Sharma Family Journal

Looking for QEMU OS X Binaries? Other sites seem to be carrying older versions of the binaries. Project Q looks interesting.

It's a significant enough event in computing to merit its own wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git

Here's some criticism of the idea (it sounds like this was repeated many times by different people):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2005-04/msg00237.html

Drop me a line if you find interesting rebuttals of this argument (I've read Linus's own)

I was looking around for a version of emacs that supports good anti-aliased fonts that are easy on the eyes. Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck finding one.

In the meanwhile, gvim/X11 seems to be working very nicely and coupled with taglist makes a formidable competition for emacs.

But I wonder why vim had to invent it's own scripting language instead of using something like python.

Finally, some technical criticism of a Sun engineer about what he thinks is wrong with Linux.

Mentions FreeBSD in passing, but doesn't explore it too much.

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eschrock/20040921

Among all the releases so far from the mozilla project, this one looks very promising. Go grab it from http://mozilla.org/

And don't forget to grab the voting plugin, which has just been updated for this version:

http://www.sharma-home.net/software/vote/vote.html

The total votes cast crossed hundred recently. I also added this script to list all votes ever cast.
http://www.sharma-home.net/cgi-bin/show-all.py

You've probably noticed the “Most Viewed Stories” on Yahoo or your favorite new site. Now, imagine if there was a way to do it across the whole web!

This is precisely what I tried to do a few weeks back. To get some attention, I made a posting to some newsgroups.

It seems to have gotten mentioned in a couple of low profile new sites such as this and this one as well.

I think the idea has a good potential to be a starting point for web crawlers as well. But need to market it some more. Ideas ?

Recently there have been a lot of articles in the press about the anticipatory I/O scheduler in Linux. But I've seen very little credit given to people who proposed it first. I had to find out about this from a BSD mailing list.

Example article:

New Linux Speed Trick

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&e=2&u=/nf/20040405/tc_nf/23603

Original SOSP paper and FreeBSD implementation:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/r/antsched/

A nasty disk crash sent sharma-home.net back to Dec 2002, losing most of the data created in 2003. It taught me some important lessons in data back up. Fortunately, the disk was under warranty, so I got a new one.

Configuring all the services to the same state as before is very time consuming, but it also gave me an opportunity to be more disciplined in building a server.

Happy new year!

I found a better WikiWikiWeb tool this weekend. It's called MoinMoin and it provides a rich feature set as well as search capability.