tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-201721582012-02-16T18:55:48.911-05:00I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE. <br> ---Linus TorvaldisNadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-20503183823504595732010-09-03T01:34:00.000-04:002010-09-03T01:34:23.276-04:002010-09-03T01:34:23.276-04:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.comToday, I got bored and so decided to watch some favorite movie on my dvd rom.(I use fedora/kde by the way x86). As usual when I popped in the dvd drive, I got the familiar prompt "So and so is mounted.. what do you want to do?". All I wanted was to watch a movie, relax, have a beer(just a figure of speech). To my horror, the dvd drive kept spinning and I never ended up watching the movie. Damn <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/poioxJ5Tqy_uaJrJ6gFCBBqLkfQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/poioxJ5Tqy_uaJrJ6gFCBBqLkfQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/poioxJ5Tqy_uaJrJ6gFCBBqLkfQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/poioxJ5Tqy_uaJrJ6gFCBBqLkfQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/2QLlTbmdzvE" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2010/09/trouble-with-ejecting-cddvd-roms.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-87314803355488968372010-08-28T00:54:00.000-04:002010-08-28T00:54:57.549-04:002010-08-28T00:54:57.549-04:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.comTo my non-existent blog readers,        Thank you for the support you have provided so far! I have decided to start blogging again. As you may have noticed, I have changed the layout of my blog(thanks to blogger for awesome templates). Stay tuned for more updates... <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s6udufMYw-r94mafydmphPCfT0Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s6udufMYw-r94mafydmphPCfT0Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s6udufMYw-r94mafydmphPCfT0Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s6udufMYw-r94mafydmphPCfT0Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/86p3umvLF10" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2010/08/im-blogging-again.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-8957993822311550392010-01-17T13:40:00.005-05:002010-08-28T00:52:33.121-04:002010-08-28T00:52:33.121-04:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.com0I love KDE(no secret!) and kde underwent a big review after Qt4 was introduced. KDE stopped being the environment I loved. So many bugs and it kept crashing all the time. I had to switch to Gnome. I started using Ubuntu(Ubuntu Linux Bible (versions 9.10 and 10.04)) for some time and it was fun for some time. But my longing for KDE just kept me troubling. I was waiting for a stable release and <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dZHOlDHtRbF-ohU6V8NHLqL8hkM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dZHOlDHtRbF-ohU6V8NHLqL8hkM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dZHOlDHtRbF-ohU6V8NHLqL8hkM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dZHOlDHtRbF-ohU6V8NHLqL8hkM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/8vhagKEsJxs" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2010/01/fixing-eclipse-interaction-with-kde43.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-66183971341147197342007-05-02T13:22:00.000-04:002007-05-02T13:33:58.232-04:002007-05-02T13:33:58.232-04:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.com0I am having my exams on the 9th and 11th of this month. The first exam is Software Testing which sucks so much, i had to take a diversion today! and guess what a mad scientist does? I created a very small plugin for Azureus which does nothing other than preventing it from seeding any of the files downloaded. I know this goes against the principles of bit torrent protocol, but for <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2psbVdxqcliPBEpEcoRo8FKWm1E/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2psbVdxqcliPBEpEcoRo8FKWm1E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2psbVdxqcliPBEpEcoRo8FKWm1E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2psbVdxqcliPBEpEcoRo8FKWm1E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/908ghHdoZhI" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2007/05/seed-stoppersmokey.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-54648820566271709402007-02-07T20:48:00.000-05:002007-02-07T20:54:24.856-05:002007-02-07T20:54:24.856-05:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.com0What a wonderfull feeling.......yesterday by accident i moved the volume scroll on my system.... It is a multimedia keyboard .... however i never expected that linux has installed the appropriate drivers for it .The above screen shot is that of the volume and the bottom is that of mute. Besides the play,next,previous,stop all work..By the way i am using kubuntu :) . Go linux !!! Go!!!! You rock <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yozx4IhXxiq-97Lu5sh-8kGp-1I/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yozx4IhXxiq-97Lu5sh-8kGp-1I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yozx4IhXxiq-97Lu5sh-8kGp-1I/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yozx4IhXxiq-97Lu5sh-8kGp-1I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/3Ct0oMmU3s4" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-multimedia-keyboard-works.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-48473243378225579522007-01-13T23:58:00.000-05:002007-01-14T00:15:12.154-05:002007-01-14T00:15:12.154-05:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.com0Yesteday topcoder conducted its srm contest at 10:30 pm . Even though it was pretty late for us i did not mind since i usually sleep late into the night. It was damn cold in my room which was pretty unusual in a city like chennai . I donot know whether it was the climate or was it my body that started freezing ? This was my first top coder srm and i wished i did properly . I was not able to get <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GBZ-Nl7PDrGnkeOYi1K5OHtbKAI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GBZ-Nl7PDrGnkeOYi1K5OHtbKAI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GBZ-Nl7PDrGnkeOYi1K5OHtbKAI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GBZ-Nl7PDrGnkeOYi1K5OHtbKAI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/Pv7UyZH-bKY" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2007/01/dissapointing-topcoder-contest.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-1143362199599028272006-03-26T03:20:00.000-05:002006-11-13T08:24:40.893-05:002006-11-13T08:24:40.893-05:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.com3perhaps for too long have i been writing about my theories... for a change i thought i could write something about my life experiences....... so here goes one of them! Well.... long long ago when i was still a small kid.......when the world was waiting to hear my beautiful voice, i thought of going to a music class to enhance my singing skills.........so near my house there was a karnatic music <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KdWGyJaAL0Vbi85NuPW9EdBPtC4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KdWGyJaAL0Vbi85NuPW9EdBPtC4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KdWGyJaAL0Vbi85NuPW9EdBPtC4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KdWGyJaAL0Vbi85NuPW9EdBPtC4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/OgMnOUt3bh0" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2006/03/my-first-music-class.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20172158.post-1143209750768175232006-03-24T09:12:00.000-05:002006-11-13T08:24:40.685-05:002006-11-13T08:24:40.685-05:00Nadathur Srinivasan Ajay Kumarnoreply@blogger.com0Well i hate this computer drives when they malfunction and mine does toooo! i have a cd writer/dvd reader which got busted for no reasons! now it is not reading any free space on my cd's and it is not writin either! damn cd rom i am so pissed off! <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1hz_n-bDw7XN1YhpeGOqk6tOKFQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1hz_n-bDw7XN1YhpeGOqk6tOKFQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1hz_n-bDw7XN1YhpeGOqk6tOKFQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1hz_n-bDw7XN1YhpeGOqk6tOKFQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/hwUB/~4/AvrIuOh-dv8" height="1" width="1"/>http://ajaykumarns.blogspot.com/2006/03/cd-rom-busted.html