Month: July 2014
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A Smartphone in ₹2000 – What is Firefox OS?
Mozilla is all set to sell Firefox OS smartphones that costs $25 (~₹1500) in India. Who is Mozilla? Mozilla is to Internet what WHO is to world’s health. Mozilla is a community of “Mozillians” from all over the globe with a common mission – to build a better internet. Most of us know Mozilla as…
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Organzing a fest
The work on saMMsCRIthi ’14 started already. The website is here: saMMsCRIthi.in The facebook page: fb.com/saMMsCRIthi The twitter profile: twitter.com/saMMsCRIthi Sponsorship committees are starting their work. We, Malayalis are going to all the hotels and restaurants. It was a good start today.
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How and Why To Switch to Zsh from Bash
Ubuntu comes with Bash as its default “shell”. So, when you’re running `gnome-terminal` (the default terminal emulator) it actually sends the commands to ‘/bin/bash’ which interprets your command and displays output. What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal? Zsh is an improvement on bash. It adds more functionality, and better ways of doing…
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One Day Discussion on Developing Curriculum for Masters in Human Rights in Mental Health
Introduction Dr Narendra about Dr Vijayaraghavan about child psychiatry Dr Krishnaprasad talked about his interest in providing affordable child mental health. Dr Muralikrishna about his interest in old age mental health. Dr Sumanth about Diabetes, Hypertension, Chronic Diseases. Dr Manjunath about education in general, and medical education in particular. Prof Niranjan, from University of Mysore,…
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Looking Back
Today I went through some of the first posts in this blog. I do not think I have changed a lot. But a lot of things have changed. Curiosity has given way to boredom. Anxieties have dissolved into indifference. And the way I look at people has become more sceptical than the optimistic it was.…
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A Eulogy to Orkut and an Introduction to the Importance of Social Networks
“Orkut is dead. Facebook murdered it” – read the name of a facebook page which had millions of likes around the time I started using facebook. If we can fall in love with social networks, Orkut was my first love. And like all firsts, Orkut was very special to me. Everyone on Orkut had a…