Resurrection … 2 years later

2 years later ….

The last time I posted on my blog was on 26th December, 2006. And that makes it a little over 2 years of no-blogging. I had thought of making this resurrection at multiple points of time in between these two years. But for some or the other ‘unavoidable’ reasons, I couldn’t post. I am glad I could at least retain the account and make a comeback to the same place where I started blogging long back.

From computer hacktivism to Social Activism

The last two years had seen a lot of changes everywhere in the world around me and so, inevitably, in myself too. I can connect this from the last post that I had made on this blog. “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” was written after reading a book of the same title. This book influenced me in a great way. Till then, I was less of a regular student and more of a computer hacktivist working for the cause of the Free Software Movement that was born out of the early hacker culture. I still continue to work with the Swecha community in that direction.

After reading that book, my focus for knowledge shifted towards understanding the currently prevalent system of society and the way it functions. The thought of making use of Free Software to liberate knowledge and make it available to the society, made me think of the term ’society’ in a more detailed manner. One thing, for sure, that got imbibed in my heart was deep condemnation for the Imperialist Advancements of United States of America and its ‘allies’.

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Confessions of an Economic Hitman

i finally completed reading “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins. The book gives an insight into “The shocking inside story of how America REALLY took over the world”.

RMS visit

rms came visiting Hyderabad on 20th October, 2006. we had arranged a public addressing by him at the Tagore Auditorium, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Google Docs Test

testing google Docs. [ http://docs.google.com ]
this is posted from the publish action of Google Docs.

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Free Software Definition

“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”

Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:

• The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

• The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

• The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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taken from http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

Virtual Reality — new trends in Web Technology

I had this opportunity to attend a workshop at JNTU Kukatpally today. It was about “New Trends in Web Technologies — Information Filtering and Virtual Reality. JNTU had sent a letter asking college to nominate a student. shiva kumar sir looked around and found me wandering in the corridor. the first thing that came to my mind was “two full days of attendance ($) ($)”. but by the time we realised, the workshop had already started that day.

Policing the Police

this post is about breaking laws, uh, i hope i am not breaking a law.

this happended on 28th September at around 2200hrs. i was at RTC ‘X’ roads, returning from FSF office. i was waiting for the signal to turn green. it still had about 70 seconds to go. i looked around and found that a Cyberabad Police Patrol vehicle stood right to my left.

The Sprint

It feels great to write my first blog about this year’s Software Freedom Day.

I usually hate celebrations and functions. But SFD2006 just redefined the idea of a celebration.

To mark the celebrations at SFD2006, FSF-AP conducted “The Sprint”. A sprint to localize a GNU/Linux Operating System into telugu. The activity was held at about 40 centers around the globe on the day with a participation of above 1000 of which the majority was the community students of various Engineering Colleges in the state. Its estimated that about 57,000 lines of code in English was translated into telugu at the end of the day, when a few teams overseas had just then begun their day.

The slogan “from community to community” was illustrated on the day.