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Loins of Punjab

admin — 2008-09-03T11:26:34GMT-08:00

This looks like a really good movie .. the music video is hilarious!

http://uberdesi.com/blog/2008/09/03/make-way-for-the-loins/

I also saw a pretty interesting off-beat Bollywood movie the other day called 'Summer 2007' which was also kind of interesting. Not the usual crap .. it did have songs though :(

http://ww.smashits.com/news/bollywood/movie-review/6742/summer-2007.html

Smallest PC in the world

admin — 2008-08-27T10:07:37GMT-08:00

neat article about the smallest PC in the world running Redhat Linux:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/27/a-real-space-oddity-arrives-at-pc-pro/

embedded devices are pretty amazing. Here's a list of linux'ey things:

http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4936596231.html

An exploding case of mangoes

admin — 2008-08-21T11:01:27GMT-08:00

Read a really interesting book from a Pakistani writer based in London about the plane crash that killed General Zia back in the 80s. A good read!

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Exploding-Mangoes-Mohammed-Hanif/dp/0307268071/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219345213&sr=8-1

Testing on IE/Linux

admin — 2008-08-07T14:13:23GMT-08:00

Since the majority of the browsers out there are IE it leads to some interesting problems for us devs to make sure that everything works as advertised. Some solutions I have found:

install different versions of IE on linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
the brute force approach: install VirtualBOX and Windoze for the real deal. Make sure you got loads of RAM and disk apce.

Free Lunch

admin — 2008-06-18T16:15:40GMT-08:00

Read an interesting book lately called Free Lunch. It's basically a critique of government policies which enable the rich to get more breaks then the poor. Since I kind of fall in the middle there I can't complain too much I suppose :)

Still, some eye openers in there though … good read!

good movie: amu

admin — 2008-06-06T12:39:17GMT-08:00

saw a really good indian movie the other day. Not the typical bollywood crap. recommended!

http://www.amuthefilm.com/home.html

Book Review: Punjabi Century

admin — 2008-05-28T14:53:33GMT-08:00

I had been browsing around the online SPL catalog looking for books to read about Punjab or northern India. I found a really interesting book that I enjoyed reading immensely called 'Punjabi Century'. It was basically a sort of a social/cultural historical narrative on life in the Punjab before partition from the perspective of a person who was born and grew up there. A very interesting read!

Michael Jackson + Bhangra == wow!

admin — 2008-05-21T13:30:53GMT-08:00

This video is just friggin hilarious! enjoy =)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IG7ErbtZr4s

flash on pocketpc

admin — 2008-05-15T14:26:03GMT-08:00

I've ripped a couple of movies to watch on my PPC-6800 from sprint recently. The TCPMP player works great with a lot of different a/v codecs.

A couple of good linux tools are transcode and mencoder to encode a/v from and to various resolutions and codecs. There's a decent GUI called Acidrip ( among others) which appears to work rather well.

Did you know Tivo has a hiden web server built into it?

There is a plugin to TCPMP which lets it play flash files directly also. This saves re-encoding them from flash into other formats. Works great :)

Brother printers - awesome linux support!

admin — 2008-05-09T21:54:49GMT-08:00

I mostly work on linux/BSD boxes so I've been looking for a printer with decent support for linux. HP installed like 2 gigs worth of software .. 2 gigs?! I shudder to think what all it did install. Both Epson and Canon didn't have any support for linux from what I could tell. I could try and buy one and see if the built-in drivers that come with linux support them but then I came across the solution - Brother.

Decently priced all-in-one printers with awesome support for Linux:

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html

and they work as advertised. Scanner, fax, printer - all work under Linux .. installed without a hitch. amazing!

So if you're a linux user looking for a decent printer - I would highly recommend Brother!