October 3, 2008 at 11:56 pm
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After a failed mexican attempt, I leave tomorrow morning to the other side of planet, ie USofA. Would be spending a week in Mountain View, then couple of weeks in San Francisco. Apart from work, only thing on mind is getting a telescope (with EQ mount).
I should be back into a stable mode only until a month from now.
The TZ difference would keep few things out of sync.
For Indic Folks: If any ideas/plans for foss.in then add here here . Since I wont be able to follow up much on things in time, someone please take call on what could be done.
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September 18, 2008 at 1:51 am
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Came across this book.. perhaps comes a little too late.. but I guess it wouldnt have come earlier anyways considering the X Window System history.
Quite good read, to finally get X configuration right, use its potential well, use desktop to its full.
(Indian edition for 260/-)
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August 19, 2008 at 11:13 pm
· Filed under Personal, photography
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August 18, 2008 at 11:41 pm
· Filed under IndLinux, Personal
After long time, happened to check my geocities account (thankfully much of content remains), and found lot of hidden gems! Like my first resume!
And another one of historical importance, when I joined FreeOS.com to start working on IndLinux fulltime… my first todo list I presented on work to be done! Definetly a gross under-estimation of the volume of task!!
Its been 8yrs now and was really long journey….And #1 is not done yet! Rest is more or less achieved (status - not uptodate)
A more detailed time line here
From Indlinux-todo.txt
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* To Do List for IndLinux *
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Ver - 0.01
dated - 20/6/2000
Author(s) - G Karunakar , karunakarg@hotmail.com
This document outlines the tasks for the IndLinux project & their
proposed deadlines.
1) Prepare a draft of Indian-Language-HOWTO 1W
& finalize it (ver 1.0) 3W
2) Start translation teams for different Languages 1M
3) Study of Pango project 2W
4) Enable Pango for Indian Languages 3M
5) Evolve a standard for IL in Linux
i.e. codepages, charsets, file formats etc. 1M
6) Start the UI project
UI proj. will design/aquire fonts, icons ,graphics
sounds, desktop themes etc. 1M
7) Study of enabling of Mozilla for IL. 1M
Create prototype of Netscape in IL. (Hindi first) 3M
9) Release a package/rpm & scripts which will enable
any linux box for IL. 3M
10) Next PCQ Linux dist. will contain all the above ??? 3M+
11) Future !!! 6M+
Notes:
IL - Indian Language(s)
UI - User Interface
W - Week(s)
M - Month(s)
Time indicated is absolute from date of document.
Suggestions & criticism are welcome!:-)
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August 14, 2008 at 2:26 am
· Filed under Shot of the day, Travel, photography
Doodhsagar waterfall
Originally uploaded by karunakarg.
Doodhsagar waterfall as seen on train route of Goa-Karnataka, this was from Goa express.
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July 19, 2008 at 9:59 am
· Filed under Travel, fun
visited 18 states (51.4%)
World map
visited 7 states (3.11%)
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June 25, 2008 at 12:44 am
· Filed under Travel, fun, photography
Ever since I read about it couple of years back, I wished to make the Kangra Valley narrow gauge trip. Also with the aim to complete all Hill trains.. Trips done till now
Neral - Matheran
Shimla - Kalka
Pathankot - Baijnath Paprola
Next in target Ooty & Darjeeling hill trains.
KVR is the longest route of all, 164kms from Pathankot till Jogindernagar reaching peak altitude of 1210m. For the first 50kms it runs fast enough covering the distance in couple of hours, with halts extra, then gradually ascending, until Kangra and coming closer to Dhauladhar range, then a steeper ascent upto Palampur, Baijnath with highest point at Ajhu - 1210m (near Bir), then descending down to Jogindernagar at 1139m.
Photo set on flickr
More on this in a photo blog post 
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May 11, 2008 at 11:51 pm
· Filed under FOSS
corollary from prev post… debian testing/unstable dont go well with dialup! time to get BB.
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May 7, 2008 at 11:34 pm
· Filed under FOSS
to my utter surprise found that Debian lenny DVD-1 didnt have wvdial on it! 
one explaination by kart_ was that most debian folks use something better than dialup.. so wvdial probably went out of the priority!
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April 29, 2008 at 1:24 am
· Filed under tech
havent posted nything for long while, but couldnt resist this 
Now I have a desktop (AMD X2 5600+, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 17″ LG flatron, DVDRW, Kubuntu KDE4). Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 didnt look too great, or until I figure out how to get around the Suse style interface! Anyways stop gap arrangement, untill I manage to get Lenny amd64 dvd.
Main use is managing photos & doing builds.
Other two in picture - my 3.4yr old Dell Inspiron 510m (Centrino 1.6Ghz, 768MB, 120GB, Etch) and office T60 (C2D 1.83Ghz, 1GB, 60GB, Lenny).
More to get, proper computer table, a UPS and maybe a switch!
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