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Introducing Samiha Zainab

1 hour (seemed lot more than that) nervously waiting outside the operation theater.

35 calls.

7 days of leave.

All the work in a mess.

New 185 unread emails.

Introducing my cute little daughter Syeda Samiha Zainab.


The change called Lenny

Recently I upgraded my Debian Etch to Lenny. Needless to say I love it. The whole process couldn’t have been smoother.

From kernel image to the clear and glassy icons every thing is improved.

You can check the official Debian Lenny release page for the complete documentation on how to upgrade.

Or directly check the upgrade steps here [...]


Balbir, Thanks for everything and good luck!

We’ll miss Dr.Balbir Thomas who is leaving our organization Brainwave Corporation this month.

We enjoyed your company, every thing from local Paan to full blown heated arguments on theology (we agree to disagree), algorithms, programming, and of course the much appreciated, and informative technical discussions.

Here is a a typical B.Thomas (Computer Science, University Professor) for the [...]


2 Terabytes on a memory card

At the 2009 International CES the next-generation SD memory card — SDXC — specification was announced and yes the capacity is 2 TB, now thats what I call storage, I think we are going to see a lot of CD’s trashed out? SD interface read/write speeds will cross to 104 MB per second in this [...]