The Midnight Sun

Guruprasad L
Guruprasad L
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  • Hell with whoever and whatever

    I have been going through an emotionally turbulent period of time where there are wild swings in emotions. One of the main things causing all this misery is the feeling of being used by someone so mercilessly with a precision a surgeon might envy with his surgical tools. It became obviously clear where my position…

  • Three days of Chetan Bhagat

    I have been spending all my time by doing wrong things at the wrong time, hence I missed out on a lot of things that I like to do and reading books is one of them. My ‘to-read’ book queue had been building up into a monstrous one and as I too was fed up…

  • OpenSolaris 2008.11 – A step in the right direction, but beware of impending pitfalls!

    guruprasad@opensolaris-2008.05$ BUILD =`uname -v | sed -e “s/snv //” -e “s/[a-z]//”` guruprasad@opensolaris-2008.05$ pfexec pkg refresh guruprasad@opensolaris-2008.05$ pfexec install entire@0.5.11-0.${BUILD} guruprasad@opensolaris-2008.05$ pfexec install SUNWipkg@0.5.11-0.${BUILD} guruprasad@opensolaris-2008.05$ pfexec pkg install SUNWinstall-libs guruprasad@opensolaris-2008.05$ pfexec pkg image-update This is how we can upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to OpenSolaris 2008.11 – so says the official OpenSolaris site. Since the release of…

  • Sun Club – A session after a long time

    The Sun Club sessions that had been planned had to be put into hibernation for about two months as there were exams during that period.So the first thing I did after the college opened for a new semester was to plan for a session and organize it. I wanted to have a session introducing people…

  • So far as a Campus Ambassador

    Its almost 3 months into my term as the Sun Campus Ambassador of my college. Though i have great plans, i could not put much into implementation due to a lot of issues I had to face. After I returned to my college after Induction training at Bangalore, about 10 working days were lost as…

  • Rats and Meow on OpenSolaris

    I was having issues connecting to online repositories of Ubuntu and OpenSolaris as I was connect to a network which was behind a proxy server. Thanks to Avinash Joshi http://blogs.sun.com/avinashjoshi/entry/using_apt_get_behind_a I was able to setup apt on Ubuntu to contact and install packages from the Ubuntu repository from behind the proxy. I was trying to…

  • Software Freedom Day @ TCE for the fifth consecutive year! FStival 08

    — @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Ever since SFI started celebrating Software Freedom day every year in 2004, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, has been celebrating it as FStival (Free Software festival). This is the fifth straight year that FStival has been conducted in our college,…

  • My Sun blog

    I, as the Sun Microsystems Campus Ambassador of my college, have been given the privilege to have my blog on blogs.sun.com and a Sun email id! I am feeling really overjoyed at it. My Sun blog is at http://blogs dot sun dot com/guruprasad. I will be blogging in parallel in both the blogs and will…

  • I am the new Sun Campus Ambassador of my college

    I have been selected by Sun Microsystems as the Sun Campus Ambassador of my college TCE, Madurai. I will be trained by Sun and then I will have to evangelise Sun technologies in my college. Actually there is more that I can do than just evangelising, conducting demos and workshop sessions. I was told “There…