So, we now know our way around the Unix filesystem now and we know how to read, move or delete files. We also know how to ask for help if we’re stuck. This post in the Unix 101 series will teach you about file permissions.
We’ve been talking about Unix being a multi-user, multiprocessing system, but we haven’t really though of security yet, have we ? I mean, if there are several users using a system at the same time, your personal data can’t be safe, right ?
Wrong !
The designers of …

My favorite mountain resort in India is most definitely Gulmarg. Like Barney from HIMYM would say… Gulmarg’s beauty is LEGENDARY.
Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir is the nearest Airport and Gulmarg is about 2 hours from Srinagar.
It’s proximity to Srinagar makes it easily accessible and visitors flock from far and near to take in its splendor. The journey to Gulmarg is half the attraction of reaching there, in any season. In the summer the sight of the rolling hills sprinkled with wild flowers makes Gulmarg look like a Van …

Muxtape, the widly popular and short lived service which that let users create virtual mixtapes, is coming back … in a different avatar.
The site was pulled down after the RIAA sent the owner, Justin Ouellette a notice, just about a month after the launch. Muxtape already had an impressive 1 millon or so page views in the short month or so that the site was online. In a lengthy blog post on the site’s homepage, founder Justin Ouellette writes about all the legal hassles he’s been having and about his fight …

The GNOME foundation has released the new version of the GNOME Desktop environment, version 2.24. 
This release features a lot of bug fixes, performance improvements and new software.
This is also the first release of the GNOME mobile platform which is already a part of the various Linux based mobile device platforms such as Ubuntu Mobile, Moblin, Maemo and others.
The GNOME desktop focusses on ease of use, stability, internationalisation and good accessibility support and the new release only goes to prove the commitment of the developers behind this awesome piece of software. 
Version 2.24 includes …

Welcome to the second edition of the Friday Linkfest. A week sure passes by quickly ! This post is to share with you guys some of the cool stuff that we’ve been reading here at NomadicRider. 
Open Source
16 Free tutorials for top open source applications
OStatic’s firefox superguide
Old and evergreen posts from OStatic. Lots of good stuff there.
GNOME 2.24 released 
The latest and greatest release of the Open Source GNOME Desktop. Read the release notes for a glimpse of all the cool stuff the GNOME people have lined up for us.
The browser arms …

Finally !! The world’s first Android based phone has been launched by T-Mobile. Called the G1, the phone has apparently been made in collaboration with HTC.
Why am I so excited about it ?
Well, apart from being a pretty decent phone, this is also the first phone in the world to be based on an open platform, Google’s Android project. That has to be a big deal, right ?
The last bit about being based on an open platform might not be relevant to the vast majority of people using any phone, …

The restaurant seems a little confused as to how it wants to position itself.
It has an ethnic Rajasthani ambience, Jagjit Singh ghazals as background score (yeah yeah, I know its not a movie) & Rasam as part of their Thali !! But if the food is good, who’s complaining ?
The restaurant spans 3 floors, the second floor is a bit too dark for my liking but the seating and service is decent.
I have had lunch at Raaga once or twice ( cause its close from office) and took the thali …

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has decided to offer it’s users the option of purchasing proprietary media codecs. It doesn’t matter if the users purchase their copy of Ubuntu, download it or bought a computer pre-installed with Ubuntu.
There is an animated dicussion going on about this news at slashdot and other places.
Canonical has definitely opened a can of worms with this move and we will have to wait and see how the open source community in general reacts to this decision. This decision to sure get a lot of attention …

So, I’ve been reading a lot. Two thousand seven hundred and ninety seven items in the last month, or so Google Reader tell me.
While I’m at it, I decided that I might as well share some stuff with you guys. After all, reading is a good thing, right ?
Here is a round up of some stuff that I’ve been reading from around the web.
Humour
Close shave with insurance
Sarcastic and Funny account of a person’s struggle to get a medical checkup done to get an insurance.
Travel
Experiencing an Asia beyond China and India
Experience …

A reminder of the excellent time we had at Gulmarg last month.
The red building in the picture is a Shiva temple, probably the only one in the country with a Muslim priest.
This temple has been featured in a number of bollywood movies and the guides around the place will happily fill you in with the names even if you aren’t interested :-)
Gulmarg is also the venue for the most famous winter festival in India in which hordes of international tourists also participate. Gulmarg is covered with snow during that time …