The February issue of LinuxForYou included Dream Linux 2.2. The LiveCD booted really fast in comparison to other distros, perhaps because it uses a light XFCE environment. But for its weight it sure looks amazing! A highly Macish look and feel with Engage completing the Dock. The applications installed are also a good mix of commonly used to niche ones. Overall I found Dream had taken the good points of quite a number of distros, put together a nice control panel and easy installer.…

At Tuxme they have Sri Sri Ravi Shankar advocating his Art of Living movement. This is a whole new twist to the term 'contextual advertising' …

Since I don't blog often, I have decided to blog every Saturday or Sunday about any interesting stuff that (happened to me)/(i tried) in the week. So getting started with the wide world of the web: Ma.gnolia Ma.gnolia as quite a number of people must already be knowing is a social bookmarking site just like del.icio.us Since I have been a del.icio.us user for a long time, I never really tried ma.…

ColourCode 0.2 has been released. In addition to the features mentioned in the previous post it now supports C# and Shellscript and Javascript. Check it out at the ColourCode homepage …

I am quite pleased to announce that ColourCode 0.2 on which I have been working for the last week is nearing release. 0.2 has the following features over 0.1 support for multiline comments , also when they are embedded inlineoptionally printing line numbersSupport for quote escapes in strings when a backslash precedes it ATM there are a few bugs Also there will be support for more languages …

I am always discovering new uses for the Run Command dialog of KDE. And now I learnt it can even do basic calculations, right there. Now if only it could handle scientific functions...…

I am proud to present my latest creation LOGIN or NIkhil's Game Of Life, my very own Conway's Game of Life simulator. Written in C++ using SDL. I wrote it mainly to learn SDL and because I truely enjoy life. Currently it only runs on Linux. Read the README file in the package for instructions on installation and usage. Here is a nice pic of part of a r-pentomino cycle for your enjoyment:…

To those in the know, and now for those who don't, the reason I have been really quiet on both the web and in RealLifeTM is that I have been down with Typhoid. Nasty nasty disease. I haven't gone to school for 2 weeks now, haven't washed my hair for almost the same time and have been sleeping most of the time. But its getting a bit better since Monday.…

I've got a possibly great idea about fixing the ozone depletion problem. If it is truly good, then someone please implement it. If it just plain sucks, you may make your feelings known in the comments. Without further ado, here it goes. The Antarctic Ozone Hole is the biggest known depletion of ozone. There are also many other spots around the world. My idea goes this way. 1)Less ozone means more Sun.…

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.1beta of ColourCode. ColourCode is a Ruby program to generate syntax highlighted HTML files. Currently it supports HTML, Java, C++, Ruby and Python. For more information and (not)features see the ColourCode homepage …