Its almost midnight I am surfing the ebay.in listings. To my surprise I found this page shows me that I logged in as viper something. I don't know if there are any security issues with ebay India site authentication system. Could someone enlighten me ?.
Checked again this morning, same issues. No good , no good at all
Please welcome the new guest blogger Ammayee and she writes about the trials of being a mother of a monster child called 'me'.
I am a woman and mother of two grown-up children, I am proud of it and I owe it to my father who believed that educating a girl child was important in the days when women's education was considered to be no good. Now I teach and inspire my students about the importance of getting an education and earning a better livelihood for themselves and their offspring. Indeed an educated mother would educate her children and contribute back to the society in more ways than a father.
I grew up in a large joint family , always surrounded by five younger siblings and half a dozen rowdy cousins, loving grandparents , many aunts, uncles and endless flow of relatives visiting our house in the village.
We learnt the joy of sharing and values naturally, by the time I had my first child times had indeed changed, my first child grew up with his heap of story books and comics while I was out working. The joint family system had long disappeared. But at the end of the day, despite my tiredness I made sure that the my child never felt for the loss of my company. Perhaps this made an impression on children's personality, making them lovable and responsible. Do you think that an ayaa (house maid) would have done a better job?. Perhaps she might look after the children but no one can replace the role of mother.
Education is important, but not at the cost of one's childhood. The other days I visited a doctor who kept on insisting that his 9 year old child is not doing enough (that is to satisfy his parents desires). After two hours of tennis practice and five hours of school and a hour of Abacus training, he wants the poor child to attend some classes to improve his English language. This sounds absurd to me and that too coming from such an educated parent and a doctor who should know the importance of happy and stress free childhood. As a teacher this is story all around and makes me wonder if the meaning of 'Education' has taken a totally different shape altogether. I feel that I must have failed as a teacher somewhere.
As a mother, I was the best friend to my younger child and her hoards of friends who tagged along. Even today after she left for her college studies aboard I would get stopped sometimes on my way to work by her friends who say 'Aunt, we missing polishing off your chicken curry'. Ask yourself whether you are a guide and counsellor to your children and remember this the true education is imparted by you as a mother. I would love to her your motherhood experiences, Please do share them here !.
TV and Radio audience don't want to be a passive consumers of airwaves no more, its not lost on the some media companies. They are exploring new technology to bring their audience together online. The Drupal the free software content management system(CMS) seems to be the new favourite of the media companies, they are using its reliability and rich features set to create digital communities.
Radar Cultura from Brazil, South America was featured recently on Beeb's Digital Planet
RadarCultura believes in the benefits of the usage of free technology and information. It is developed on Drupal mainframe and licenses its content by Creative Commons. All the material published may be used and distributed for free, except for commercial initiatives.
Closer home, NewsX the Indian television news channel (no relation to the famous TV show about paranormal) uses drupal to provide users customized news.
PS: Guess, its a good idea to add these sites to the Drupal Case studies page
Audio/Video production is no longer done solely by the trained media professionals, even the ordinary folks with a computer and Free Software tools like Open Movie Editor and a cheap camera produce and publish content on wikis, forums, blogs and social networking sites like Friends Reunited, Facebook and eBay
If you are interested to join the new media wave, you should head to this one day Multimedia workshop at Sarai, CSDS New Delhi. The event is organised by G.I.S.S. project , ILUG-D, Freed.in and Sarai,CSDS on 11 Oct 2008
We will start at 11am, and continue till about 6-7pm, depending on the level of interest. Food, snakes, and chai will be provided.
Presentations by Yves from the G.I.S.S. collective:
Other potential topics, from Niyam Bhushan's list in the multimedia section here:
My 11 month-old niece Guna takes liking to my Learning GNU Emacs book. Took few quick shots with my mobile phone, reminds me of Tim Pietzcker's Youngest "Learning Python" Fan post on O'Reilly way back in 2004.
Blog Action Day 08 is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
DATE: 18th October 2008
VENUE: Atria Hotel Palace road, Bangalore
The Tutorial aims at increasing the technical excellence of programmers in
defining technologies in free software domain. This is targeted at
programmers in the industry and engineering students.
Schedule:
18th October, 2008
08.30 AM Registration
09.00AM Inauguration and talk by IEEE Bangalore Section
09.30AM Basics of Gnu/Linux Programming & Tools
1.Simple C Programs
2.Simple Makefiles
3.Gcc, stace, Itrace, gdb, objdump, nm, LD_PRELOAD
4.Quick overview of a typical hardware on which Gnu/Linux runs (CPU,
Memory, Interrupt controller, IO Bus etc)
5.Overview the Gnu/Linux Kernel
• Kernel Layout
• Coding Style
• Important Subsystems
• Kernel configuration
6.Building and booting a new kernel
EXERCISE
10.30 AM: Tea
10.45AM Gnu/Linux Kernel Internals – An Overview
• Process and threads
• Memory management
• File systems
• Interrupts and exceptions & System Calls
• Kernel Synchronization
• EXERCISE
1.00 PM: Lunch
2.00PM Device Drivers
• Kernel Module programming
• Char and block drivers
• Ioctls
• Writing simple char device driver
EXERCISE
3.15 PM: Tea
3.30 PM Kernel Debugging
• Printk
• Dynamic instrumentation techniques
• System Tap [EXERCISE]
• Kerec/kdump/ crash analysis
EXERCISE
5.00 PM Free software philosophy
• Introduction to the open source community
• How to contribute
• New exciting areas of work in the kernel
5.30 PM: Conclusion
Pre requisites
It is expected that all participants will have:
• Basic knowledge of operating Systems
• Good working knowledge of C
• Hands-on experience desirable
• Kernel programming experience is a bonus
• Basic scripting knowledge (ex: shell scripts)
• Working knowledge of Gnu/Linux
Resource Persons
Arun Krishnan, Huawei Technologies India.
Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Linux Technology Centre, IBM India
Balbir Singh, Linux Technology Centre, IBM India
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli, Linux Technology Centre, IBM India
Sachin Sant, Linux Technology Centre, IBM India
Ankita Garg, Linux Technology Centre, IBM India
Course Fee per participant
Non-member: Rs. 1200/-; Student Rs. 600/-
IEEE member Rs. 1000/- ; IEEE Student member Rs. 500/-
The course fee includes tutorial kit, inter session tea and lunch.
Organizing Committee
M. M. Babu Narayanan, IEEE Bangalore Section
Hitesh Mehta, IEEE Bangalore Section
Ravikiran. A, IEEE Bangalore Section
Dr. Debabrata Das, IEEE Bangalore Section
Dr. T. Srinivas, IEEE Bangalore Section
Please send your registration to:
Mr. M.M. Babu Narayanan
Chair – Professional Activities
IEEE Bangalore Section
Central Power Research Institute
Sir C.V. Raman road
PB No. 8066, Sadashivanagar PO,
Bangalore – 560 080
Telefax : 23605367
Email: babu@cpri.in
