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BIND 10 zones in memory 22 Sep 2012 | 09:58 pm
BIND 10 is getting close to a formal alpha release soon. At ISC, we are going to blog about its features, how administrators can put it to use on their networks, and how developers can use its librari...
Unzix 0.4.0 is now available 7 Apr 2012 | 10:02 pm
Unzix version 0.4.0 is now available. This release fixes portability with some older operating systems. See the Unzix 0.4.0 NEWS file, which contains its release notes.
Help make GIMP operations better (GSoC 2012) 28 Mar 2012 | 12:23 am
Just like last year, one of the tasks that we want to offer students in this year's GSoC is porting GIMP image processing code to GEGL. This is a very interesting task and if you are a student with ex...
OpenBSD bug in the random() function 21 Mar 2012 | 04:18 am
I now work for ISC through Banu (which handles my payroll and some other stuff in India). These days, among other things, we're trying to get BIND 10 to work on OpenBSD. Yesterday, I stumbled upon a b...
Interview of ColorHug maker, Richard Hughes 30 Jan 2012 | 10:27 pm
For a while now, I've wanted Banu to do interviews of makers of things with free and open designs. Being a fan of PingMag MAKE, it was apparent that there was a lot of hard work, learning, fun and sat...
Arithmetic fun with mod_rewrite 21 Dec 2011 | 05:35 am
I've been coding for the Banu Shop which will be opened soon. We store product images after a bit of processing in filesystem directories of this syntax: where int2 is the product identifier (positiv...
Lunar eclipse of December 10, 2011 11 Dec 2011 | 05:42 am
Photographs of today's lunar eclipse, taken in Chennai, India. Click to see the large images.
Drawing circles 14 Oct 2011 | 08:20 pm
How does one draw a circle? You wipe the dust off your Foley & van Dam book and look up the circle drawing algorithm, or simply use Cairo. But I had to explain to someone how to draw circles and going...
Flower disk sampling for the thin lens 8 Sep 2011 | 08:07 pm
A few days ago, I was on my morning walk when I saw a bunch of flowers with the distinctive spiral florets pattern. The day before yesterday, it occured that this might be a good way to make jittered ...
