haiku as your desktop

For all the people who have been following the haiku project, it is truly playing out as a viable alternative to the desktop wars with Linux. In my opinion there were only a few that could have beaten the windows dominance, one was the photonGUI and then the BeOS. Turns out the Mac has won a huge chunk of the market, while BBM is killing the photonGUI slowly but steadily....

August 28, 2012 · 1 min · 184 words · Me

Distributed transactions

Sat in on a fascinating discussion on distributed transactions, its very clear how most people seem to underestimate at what loads contention starts to happen. Have been hanging out with redis over the last couple of weeks and its obvious that you can do quite a few things with it! Good stuff antirez… Read up a couple of things http://nosqlsummer.org/paper/life-beyond-distributed-transactions http://redis.io/topics/transactions

August 22, 2012 · 1 min · 61 words · Me

Compiling B2G on ubuntu 64bit

Been working on compiling B2G aka Firefox OS on ubuntu 64bit ! There have been some hiccups along the way, but a full post coming up on that soon

August 21, 2012 · 1 min · 29 words · Me

The country and you

I was having this debate how nationalism in India is on the wane, a whole bunch of people talk about how their houses used to have the Indian flag hoisted on independence day/Republic day. Not anymore through. Its not difficult to see why and how the country is changing. I do hope we understand the point of sticking it out together as a nation, and possibly be one of the greatest ever in this phase of human civilization....

August 21, 2012 · 1 min · 85 words · Me

Python, Passenger phusion and dreamhost

Well, had to setup some stuff on dreamhost. Turns out that they are fairly bad on django hosting. Here is a working passenger_wsgi.py that is possibly much better than the default. Please not that you must have paste [http://pythonpaste.org/] installed for this to work correctly. This has python2.7 locally installed in your account, with all the libraries locally. Dreamhost is quite painful, as the documentation is incomplete clearly!

January 22, 2012 · 1 min · 68 words · Me