Category: General

Jan05

Back into the grind

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 05/Jan/2011  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

December 2010 was a crazy month. Extremely hectic, exceptionally busy. But I spent all that time doing stuff that was neither desirable nor pleasant. We had a bereavement in the family followed by me being put into jury duty to be interrupted by a fairly… more »
Jul01

Spammers yo!

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 01/Jul/2010  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

Seven hundred comment spam posts to my blog in the last 24 hours! ZOMGWTF!! - KB more »
Jun06

CentOS IA64 interest group meeting on IRC

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 06/Jun/2010  ~  Posted in: General, Linux  ~  1 feedback »

So when almost everyone had given up on IA64, it looks like there are a few people around who are still running this kit! And quite keen on getting it usable with CentOS. To that aim, I've restarted the IA64 builds and am inviting everyone interested in… more »
Dec24

Happy Holidays

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 24/Dec/2009  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

Have a good holiday season everyone! 2009 has been a great year on many fronts. I am sure 2010 will be better. - KB more »
Dec23

new blog skin

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 23/Dec/2009  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

Just to change things around a bit, new blog skin! - KB more »
Dec06

online on IRC

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 06/Dec/2009  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

I use a proxy to get onto irc, which is good since I can get online from anywhere and do so over mostly a secure link. Another advantage of doing it this way is that my nickname is always online on irc and people can leave msgs or followup on conversatio… more »
Dec02

Not another name change.

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 02/Dec/2009  ~  Posted in: General, Open Source  ~  Send feedback »

So, initially it was just a bunch of websites, it then became a part of Andover.net - soon to be merged with valinux. That went on for a bit before they changed over to being 'Open Source Developers Network (OSDN)', to only change over to being called '… more »
Sep22

The Windows haunting: go Linux!

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 22/Sep/2009  ~  Posted in: General  ~  2 feedbacks »

I wonder if the last 6 - 7 years of Linux ( almost 5 of that exclusively Linux ) has taken away some of the memories of pain that we all went through in the Windows years. Just the other day I saw someone going through an hour long session of suffering w… more »
Sep15

collaborative mind mapping

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 15/Sep/2009  ~  Posted in: General, Linux, Software  ~  7 feedbacks »

I've been looking into the idea of collaborative mind mapping. Think wiki, but in a mind map. The aim being to create a knowledge pool around some very specific areas, that multiple people could contribute into. Specially areas where there might be a lot… more »
May28

A new look

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 28/May/2009  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

People complained, quite rightly so, that a few of my posts on the blog were not really clear with the content being cut off from the right edge etc. So, I've just replaced the skin with something that is more fluid and should expand to the width of the… more »
Nov12

Now twittering

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 12/Nov/2008  ~  Posted in: General, Linux  ~  1 feedback »

I might be the last person on this planet to join twitter, but sign up I have. And my username there is *drumroll* CentOS *drumroll*. And since people who read my blog might actually want to follow whats on there, here is a link to the feed CentOS on twi… more »
Aug06

back in town

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 06/Aug/2008  ~  Posted in: General  ~  1 feedback »

I'm back in London now and slowly getting back into the swing of things. - KB more »
Apr18

my head hurts

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 18/Apr/2008  ~  Posted in: General  ~  1 feedback »

Hi, If you have sent me email or trying to contact me over the last couple of days and not had a response, I will get in touch with your shortly. I've been quite unwell and am recovering. The plan is to be back in action full time, sometime early next… more »
Feb09

back

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 09/Feb/2008  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

I am back in London, but really tired. Think I might sleep a bit. also, Virgin Atlantic is a terrible airline to fly with. If you ever get a choice, take the other airline since clearly * > VA. - KB more »
Feb04

brb :D

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 04/Feb/2008  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

Slight change in plans means I will be back in the UK and back online by the 8th/9th Feb. cya'll then! - KB more »
Jan24

semi offline for a few days

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 24/Jan/2008  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

I am off traveling for a few days. So emails might be a bit slow and since I am going to be in a different timezone, things might even happen at odd times of the day!If you need to, but cant find me on IRC or IM - email me instead, I will be in email… more »
Jan10

Blog update

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 10/Jan/2008  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

Quite a few people seem to have had issues posting comments with the previous b2evo version I was using, so here is an update that should fix those issues. If you still have problems, let me know. - KB Update: 13/01/2008 it turns out that there wer… more »
Sep06

back

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 06/Sep/2007  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

After a bit of a break from Blogging, I am back! more »
Jul23

MIA

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 23/Jul/2007  ~  Posted in: General  ~  2 feedbacks »

Hi Guys, Over the last week I've had so much email from people asking me where I've gone to, I thought it might be worth blogging this. I am on vacation at the moment, and trying very hard to keep my online footprint as small as possible. But I am loo… more »
Oct01

whats going on here

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 01/Oct/2006  ~  Posted in: General  ~  6 feedbacks »

The other day I saw this amazing 'thing' fly past. But the really odd bit is that this person was neither gaining height nor decending... I am not sure exactly what is going o. This person actually carried on along the ridge line for alteast a mile, then… more »
Sep08

thanks!

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 08/Sep/2006  ~  Posted in: General  ~  3 feedbacks »

Thanks to everyone who made my birthday weekend so much fun! And also to everyone who sent in their best wishes. -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } more »
Aug13

MJHooker is now -back- online!

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 13/Aug/2006  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

Make some noise, everyone! Matthew is now back online, after months of no broadband coverage, he's now back online 24/7. BT finally decided that he was living in an area that did have BBand support! -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [ Mu… more »
Mar17

Comments are gone, yes

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 17/Mar/2006  ~  Posted in: General  ~  Send feedback »

Till I can work out something ( read: get the time to workout something ) in order to cut down the amount of spam getting in, I've just turned off comments for the time being. --Karanbir Singh more »
Feb07

New friend

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 07/Feb/2006  ~  Posted in: General  ~  4 feedbacks »

Jan27

Home Sick with a few rattled bones

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 27/Jan/2006  ~  Posted in: General  ~  2 feedbacks »

Isnt it strange when you goto see the Doc, he asks for an X-ray, and while scanning through that he says 'by the way, you also have a cracked rib'. What ? yes. Are you sure ? no. The X-ray says so. We'll get another one of the area. Ok Doc. (clickety cli… more »

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