Symbian: AKNFEP 23 panic

In an earlier post, I touched upon a means to switch the language of the Symbian emulator, popularly known as Epoch. I wanted then, but forgot, to mention one slight issue that crops up unexpectedly after the emulator makes a language switch. The thing that rears its ugly head is called an AKNFEP 23 panic. [...]

Internet outage: Undersea cables severed off again

As many as five undersea cables have been damaged AGAIN, affecting Internet and Telecom tubes of over fourteen countries. One has to wonder whether incidents like these are purely accidental in nature, or there is more to them than meets the eye. As Ansar pointed out in our discussion earlier today, of the thousand of [...]

Whingingly yours

People who have worked with me know that I tend to whine a lot. I bitch about the smallest of things—not having a proper desk to work on, a comfortable chair to sit on, a powerful machine to work with, LCD to look at without straining my eyes, copious space to park my car, a [...]

DeltaCopy: rsync front-end for Windows – incremental file transfer

rsync is the first thing that pops in the mind when there is talk of fast incremental or differential backups or file transfers on and across Linux and Unix. With Cygwin, one may harness on Windows the power, flexibility and ease of incremental file transfers that rsync makes possible. There are no GUI front-ends to [...]