The restaurant at the end of the universe, by Douglas Adams.

It is a very interesting name.

All the while, when I was going through the book, I kept on thinking about this restaurant situated at some place which is at the end of the universe, some corner of the universe. Ofcourse, only untill the book eventually took me to the restaurant which was "at the end of the universe". Not "in the end", in space, but in time.

I wished to setup the Netgear WG511 card on my laptop running linux-2.6.7. While looking for pointers for what to do, I did not imagine that the setup will be so straightforward.

Kernel Corporation officially launched the website this week. It offers services and support for Amd/am-utils applications. This has been a domain where there has been a continuous need and the corresponding lack thereof of professional support.

This week was the Concepts event at PICT. It is a big graduation level project exhibition contest held in Pune. Official website : http://www.concepts2004.org .

Could see some very good projects in the Systems and networking category there.

Our group, Dreamz Group, had acted as a guide for two systems projects, and they fared extremely well at Concepts. These projects were :

• QuickSilver - An active Memory Defragmenter.
• Trinity - A tripartite resource allocator. This is inspired from the CKRM folks .

There were some other good projects as well like SNAPEXT2 (they had a good design for taking multiple file-level snapshots of an ext2 filesystems, with consideration for using lesser space and time), and ORION FileSystem (They had a flat filesystem as the base, whereas the views to the filesystem were generated on the fly based on an SQL query on a set of attributes related to the files.). Also a replay debugger extension to gdb was there, I couldnt see it though.

Dominic Giampaolo, the author of Be's journalling filesystem has moved over to Apple.

Now, this famous book (Practical FileSystem Design) of his available from his own website : Dominic Giampaolo .

It is an excellent read, you'll like it.

Started reading up on this book. It is a good book which discusses the Cache systems, locking primitives in MPs and the caching in a multiprocessor environment in decent detail.

Check the book out :
Unix System for modern architectures.

It is quite an old book, but good to refresh some stuff from school.

Well, ok, this is the first blog that I have ever written. So how about mentioning something about myself in this one.

I am Kedar Sovani. I am from India. I like to read kernel code and write kernel code. I may not call it hacking though.

Ok, lets see how this looks...