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Rocker, philosopher, Mac lover, geek, robotics freak and an optimist. These describe me adequately, i guess!

When I find time away from my lab, I love to code my robots using java to be compatible with robocode . I also make it a point to visit Slashdot or read on Wikipedia . Of course, all this has to be done while listening to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica or Pearl Jam, mostly on Shoutcast online radio .

I also like to read. Though I don’t find much time now, I generally stick to what I like, which is Ayn Rand. Let’s just hope the world heads in the right direction

2004 has been the year of the blog, and I could not be left out!

USB Booting for Bios Update

I bought some extra RAM for my machine (it has 4GB of RAM now). However, the computer would not recognize the extra RAM. So, off I went to my motherboard manufacturer’s site and looked up possible BIOS updates.
And then, the question is…how do you update your bios without a floppy disk. I did not [...]

Posted 22 June 2008 § code ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Geocaching tools in Linux

I just bought a Garmin etrex vista hcx (phew!) handheld GPS unit, in order to use for geocaching.
This post aims to address how to send geocaching information to the Garmin GPS device over USB. We will use the excellent GPSBabel tool to perform this task.
Use either apt-get or synaptic to install gps-babel on [...]

Posted 19 April 2008 § Linux ‡ Comments (3) °

Chattanooga Trip

Chattanooga Trip

Originally uploaded by venkatraghavan

I went on a trip to Chattanooga this Saturday! See the pics on Flickr by clicking on the photo

Posted 24 March 2008 § Pseudo-Random ‡ Comments (0) °

rm -rf /Facebook/me

Hi Venkat,
We have deleted your profile information and removed your email address from our login database. Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thanks,
Peter
User Operations
Facebook

I am finally off facebook. It was a easy enough process, just fill a form out and send it. Anyways, I have few friends on facebook. [...]

Posted 10 March 2008 § Linux ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ,

Ghosts

I just purchased Ghosts from Nine in Nails. Trent Reznor, the lead everything for the band released a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.
For 5$, download of high quality flac files is a good deal. I enjoyed the music, and I think it will be on my playlist quite a bit! In case you [...]

Posted 06 March 2008 § Pseudo-Random ‡ Comments (0) °