Author Archives: Justin Joseph

Searching for Torvalds !

(Linus Benedict Torvalds :best known for initiating the development of the Linux Kernel) All along my life, I wanted to learn about linux and its creators(note the plural here!) and this journey has been going on for sometime. Below, i would love to share with you, some search adventures, that i had today. First, i… Read More »

Adding more search engines

(The mini search engine tool bar)  All of you might have noticed the cool mini tool bar located at top right of our Firefox browsers, saving us time and effort whenever we wanted to search something in Google. It saves us time and effort by not having us to type the address – www.google.com in… Read More »

Changing blogger template

(My blog, before the template change) As promised in my last blog entry, this post would be about changing the blogger template. Note that in order to make full use of this post, you must either be using the old blogger or you are hosting your own blog site. But guys, if you are using… Read More »

New Orange Flavor, Served

(The new theme of this blog -A juicy, fresh orange ) Hi friends, Thanks for checking out this blog again. As you can see, the blog has undergone a complete revamp in its style and design. Hope all of you, my friends, like the new interface and design. I got the template from Free CSS… Read More »

My first try on Google Sketch up

(A typical well as seen in India) Wells are still common in many parts of India supplying clean and pure water to the masses. So why am I mentioning it here? Because this theme happened to be the first 3D scene I ever created in my life ! Behold, Google Sketch up. This is one… Read More »

A brush with “Wow” effects of the Linux world

(Slax with lg3D)  It was the first time, I took a screen shot of the power of graphics in Linux in action, and I thought I would share it with you guys. In the screen shot you can see the start menu, yeah the 3D “thing” at the left corner and the minimized windows get… Read More »

Fools paradise:A total revelation

(Moving target: The disillusioned donkey -source : Bobanum Moli) When I finished reading the latest editon of PC world magazine(Indian edition), I was feeling like a total looser. After going through a whopping 167 glossy pages(Anniversary special) of latest stuff(?)I felt, I have not gained much. I had been, having this feeling for the past… Read More »

This is where I shoud be

(courtesy, source :http://sh5.net/gallery/main.php/v/2003/100_0305.jpg.html) Just to look at the these clusters, being stacked up, is just a beauty(Correct me, if I am wrong). My heart is really at, working in a Linux environment with super computing power, but not those proprietary “Main-frame” stuff(Coders, switch to the mainframe. No skills?… no problem.)but rather some cool open source,… Read More »

Results are out

(Newspaper clipping from Malayala Manorama) Above: I have attached a newspaper clipping, that appeared today, announcing that the results for Bachelor degree in Computer Science has been announced. And one of my friends secured the highest marks in the university topping the rank list(her name has been highlighted in pink) Since the transcript is in… Read More »

Mozilla rules

(Graph of browsers that, visitors to this blog use) About 84 % of visitors to this blog, use Firefox or Mozilla based browsers, while visiting this site. Firefox 2.0.x is the browser used by the maximum number(67.23 %) of visitors. The bar at the top(the longest one) depicts this. These stats are generated, thanks to… Read More »