Testing the mail to blog feature again

In the past there have been lot of formatting problems with the mail
to blog feature of blogger.com.
Recently they have shifted to new version and come out of BETA
stage.... so i am testing it again to see thats the deal this time.

Blog reader ship

I use to think most of the hits i get to this blog are just search engines trying to index it, it was true for quite some time, besides few friends and family nobody use to read this. But when i did a check on my log file today. To my surprise i found there are now a lot of incoming hits from, guess what? people using the search engines. Too many entries now list google.coxxx as their referring page. And add to it yahoo and msn search. Many people are just trying to find info on linux kernel and other stuff, others actually have search queries like GPL and free fonts (both relevant to couple of blog entries).

Quite nice, may be i should start putting some real useful info here than just a clobber of my thoughts. Or may be not.

New MacBook

I have just acquired a new macbook.
So far i am loving its interface and the overall slickness.

The most key parts i am really happy for

1. Really comfortable keyboard.
2. Excellent suspend and resume (ram / harddisk ).
3. Cool dashboard (even if practically i am yet to find real use
other than world clock).

Bad things so far
1. Volume on inbuilt speaker is just tooooooo lllooowwww.. mostly
unusable for anything more than an incoming email notification.

KScope Source Editor

This is something i was looking for for long time now.
Just too good to browse that nasty long kernel code.
just give it a try you will love it...
Especially the call graph feature.

http://kscope.sf.net

I am married ....

OK its been a real while since i blogged.... don't get as much time and as much interesting stuff... getting married did have a lot to do with that.

But today finally i discovered something worth blogging about again.

So comes my next post.

The restaurant at the end of the univeres

This is just an off hook thought that came to mind when i was reciting
(:)) "The Brief History of Time" the other day.

Every religion in the world, any spiritual concept has a common agenda
on its tables. At the very heart of the concept lies a desire to find
a everlasting peace, and stability. An ambition, (may be that's a
wrong word, does quest suit you?) to find something that you can rely
on that goes on for ever in this ever changing evil world. An opposite
of materialism, something that doesn't perish with time or space. A
good quest i must add, i almost would be trying to find the same.

Only if i didn't know better :D

The basic conflict comes to my mind is, in finding such an answer to
life or for sake of argument call it a theory of life, there exists a
fundamental assumption that nature of time itself doesn't change. That
is if we are able to find some thing or theory or an entity that
doesn't change with time, that we can rely on forever, the religions
take a sigh of relief. They say our way of life will give you peace,
they say if you follow the code of conduct the generations to come
will live in peace and tranquility forever.

But where it fails is the point put to rest around 100 years ago by a
young clerk in swedish patent office. The very fact that the time is
not absolute, it indeed has a beginning _and_ it can have an _end_
means that the very fundamentals of a concept of spirit, something
that doesn't change with time are false. cause time itself can no
longer be depended upon. even the laws of physics as we know them will
get destroyed beyond singularity, that the time is a property of this
universe only. that any supernatural being named god can not help it,
in fact if there was a creater of this world then he took grate pains
to make it so that the concept of eternal being is false inside this
world.

Well .... phew !!!! at least i know where i am having my lunch today,
and just in case as plan B MacDs have started delivery in our area.

--
BAIN / अभिज़ित
http://abhijit.adotout.net

Defeating GPL

I just thought of a way to release a proprietary software using a GPLed code.

Assumption: GPL says you can not put more restrictions to the user than GPL already imposes...But says nothing about giving users more rights than GPL

Here is how to do it

1. Devise a license saying giving all rights granted under the GPL _and_ a right to give up the previous rights :DDD

2. Make a customer give up his right first.

3. Then distribute the software to him is binary only form.

4. Profit........

Gnuinfy 06

Some pictures of me giving talk at gnunify 2006

Boy i look ugly :D

Missed Calls record

This is my birthday and today morning was the highest number of missed calls i
got while i was sleeping

12 missed calls and 6 sms pending while i was sleeping to the glory today
morning.

Intuition

After reading aditya's post

http://adityag.livejournal.com/12892.html

i went on to thinking more....

The human mind ; physical brain + not so physical 'soul' is a particularly
crazy design.
I have often tried to model the same by trying to duplicate the
external behavioral characteristics and mapping them onto known patterns...
e.g. trying to explain unconscious intuitions by having a subroutine to
compare previously successful strategies with a current one etc.

But recently (may be a year or so ) i have been making a rather personal
breakthrough in my approach towards theory of human 'soul'.

Here it goes : It doesn't exist.... :D,instead what exists are millions and
zillions of small tiny little 'soulets'. Each specialized in a one task and
one task only. When we are born these soulets are totally uninitialized.
Each soulet is responsible for nothing in particular. They are just a chaotic
group of tiny little confused beings. Each individual soulet has only one
goal, to survive. And the survival of a human being depends on number of
soulets surviving, and in a reverse way a survival of the soulet depends on
of how many times it helped the human being to survive.

Another property of these soulets is that these have different sensors.
Some can sense temperature data, some blood chemical compositions, some just
have a universal sensor(donno what that is just a concept) etc etc.

So the soulet has three basic states:
1. NILL state: its a confused state.... it doesn't know how to survive yet. it
cant help a human to survive, it tells human always 0 on any question asked.
2. Helping state: it has observed a phenomenon and can now tell the human 1,0
or -1;
3. dead : it stops answering a human.

now at birth we simply don't know anything. soulets vote always 0 and if the
human gets no damage all of them get a soulet credit on their account.
Now a each soulet is recording its sensor data each time it votes.
so a survival marks association with the current data.
Now when in the lifetime a soulet encounters a data different than the data
previously associated for survival it votes -1.
the human sees how many soulets go for a particular choice and how many won't
and decides accordingly..if the human takes a damage the soulet agreeing with
the choice is killed. Otherwise the ones that don't agree die.

Now this may seem like all soulets will die eventually ... but it won't be so.
with sufficiently large number of soulets and sufficiently large number of
types of sensors a soulet can have, the chances that a human will take no
damage are roughly same as the ones that it will take damage. And given that
some help is always given to the human by other people in its infancy, i.e.
an environment is made such that the randomized decisions will lead to a
survival of the human, the soulet with the wrong associations will start
dying faster than the right ones.

With this the basic design is complete. I won't go into too much details but
it can be statistically shown that such being will closely follow the
characteristics of intuition, consciousness and unconscious processing.
(may be i will put the actual numbers up sometime.)

Now comes the best part.... These soulets aren't exactly same physical
entities.
It can be a neuron in your brain or a gland in you mouth, or a carefully
balanced mixture of chemicals in you blood stream.
Even an equation representing your height to weight ratio can be a soulet.
The more the number the more the model fits to reality.

Ok i am too numb by thinking all this. May be i will follow up in few
days .........................

Back to pavilion

I am switching back to the blogger.com, i just couldn't find a livejournal
theme that i liked plus blogger's feature of letting you modify the
stylesheet was a rather neat.

Cheera

A ray of light in the dark US patents nightmare

"Open-source Overhauls Patent System"

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/technology/10blue.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/10/1717224&tid=155&tid=136&tid=103&tid=106&tid=218

I hope this develops into something meaningfull........