smr’s blog

got my own hosting space. from host.ac, its good. moved my blog to blog.smr.co.in.

this also means that i have to start from scratch (all over again) for building my page rank. you can help me on it by changing my blog url to http://blog.smr.co.in/cgi-bin/index.cgi on your blogroll or possibly add one if you dont have. my new posts will appear only on blog.smr.co.in so change the rss link to this one.

a guy is going to pay me decent money for teaching him c++ online. thats good hmm! he stumbled upon my blog and asked for a c++ guru.

24 rocks.

long time no post! no surfing either.

links -
* smr.co.in
* blank-check ipo
* Why Schools Don’t Educate
* Critticall sort
* Five excellent mind habits to develop
* Minesweeper is NP-complete!
* Programming by Coincidence

about a month back my yahoo account aguy_likeme^[1] was blocked. For violation of Geocities TOS which i didnt use from about 2 years. For once i thought not to use yahoo again, but most of my contacts were only on yahoo.

My new yahoo account is sm.ranta. Pls remove my old id and add this one.

^[1] the id aguy_likeme was inspired from Emma Bunton’s ‘A girl like me’.

todays links -
* GNU/Linux window mangaers
* About the Firefox “memory leak”
* Why I Must Write Readable Programs
* What else is burried down in the depth’s of Google’s amazing JavaScript?
* What if Microsoft Never Existed?
* Top Ten of Programming Advice to NOT follow
* C++ vs Java vs Python vs Ruby
* PG on Lisp
* 5 Things Steve Jobs Has Misled Us About In The Last 30 Years
* It’s not easy being Steve
* CEOs for $1 a year
* World’s first spam email
* Sexual Chemistry Only Lasts Two Years
* German BMW Banned From Google
* Where Did Firefox Come From?
* Bill Gates - The Road Ahead
* SSH and SCP in great details

bought the domain smr.co.in

i am now also reachable at smr [at] smr.co.in
and this blog is accessible at blog.smr.co.in

more than owning a domain.. i am feeling great about ’smr’ part of domain which was luckily available. my preference list was something like : smr.com ~ smr.us > smr.net > smr.co.in… but now smr.co.in sounds better

also got hosting space @ moved.in aka smr.moved.in, but for now will keep all my data on iiit accounts and redirect smr.co.in to research.iiit.ac.in/~smr.

whois smr.co.in

Invitation forwarded by PJN sir to me and Somu.

Looks like SGI has learned something from LOTR’s story. Their new system PRISM is based on GNU/Linux Operating systems. Its never too late . But what about IRIX… will they carry it forward ?

The siminar was mostly for marketting purpose, and didnt had any good information for me, more than know the features of their system.

But yeah they have build a huge monster which can scale upto 512 Itanium2 cpus, 16 ATI FireGL gpus, upto 6.1TB memory (its ram.OMG!!!), upto 96PCI slots. for something like US $200,000+. ref: sgi.com.

Saw a smaller version of it ( 4 cpus, lots of emtpy slots ). It was as big as a water cooler. Awesome but.

They are collecting huge amount by just assembling things. Only good thing is enabeling parallel GPUs and a big cluster of cpus. Was thinking how difficult is it to do that…

And the best part of the seminar was the ‘mutter-mushroom’ in the lunch served @ Taj Residency ( the venue ).

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I will be enjoying the Vizag yatra for next 3-4 days.