Okay, Day 1 started with me trying to schedule some sleep in vain. While still trying to setup a distcc farm, build Qt, I went at 10 AM for a break, followed by Atul Chitnis’ talk on “FOSS and Technology” at 10:30 AM. Atul was down with Chickengunya,...

Apologies: This post is coming MUCH MUCH later than it should have! Wow! I wonder if you remember last year’s “Hackfest” at Shaastra, the technical festival of IIT Madras. Last year’s hackfest, despite failing miserably in a LOT of ways, had a whole...

I simply couldn’t resist penning down my views on this subject after reading Smt. Lakshmi Sriram’s article in The Hindu (Chennai): http://www.hindu.com/ms/2007/12/01/stories/2007120150210600.htm I must admit that I am hardly familiar with forms of...

I had to dig through several pages of tweets to find this command: sox -d -d reverb 80 It basically feeds back from the mic to the speaker with the reverb effect. So if you like a lot of reverb while playing a musical instrument, for instance, but...