typings of a random clicker

Dabur Vatika in Somalia

lonelygeek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:01:56 +0000

Entering Hargeisia

Originally uploaded by Carl Montgomery.

Came across this photo of Somalian city, notice the Dabur & Vatika hair oil boards on the gate!!

Eclipse chasing

lonelygeek — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:03:17 +0000

It will be a different morning on 22nd July in India, as we would wake up to an eclipsed sun, with much of central india experiencing a short night. Yes!! A total solar eclipse & only first of the two in this century to be seen in India. Next one being in 2034 which is to be seen from Ladakh.

Check Eclipse details for TSE July 22nd 2009.

Also check the interactive google map for shadow path. Click on any location to see the eclipse details for that location. Blue line is the central line of totality path, places on are the best to view totality.

Main cities in totality path starting from Surat, Indore, Itarsi, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Katni, Varanasi, Sasaram, Patna, Saharsa, Darjeeling, Tawang, Dibrugarh and then passing over into China.

My plan is to see it from either Bhimbetika near Bhopal , or from Sasaram in Bihar, which ever place is to have better weather conditions (aka clear skies!).

Bhopal trip
* 18th Pune-Bhopal (Jhelum exp)
* 19th in Bhopal , catchup with local crowd
* 20th some sight seeing (bhojpur/sanchi)
* 21st recce trip to bhimbetika
* 22nd morning – observe eclipse, and leave for Pune in evening.

Bihar trip
* 18th Leave for Varanasi from Mumbai/Pune
* 20th morning reach Varanasi, Kashi Vishwanath darshan, same afternoon/evening reach Sasaram
* 21st Join AAAD group, and preparations
* 22nd morning – observe eclipse.
* 22nd afternoon – leave for Puri
* 23rd arrive in Puri, Lord Jagannath darshan
* 24th in Bhubaneswar
* 25th Take Konark exp to Pune.

Check map here to see where most Astronuts are going for eclipse.
If you have enough money to blow then maybe take the eclipse flight

Another one not to miss is Annular Solar eclipse on Jan 15th 2010 visible over Tamilnadu (Madurai, Kanyakumari, Rameshwaram).

Steamy Affair

lonelygeek — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:20:30 +0000

This was one place I had to instantly fall in love with :p

The menu

To start with only tried the safer ones – Steam idli, Rava idli, Kadhi idli (the best!). Aim to try out all items
All variety always not available. Mornings & evenings best times to eat out there.

This is on JM Road, Pune. On the left almost halfway towards Deccan stand from Balgandharv

ltnc

lonelygeek — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:02:42 +0000

Its been a while I wrote something.. finally coming to realize what work+load is.
I switched to DIY hosting at Gandi. So will take some effort in maintaining it.. than just point & click.

Thanks to having a hoodman lcd cover, I realized a little late I was shooting with no CF card!! But this still is not as bad as when I shot a roll on Vivitar 3800N without advancing the film (since I never put it in sprocket properly in first place), and missing a whole set of photos, of a memorable trek in Bhutan! My A70 did save me that time.

Gnunify’09 is on, be there if you can not to miss some learning & fun.

PLUG bookmarks are worth taking

echo “updates”

lonelygeek — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:28:55 +0000

No posts for a long while, lot of pending matters and fixing things.. one of it being moving hosting to another server so this blog will be offline for a while!
Few things to ponder on are like what next steps in IndLinux, and life in general!

Will be at foss.in next week from 26th-29th Nov (yes will be as delegate for a change . That keeps the record intact of having only participated as attendee/delegate for FOSS events this year!

more later..when blog is online again.

trip to other side of planet

lonelygeek — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:26:42 +0000

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.

X Power Tools

lonelygeek — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:21:12 +0000

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/-)

me abt 30yrs ago

lonelygeek — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:43:23 +0000

abt 30yrs ago

Down memory lane!

lonelygeek — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:11:26 +0000

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
*************************** * To Do List for IndLinux * *************************** 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!:-)

Doodhsagar waterfall

lonelygeek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:56:03 +0000

Doodhsagar waterfall

Originally uploaded by karunakarg.

Doodhsagar waterfall as seen on train route of Goa-Karnataka, this was from Goa express.