Google Like Search Engine in your name

This is cool. Goto www.googlefor.com and Enter the name you would like to see instead of the 'Rainbow Google' logo on your google homepage. Hit create and check out the link it generates.

Only downside. The search results generated although powered by google, don't give all the exact features that google offers on its search results page.

Cool idea though.

Raed tihs

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can.I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

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Message in a bottle

Not that I read poetry and understand it. But these are the lyrics of John Mayer's song, that I liked very much. These are some lines from the song that tell the idea...

' Just cast away and I am lost at sea oh
Another lonely day and no one here but me oh
More loneliness than any man could bare
Rescue me before I fall into despair ......

I send an S.O.S. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle

....

Walked out this morning I dont believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
A hundred billion castaways all looking for a home'


Enjoy!!!!

[This and other songs of John Mayer are also good to ears ... give him a try]

fiasco UX

Recently I found about yet another way of running L4 microkernel. Fiasco UX runs on top of Linux. The bootstrapping tasks of L4 micro-kernel are modified to run on top of linux, and the servers up the stack run unmodified. This way crashing of an experiment does not need rebooting of the machine - same advantages as running the OS on top of a simulator. Fiasco UX has a kernel debugger as well, and I would think that fiasco-UX is less CPU intensive alternative to a complete processor simulator.

Starting using fiasco-UX is relatively easy, considering that you don't have to risk other OSes on your machine while doing this. Checkout l4, dope, l4Env modules from the TU Dresden's CVS repository. Build the fiasco kernel for UX inside l4/kernel/fiasco. Follow the instructions on:
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/ux/building.shtml

Then build the various servers provided under l4/pkg/ directory. These servers include sigma0, rmgr, log, names, etc. Compile these servers step by step. Once you have enough binaries you can launch fiasco microkernel as any other linux application.

Besides this, I found link to the slides of a course being taught at Karlsure university on microkernel programming, thanks to a post on l4-hackers mailing list.
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/Studium/KMB/

Many slides are helpful in explaining the key L4 concepts. It also involves a project that involves developing a simple game on top of L4.

Will post more soon...