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October 30, 2005

Acknowledgments

I owe eternal gratitude to Dr. Zartash Uzmi and Dr. Umar Saif for their constant support. I got interested in computer systems research because of Umar Saif and over the years he has been a mentor and helped shape my career to whatever it is and whatever it is shaping out to be. Zartash Uzmi dedicated countless time and energy to advise and guide me not only in work-related matters but in life-in-general as well.

This by-far is not the end of my acknolwedgments list but its amazing to see how people dont even say "Thank You" to those who help change their lives.

October 18, 2005

Articles

The two articles that have, arguably, made the biggest impact on my philosophy of life, in general, and research in particular would be:
Apart from that, I plan to link any interesting articles that I come across here. This list should grow depending on how much free time I get in the coming months:

October 09, 2005

new webpage

... so EuroSys extended their deadline which gave me some free time and i finally updated my website from that to this. This website is hosted at my machine at SICS for now.

I got interested in upgrading to Moveable Type after meeting joe polastre in germany last month and viewing his webpage. So the design of this webpage is sort-of inspired by joe's website untill I get some more free time to do some creative thinking on ideas for a website (or maybe I could use the StyleCatcher plugin to give a different look without any effort but I dont really like the other available styles for now).

Speaking of StyleCatcher, it is buggy and amongst other things I needed a newer version of LWP to make it work. You could get an RPM for that here or If you do not have access to install LWP on your server then here is some discussion that might help.

and speaking of buggy things, a certain very important person needed to be reminded again and again about a certain very important task and I decided to use some script for sending that person automatic emails but apparently the available php scripts for doing that e.g. emrem are not exactly written as well as i might have wanted them to be - the way emrem sends these reminder emails results in the email 'appearing' from whatever address and name you specific in the configuration but the return path could end up being root@localhost.localdomain or the message ID could end up as something like 200510131700.j9DH011S017797@localhost.localdomain. Any sophisticated spam filter SHOULD categorize such emails as spam.

I was about to go for using Gunther for upgrading the website but then the website would look like this and no blog support.

I had a blog before as well but I am not exactly a big fan of subscribing to those blog websites, setting up a blog on your machine isnt rocket-science. So why subscribe when you can have complete control of things yourself?