Moment of Inertia [ Hiran ]

Financial Literacy

This is perhaps the first such exercise to introduce financial literacy in schools in a structured manner and would provide an early exposure to young adults to the world of finance.

Read more here.

People can argue on these points:

• this is additional burden on students, who are already taking a toll for the heavy expectations from parents and/or relatives.
• first improve the existing education standards and then take steps on financial literacy.

I will not stand for these arguments, because I think that `Financial Literacy' or `Financial Engineering', is lacking in todays generation. Amma always says, Managing money is more difficult than making money, since most of the times, pockets are empty, when the money is needed the most.

Managing money in abundance, or raising money in scarcity are two essential learning prospects of `Financial Engineering'. If you ask, why is it termed `Financial Engineering', I consider the art of managing finances/money as `Engineering'. Argue on terminology, but the scope remains same.

Hope to see `Financial Literate' youngsters in the future.

RMS, FOSS and Kerala

Champions of free software say it is the most appropriate platform for e-governance projects, and are hopeful that Kerala's example will be a trendsetter for other states.

Read the article on prophet of free software's visit to India.

Some of my college juniors had a chance to visit an event organized at UC College, held few weeks back, and I am sure that it was a great experience for them. Check out for that report in brief here.

Inspiring by life

When a surgeon gets to work, it's your program he will use to make life-saving decisions.

This was the advertisement seen for iSoft, in `The Opportunities' on today's  Chennai edition of `The Hindu'. Really inspiring by life.

I am even more scared now to go to a hospital.

Railways, Technology and Distance

"It will change the face of Europe and Africa. With support from members of the European Union, we can build this historic connection between the two continents."

Read more.

This is technology, connecting people. A project estimated at 13 billion dollars, for building an underground tunnel, 40Kms long and designed to be built 300mts below sea level, is something very few will even dare to think off. This is estimated to be completed by 2025.

How will be world be at that point of time? :-)

Interesting Read

I would not anticipate that we make a huge additional revenue stream from our Novell deal, but I do think it clearly establishes that open source is not free, and open source will have to respect the intellectual property rights of others just as any other competitor will.

Read here.

What's next in store after Vista!! WinLin? Moreover the CEO should have been more careful in stating about infringements on IP.

Dual FS

The new file system puts data and meta-data on different devices (usually, two partitions on the same disk or different disks), and manages them in very different ways:

Read more.

It is interesting because it segregates `meta-data' and `data' in different partitions (logical).

Vista DRM broken already?

Alex Ionescu said on his blog that he had written code which could be used to bypass Vista's DRM.

Read more here...

Asta la vista baby

Check out these

A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

and

Analysis of Microsoft's Suicide Note

Will, one still not like to manage his pc otherwise asta la vista `freedom'?

Linuxgazette

It's about 20 months since I last wrote for Linuxgazette. I want to, and I have several things in hand to write. Time is a critical factor these days. Still, I don't forget keeping track of every month's issue.

This month's issue has an important article, which would be of interest for any mathematically inclined mind, and, though in lesser amount, for those exploring Gnuplot. The article can be read here.

Prashanth should take a look in to it for some inspiration.

FOSS.IN/2006

As usual, I missed it, amidst some busy official work. Some day, I would....

Meanwhile, I was going through the slides of the technical talks. One which caught my interest was talk from Suparna Bhattacharya on Linux and the art of minimalist development.

It included a term Ephemeralization which, though was not explained in detail in the slides, is still worth mentioning. One should explore more on it.