rohith says

Its me on twitter. Yay !!

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:47:00 +0000

http://twitter.com/#!/srohith85

Oh wait, it is not that big a deal :)

IDE and compiler on the web

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:19:00 +0000

I found this site www.ideone.com where one can write their code, compile it, get its output and then share it with others.

http://ideone.com/7RtTg

Above is a link to a java program that i wrote in an intention to check out how the site works. I highly recomend it.

Random thoughts !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:36:00 +0000

An introspection revealed that i love to resolve conflicts. I don't exactly go in search of it. Most times i end up in a situation where i have to take it upon myself to do the job. I might be boasting about myself here, but the truth is that i am pretty good at it.

Lately, i have even simplified my decision making process. I believe any problem can be resolved into an if..else.. condition (does computer programming ring some bells???). It also give me a practical perspective to life and a feeling of no strings attached.

Long time no blog

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:16:00 +0000

It is kind of hard to explain why you would start blogging and then not update it for a long time. So, i will just skip that discussion.

This is my first blog from a linux machine (Ubuntu). I always wanted to use linux for my daily computer needs. However, windows just seem to be more friendly with what i wanted to accomplish when i sat in front of the terminal. Until one day when my windows gave up on me and showed me the dreaded BSOD. Now i had the option of fixing BSOD and getting back to windows. or i could just use the ubuntu 9.04 that i had installed when i desired to dual boot my machine. I went with the 2nd choice. Since, then i have been learning a lot everyday. Now, i love to work on ubuntu. I love my linux command terminal. I feel i can do a lot with it. Wait till i claim that i am an expert on linux commands and then i will unleash the fury.

One thing that i was unable to do on ubuntu was get a root access. I was always wondering if i set the root password which i cannot seem to remember. So i searched online for this issue and found this great link on how to set password for root on ubuntu.

Following are the steps.

1) Login as normal user
2) open the terminal
3) Type sudo sh
You are asked for your password.
Upon authentication you get the root shell.
4) Define password for the root by typing sudo passwd at the root shell that you got.
5) Enter the password you desired for the root.
6) exit the shell and you get back your user prompt.
There you go, u got root credentials.

Lance all set to win the 2009 title

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:53:00 +0000

After 11 stages, lance is still going strong. It looks like the only competition that he will get is from contador.

Following is my prediction. The team will help them both till the 20th stage. They might also choose to help kloden. I think it will be a fight to the finish between armstrong and contodor on the last climb on mont ventoux.

Armstrong still looks like the favourite as he has more experience when it comes to ventoux than contador. I was watching some of armstrong videos on mont ventoux and he seems like he always picks it to launch an attack and put a big time gap between himself and his competitors.

Go Lance Go !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:39:00 +0000

Lance Armstrong is competing in Tour de France this year for his 8th consecutive yellow jersey. I won't be surprised if he wins it for the 8th time. It appears that the French anti-doping agency have tested him 24 times as part of the out-of-competition testing ever since he announced his return to professional cycling this year.

What makes him my favorite cyclist is his attention to detail and dedication. I have on certain occasions applied these qualities in whatever i do and have seen success.

Another first time experience that blew my mind.

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Yup, it has been a long time since i have updated my blog. The harsh winter and the academic course load played a huge role i guess. I like to blog only when there are no strings attached.

Let me start of by putting the day into context. I slept at 1:00 AM and woke up at 4:00 AM. My traveling habit is such that i pack a great part of my luggage in the morning. Left home at 5:30 AM to North Station in Boston. I was going to my pal Arjun's graduation ceremony.

I boarded a greyhound bus bound to Syracuse, New york. This is the first time i am traveling to Syracuse. Also this is the first time i am traveling in a Greyhound bus. Moreover the weather was great. So i had all the reason to be excited about my trip.

I had more surprises awaiting. The bus driver announced that there is electric charging points and also wireless internet on the bus. I had not expected this. I was really surprised. Back when i was in India, doing my bachelor's degree, i was thinking about how it would be if somebody implemented such technologies. I come here a see that they are already in use. I would like to take my hats off to whoever made it practically possible.

Communication has come a long way since the invention of telegraph. I had never thought in my life that i will be able to take pictures, blog about my travel and let the whole world know about it while i am traveling.

RSS feed for this blog.

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:06:00 +0000

I have created an RSS feed (Even the Atom feed is active) for this blog which you can subscribe by clicking on the orange icon just above the blog archive on to the top right part of your screen. Please let me know if your feed reader in not working for this feed after subscribing to it.

spare a moment of thought

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:55:00 +0000

There are many things we take for granted in our day-to-day life. I would want to appeal to you all to spare a moment of thought to whatever you come across daily which you think plays the most important role. It may be your car, shoe, cell phone, toothbrush or wrist watch.

Let us think that there was nothing called as a toothbrush. There was no concept of brushing your teeth. Assume that William Addis( Inventor of toothbrush - and yeah i googled it out) didn't have his moment of truth. Also assume that nobody else thought of a toothbrush (ahh!!! i think i have conveyed my point). Now imagine how people in this civilized society would be going about their day lives. Get up in the morning, have a cup of coffee, go to bathroom, get ready, have breakfast, go to work/school. Well, seems like a daily morning routine. There is something missing which nobody would even guess. At this point i am trying to imagine how i would be talking to my peers without brushing my teeth.

Today i take this moment to thank my laptop. It is currently playing the most important role in my life. It has been about an year since i bought it. It has been with me during my ups and downs. It stares at me every time i stare at it. It is always there for me when i am bored. It is a multipurpose interface which helps me in my studies, entertainment, speaking to my loved ones online. It is the second thing i think about when i begin my day. It was away for a while from me when it had to undergo a replacement surgery. Now it is back and is as good as it was before. The best part is that i am using it to write this blog.

I plan to come up with a name for it. Someday.

A wonderful thought.

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:22:00 +0000

I was just trying to recall the stuff that my friends kept on telling me when we were trying to waste time. You will be surprised to know what goes through people's mind when it is just left free and thoughts start to flow. I am really amazed by this wounderful unsolved mystery called mind.

On one such occasion vamsi(my buddy) said something that complete baffled me. He said and i quote "In every person's life, he is the hero" (or heroine). It didn't make a lot of sense to me then even though i thought that it was a perspective which i had never bothered to consider. But i started to give it a thought when i was on my long way back home (1 hour :o journey in the bangalore rush hour). Everyone might at most times think of him/her being the main character in this real movie and all others just play a part in the movie of life. I guess most of us would not even thought about it untill someone points it out. This is one of the glaring proofs of how self-centred a man can be. There might be many of you who will disagree on this.However to draw a line and show the distinction, i dont think that this can be called selfishness. I dare not call this selfishness. If that is the case then everyone, living or dead is a selfish person.

Ever fell sick and were happy that you fell sick.

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:52:00 +0000

I had throat infection and fever throughout yesterday night. Why am i happy about it? That is because i have very less work to do for the following week.

I cannot imagine falling sick when there is an important assignment that is due in the near future and i am on the bed not able to get the work done or concentrate on helping my body immune system work its magic on me. Luckily i have finished a significant part of my assignment with very few things left to do. To add to my joy, coming Tuesday is a holiday as it is the veteran's day. Good for me.

I also have a notion that if i fall sick then the probability that i will fall sick again for the next couple of months is very small. So i consider this as a blessing in disguise especially when i have my finals coming up in a month and a half and i have a major portion of my grade dependent on it.

So the next time you fall sick, just think about it. It could be a blessing or a curse.

-Rohith

Feeling out of place.

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:33:00 +0000

I realized how out dated i am on movies and songs for the past couple of months. My friend Ashwin keeps sending me new kannada songs every other day. Same is the case with Vamsi who also sends good songs to me. I listen to them once and thats it. I never find time or the urge to listen to them again. This is not because i don't like to listen to them. It is just the case of me being occupied with something else.

In the earlier days, i had the patience to download it and update my playlist. Now i just listen to it from my gmail inbox. I noticed that i have stopped using my headphone which means that i have also stopped listening to songs. Songs and movies will no more be a topic of discussion when i meet my friends in an online conference. However that won't prevent them from picking on me for this big mistake. I will however have to come up (and will come up) with something else that keeps them from pulling my leg.

feeling nostalgic

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:40:00 +0000

I was today thinking about my childhood days and trying to recall what i did in those days. My first memories of school, teacher, my home, my first friends (whom btw i tried to search on orkut. Thanks to orkut for the bad search results and privacy options. I couldnt find any of them :( ). I also recalled some of my most embarassing moments as a child.

It is very difficult to express in words as to what they were. But then it flashed to me that i can use technology to show you all my very first American television series and then youtubed its name. "Street hawk". Ahh i found it. I used to watch it with my dad after dinner. It used to be aired on doordarshan. I think i must be between 6 to 8 years old when it was aired. I used to be glued to the TV often being shouted at for sitting very close to the TV. Nobody changed channels in those days as we had just 1 or 2 channels in a middle class home.

So here goes the intro music(which i used to be humming in those days when playing with my toy car - how silly) of the television series.............

Share your oldest memories which can be youtubed so that i can get into your childhood days for a while :)

You are being watched - I am just kidding :))

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:02:00 +0000

Sign by Danasoft - Images for Myspace Layouts

Breaking the myth : food

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:52:00 +0000

I came across this link online and found it so good that i am posting it here. I just went through the first page and i was convinced that this is a very good link without even dwelling deep into the website. I am sure even you will find it intresting and true.

http://fatloss4idiots.com/1280index2.html?hop=roeib

Numbers speak for themselves

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:36:00 +0000

Hi,

U think that technology has made student life easier? Take a look at this and give it another thought.

He is back !!!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:45:00 +0000

Lance Armstrong has decided to make a comeback into professional cycling.

started chroming

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:39:00 +0000

Hi there,

Another wonder form the google stable, chrome is here. I downloaded it today and started chroming (A word that i coined for browsing through the chrome browser - I hope this word i coined catches up).

First up it seems to be very fast. Secondly it gives me a feeling that i am not using a browser cos it has a very minimal bars and other stuffs which is common with other browsers unless you try to minimize it yourself. Finally, i guess my obsession with google and its products did the trick in me switching to chrome and making it my default browser.

There are other features like incognito etc which i will leave it for you to explore and hence doing my part in *not* spoiling your surprise.

Happy Chroming !!!!!!

Its official i am a nerd :)

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:02:00 +0000

My Network Security Term Paper

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:00 +0000

The thing that is always on my mind these days is the Network Security Term paper. I am doing the paper with Akash Yellappa and Ahmed Sonbol. We have choosen "Phishing and Pharming" as our topic.

I have plans to finish the paper as soon as possible. But as we all know it is easier said than done :)

Go Green

noreply@blogger.com (Rohith Shivakumar) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:31:00 +0000

I just came across this and thought that i must do my part in saving the planet...........