La Salle Debain

Open Source @ Consolidated Braincells Inc.

About La Salle Debain

This is a weblog I'm keeping about my work on Debian and any other useful Debian related info I come across. It is not meant to compete with other news sources like Debian Weekly News or Debian Planet. Mostly it is just a way for me to classify and remember all the random bits of information that I have floating around me. I thought maybe by using a blog it could be of some use to others too. Btw. "I" refers to Jaldhar H. Vyas, Debian developer for over 8 years. If you want to know more about me, my home page is here.

The name? Debain is a very common misspelling of Debian and la salle de bains means bathroom in French.

If you have a comment to make on something you read here, feel free to write to me at jaldhar@debian.org.

You can get an rss 0.91 feed of the blog here.

Sunday, November 7 2010

Sal Mubarak 2067!

Wishing everyone a happy, auspicious, and prosperous Gujarati new year. (Vikrama samvata 2067 called "Shubhakrt")

For Diwali I got a smartphone after enduring years of pointing and laughing at my previous decidely dumb phone. It's a T-Mobile G1 with Google™ or in other words a rebranded HTC Dream. I didn't want an iPhone (evil) or the phone the sales people were trying to push, the G2 (very evil.) As evil is the default in the telecom industry I especially wanted the ability to run CyanogenMod and this phone, though it doesn't have all the latest whiz-bang features, is perfect for that. (Btw, people are working on porting Cyanogen to the G2 but why let your dollars encourage the carriers and their shennanigans?)

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