This is the second time in the last 3 months that I am moving.
This time, I am moving to some kind of a permanent place, i.e. on my personal site.
I installed Wordpress there yesterday, and it seems to be behaving quite well.
So this blog, with all it's posts, comments and links has migrated to http://ego.randomwalk.in/blog
See you there.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
New Hompage
I bought myself some web-space at http://nearlyfreespeech.net. It's one of those sites, where you pay as you use.
They provide ssh access along with the usual ftp. And they support RSync. So pretty much what I needed for hosting my minimalistic site.
However, they run FreeBSD and not Linux (/me hides from theG). I wonder if it has got something to do with the FreeBSD Jails. If I am not mistaken, even Linux has similar technologies like the OpenVZ project and Linux-VServer.
Also, I bought myself a new domain name, http://randomwalk.in (In case you've not yet noticed, that's borrowed from the name of this blog :P )
So, my new homepage is http://ego.randomwalk.in.
Do drop by sometime :)
They provide ssh access along with the usual ftp. And they support RSync. So pretty much what I needed for hosting my minimalistic site.
However, they run FreeBSD and not Linux (/me hides from theG). I wonder if it has got something to do with the FreeBSD Jails. If I am not mistaken, even Linux has similar technologies like the OpenVZ project and Linux-VServer.
Also, I bought myself a new domain name, http://randomwalk.in (In case you've not yet noticed, that's borrowed from the name of this blog :P )
So, my new homepage is http://ego.randomwalk.in.
Do drop by sometime :)
Resume, Webpage and More
I am in the process of applying to universities, like I mentioned in one of my earlier posts.
Thus, earlier this week, it suddenly struck me that I didn't have a Resume. So far I have had to prepare a Resume only once, and that was when I interviewed for the IBM Extreme Blue Internship. And even at that time, I didn't made it myself. I edited the one made by Thamie, that too when half an hour was left before the Resumes had to be sent to IBM!
Anyway, that's a story for another day.
Thus, since then I never had a up-to-date Resume at hand. Never felt the need for one.
So, earlier this week, I thought of making one, using LATEX.
Now, this is one mark-up language, I used only for writing papers and technical reports (Yeah, my previous Resume, it was made using M$-Word).
The result of my effort however, was outrageously bad. Any word doc would have easily put this Resume to shame. Thus, looking around, and found this excellent guide to writing Resumes in LATEX.
When I tried it out, the Resume came out good, except for a couple of places, where I wanted the formatting to look a bit different. At this point, I must admit, I was not (and am still not one!) an expert when it came to LATEX. I had never used environments other than simple tables, equations, and figures. So, when I looked at this class file and found so many new environments, all of them custom made for Resume writing, I was overwhelmed.
I thought, may be I should tweak a few things here and there, and I will get the formatting right. But the results were worse than my first attempt.
Hence, having no other option (No, I didn't want to use M$-Word or OpenOffice for this), I decided to learn how to write new environments , and write out a simple LATEX template, which could be understood and customized with ease.
After a night out, the final product was something that met my expectation.
At two pages, this is what it looks like:
So, if you are interested in getting a shiny new Resume for yourself, you don't have to look any further.
The LATEX template is available here.
Your new Resume will look like this.
And, those interested in viewing the template on their browser, click here.
Thus, earlier this week, it suddenly struck me that I didn't have a Resume. So far I have had to prepare a Resume only once, and that was when I interviewed for the IBM Extreme Blue Internship. And even at that time, I didn't made it myself. I edited the one made by Thamie, that too when half an hour was left before the Resumes had to be sent to IBM!
Anyway, that's a story for another day.
Thus, since then I never had a up-to-date Resume at hand. Never felt the need for one.
So, earlier this week, I thought of making one, using LATEX.
Now, this is one mark-up language, I used only for writing papers and technical reports (Yeah, my previous Resume, it was made using M$-Word).
The result of my effort however, was outrageously bad. Any word doc would have easily put this Resume to shame. Thus, looking around, and found this excellent guide to writing Resumes in LATEX.
When I tried it out, the Resume came out good, except for a couple of places, where I wanted the formatting to look a bit different. At this point, I must admit, I was not (and am still not one!) an expert when it came to LATEX. I had never used environments other than simple tables, equations, and figures. So, when I looked at this class file and found so many new environments, all of them custom made for Resume writing, I was overwhelmed.
I thought, may be I should tweak a few things here and there, and I will get the formatting right. But the results were worse than my first attempt.
Hence, having no other option (No, I didn't want to use M$-Word or OpenOffice for this), I decided to learn how to write new environments , and write out a simple LATEX template, which could be understood and customized with ease.
After a night out, the final product was something that met my expectation.
At two pages, this is what it looks like:
So, if you are interested in getting a shiny new Resume for yourself, you don't have to look any further.
The LATEX template is available here.
Your new Resume will look like this.
And, those interested in viewing the template on their browser, click here.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
State of affairs in September
It's been almost a month since my last blogpost. But no apologies. I spent time doing some really interesting things. Some of which I am going to write about now.
I started off by applying to the various universities in the United States. Yes, I have finally decided that it's time for me to look beyond what I have been working on and learn some-more, but I haven't yet made up my mind if I want to do a Ph.D yet. So thinking of MS for the time being.
My employer had a press release last Wednesday on 24th September, and the project on which I had been associated with for the past two years was chosen to be demoed. So I worked on recording the demo (I have grown apprehensive of the demo gods. They know only one set of laws formulated by this chap known as Murphy) and editing the video to add some animations (I was told that the press guys may not understand it otherwise). And I did all of this on Linux. You read that right. No Adobe Photoshop, no Windows Moviemaker, but plain good old Fedora9 with gimp and LiVES. I used gtk-recordmydesktop to record the demo. I also wrote a pyGTK tool to display the CPU-utilization when the machine was running some workload, which would also reflect the state of CPUs being offline/online and indicate the change when the state changes. I thought of using gnome-system-monitor, but sadly, it isn't aware of CPU-Hotplug.. at least not yet ;)
So yeah, I experimented with tools I had not used before and I wrote GUI code, which I never thought I would have to. And I did it not because I was really tired with CPU-Hotplug (as peterz put it :) ) but because it had to be done, and I wanted to give it a shot.
Other than that, the recent events happening in India, the blasts, the killings, the burnings, the one-sided media reports, all these made me question some of the ideas I had been holding on to for a long time now. And after spending quite a few late-nights trying to read various articles and opinions, looking beyond the conventional media, I found that there is another side of the story, which screams to be heard, but it's voice seems to have been muted more often than not in favour of the more-popular Indian-secular opinion.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat" , thus said Santayana. Most of these problems that are recurring do have an origin, a reason for their being. And to understand that, I have been doing my own little research, reading up articles and books. I am currently reading "India after Gandhi" by Ramachandra Guha. I found the book really interesting. Plain facts, neither too preachy, nor too dull. Also, it showered light upon quite a few things that I had not known about before like the Naga Revolution, the existence of a party known as Jana Sangh which was the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the importance of Sardar Patel's role post-independence, a defence minister known as V K Krishna Menon and how the daughter rose.
Thus , September has been quite different that way.
Only time will tell what October has to say.
I started off by applying to the various universities in the United States. Yes, I have finally decided that it's time for me to look beyond what I have been working on and learn some-more, but I haven't yet made up my mind if I want to do a Ph.D yet. So thinking of MS for the time being.
My employer had a press release last Wednesday on 24th September, and the project on which I had been associated with for the past two years was chosen to be demoed. So I worked on recording the demo (I have grown apprehensive of the demo gods. They know only one set of laws formulated by this chap known as Murphy) and editing the video to add some animations (I was told that the press guys may not understand it otherwise). And I did all of this on Linux. You read that right. No Adobe Photoshop, no Windows Moviemaker, but plain good old Fedora9 with gimp and LiVES. I used gtk-recordmydesktop to record the demo. I also wrote a pyGTK tool to display the CPU-utilization when the machine was running some workload, which would also reflect the state of CPUs being offline/online and indicate the change when the state changes. I thought of using gnome-system-monitor, but sadly, it isn't aware of CPU-Hotplug.. at least not yet ;)
So yeah, I experimented with tools I had not used before and I wrote GUI code, which I never thought I would have to. And I did it not because I was really tired with CPU-Hotplug (as peterz put it :) ) but because it had to be done, and I wanted to give it a shot.
Other than that, the recent events happening in India, the blasts, the killings, the burnings, the one-sided media reports, all these made me question some of the ideas I had been holding on to for a long time now. And after spending quite a few late-nights trying to read various articles and opinions, looking beyond the conventional media, I found that there is another side of the story, which screams to be heard, but it's voice seems to have been muted more often than not in favour of the more-popular Indian-secular opinion.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat" , thus said Santayana. Most of these problems that are recurring do have an origin, a reason for their being. And to understand that, I have been doing my own little research, reading up articles and books. I am currently reading "India after Gandhi" by Ramachandra Guha. I found the book really interesting. Plain facts, neither too preachy, nor too dull. Also, it showered light upon quite a few things that I had not known about before like the Naga Revolution, the existence of a party known as Jana Sangh which was the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the importance of Sardar Patel's role post-independence, a defence minister known as V K Krishna Menon and how the daughter rose.
Thus , September has been quite different that way.
Only time will tell what October has to say.
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