Nishanth' tech rambles

Got this new fad about installing debian with winxp on my laptop. config is a Dell Inspiron 9300 with 1gig RAM, 80 Gig HDD wireless, bluetooth et.al. Kinda guess that the ubuntu version is easier to install, had already downloaded ubuntu and burnt on a dvd, but kinda thinking that it might be fun with debian.. target is : 1. all hardware systems up and running - a. including all the special keys+ b. wireless lan+ c. bluetooth so that i. i can use the bluetooth headset (logitech). hmm.. d. and also get my logitech joystick e. mousy all working and f. my creative webcam.. :) g. mah pharos GPS hardware (I got it with microsoft streets and trips.. kinda interesting to have the microsoft logoed hardware work with linux.. just for the kicks..) 2. S/w a. chat clients (basic guys I exist on) - i. yahoo-with good ol video ii. gmail - with audio iii. msn iv. skype b. voice recognition and tts (Text To speech - not adding any 'i's inbetween u sickheads... :) ) c. office s/w (dont wanna do...

guess lots of people are... here is a blog from bandicoot(LJ) on the same: http://www.livejournal.com/users/bandicoot/2005/03/23/ Why am *I* Tired of the same?of some time, I have been using sharpreader a neat feed agregator with nice simple interface.( http://www.sharpreader.net/ - another result of looking for a free opensource stuff - not quite.. but I love it KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid interface)1. I am sick of things poping up when i am trying to concentrate on something to do2. I think news reading has to do with being relaxing, and reading the terse messages kinda bogs me down3. when I do get the time, I see large chunks of news left for me to read... aieeee..... Kernel panic... ctrl+a shift delete...4. even if do read.. cnet duplicates wired duplicates el register duplicate slashdot duplicates every other darn things... arrrgghh...so i am back to good ol favourites and reading my fav http://slashdot.org/ , http://wired.com/ , ars technica.. bbc and other normal stuff...Gee.....

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/MathematicalHumor.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke so i guess the topic is mathematics!!!

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=271 har har... does not speak of the times when the hardware refuses to bahave to oneself (bah...) and then in the drudgery of mistakes stamp on ur own foot and wonder why am i not moving..... then throw the mouse around and wonder why am i getting angry.... boy they never speak of those stuff in any coding books!!!!

Holla world... This article: http://news.com.com/Solectron+expands+in+Mexican+Silicon+Valley/2110-1014_3-5918326.html?part=rss&tag=5918326&subj=news set me off thinking... as to why is mexico a better place to have one's business than asia.. timezones being one... as in my nice asian friend's opinion " they cannot challenge the intellectual capability of asians". that is the biggest bull i have ever heard.. NO. they are at the very least as capable as asians - but then so are the rest of the world... keeping that factor aside.. Asia should market a 24/7 support capability - in the sense that during american daytime it is americans working and during american night it is asians working... compared to same timezone of mexicans... kinda feel if this means - asians are supplementary to American Labor Vs.. Mexicans will be complimentary to American Labor??? One wonders....till then adios amigos... bye the way... i got some amount of mexican friends.. and they are ...

Boy... i did not know Nicolas Pitre was visually challenged!! My heart felt admiration abt him... http://www.cam.org/~nico/cv.en.html .. wow!! impressed!!!check this out: http://kerneltrap.org/node/444/print http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/filter-syslog/docs.html )

Bluetooth is good... i just managed to use my Windows XP PC to download ringtones to my cellphones.. initialy thought it was gonna be a difficult process.. but it turned out to be relatively simple.. http://free.ringtonejungle.com/index.php contains the ring tones i uploaded to my cell.. there are two things that you need to download to a cellphone1. bluetooth connectivity on the cell2. bluetooth file transfer agent on the laptop.my dell inspiron 9300 comes with a toshiba bluetooth card with a toshiba s/w stack.. so used the file transfer agent in it to download my motorola v330 had settings->connectivity->bluetooth->setup->FindMe and then u have 60 seconds to detect the cell from the laptop.rest is easy.. and the transfer speads are also decent - almost serial port transfer rates..