Things Ravi Pratap Is Up To

I am just too excited to even speak coherently I just received notification from the program committee of LCTES ‘03 that my paper (co-authored with Ron Cytron) titled “Transport Layer Abstraction in Event Channels for Embedded Systems” has been accepted to appear in the proceedings ! I now get to go to San [...]

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For a while now, Angelo, Pavan and I have been working on getting something out of the door for the Boeing people.
Our work involves some heavy use of GCJ and CNI to plug FACET into their OEP platform in place of the real-time event channel that TAO provides. I have to admit that this task [...]

It is funny – I don’t think I remember having such a distinct line of separation between the work week and the weekend when I was back in India. And for some reason, it isn’t just me – all my friends here from back home have behave in exactly the same way.
Is there is something [...]

Okay so I think I am coming quite close to setting a record [in some conveniently chosen sample space, of course ] – my Thinkpad running RedHat Linux 7.3 has gone without a reboot or shutdown for 37 days now! Very nice indeed, considering that at one time, Thinkpads were notorious for causing lockups [...]

Okay, I can’t possibly contain myself any longer. The secret is out – I just bought my first car ! A lovely, white, 1998 Toyota Corolla (LE) with all the snazzy features you could possibly ask for – rear spoiler, CD player, AM/FM/Cassette, power windows, power locks etc etc.
I have tried to sit down and [...]

I wonder what it is that got into me but all of a sudden, it seemed to me that I was missing out on a lot of cool people by not being on LiveJournal and so, on an impulse, I jumped onto the bandwagon !
Here is my profile. I don’t plan to write my journal [...]

Okay everybody, I am off to Dayton (OH) this evening to spend a nice weekend with my cousin Harini, her husband and her two adorable kids, Sahiti and Ritwik I absolutely love them – nothing beats being addressed ‘Ravi mama’ by those cute bundles aged 5 and 3
This week has been [...]

I am telling you, this place St. Louis is really funny. No wait, let me be more accurate – Wash U is one funny place. I mean, they say it is Spring break from Mar 3-7 and do you know what the freaking temperature is ?! 25 F ! Am I supposed to even pretend [...]

I am telling you, sometimes I think all we Linux/UNIX/*BSD/whatever derivative of UNIX enthusiasts really deserve the position that our favourite OS holds in this world – second to MS Windows ! I mean, consider what happened to me just now :
I was working on this Solaris machine for my lab assignment in the CS [...]