Abstract: Operating system support for multiple page sizes in the Linux kernel is not considered a high priority because of the complexity it adds to the VFS and VM layers and the perception that relatively few applications really need it and a majority of the users don’t need to pay to pay costs associated with the complexity. In this paper, we present an alternative method to support an ABI requiring a page size smaller than the default page size for the architecture on a kernel that doesn’t support multiple page sizes.

I asked the girl at the checkout counter today about it and she denies any knowledge of it. I had to say: could you please tell Deep foods to print one?

Generally, the Indian grocery stores get away with a lot (I’ve seen borderline baby food getting sold). So one has to be careful. Anyone from Deep foods?

In fact they still offer the deal if you got a pre-April retail box. But it’s hard to tell. And retailers are even more slimy. All of them still advertize the “Free calls anywhere within the US” without the fine print that is on Ooma’s own website.

The problem is that the guys who write firmware for these modems stink. They make them intentionally hard to reconfigure, so its harder to switch. Here are the things that worked for me. Sonic tells you how to access the web UI. But they won’t tell you how to switch it to bridged mode. The config is in a hidden page: 10.0.0.1/brgmode.htm

There you have it. The app actually works. Punctuation done manually.

These things arrive in a plastic pouch, with bare minimum stuff. But they don’t really work. I’m pretty certain that these are products returned by other customers as non-working.

Motorola customer support: 1-800-331-6456 takes you to a eastern european country and the customer service rep disconnects the phone line after taking down my name and phone number.

Buy.com: Won’t return money, but is willing to send more broken bluetooth headsets.

If you’re curious about the problems:

First one: the mic would work only with the headset near my mouth. Didn’t pick up sound when it’s on my ear.

Second one: continuous beeps every second when paired. Motorola doesn’t document what this means.

“effective guidance of public opinion on the Internet is an important way of protecting the security of online information”

I think this quote has the potential to be remembered for a long time to come.

Turns out that I had to run

xrandr --prop

Apart from telling me what X thinks about the hardware, it also gets my monitor to start working properly. Thought I’d blog it, before I forget about these useful little things.

If only I can teach my macbook to do this via the monoprice mini display port to HDMI adapter.

Take for example, the most recent case of Ruchika Girhotra. Google news counts more than 1000 articles on this topic. Obviously, every news outlet wants to show how concerned they are and how broken the politicians and the justice system is.

Quite curiously, no one turns this around and asks what was the media doing between 1990 and 2009, before it became a big story? It became a big story, only because the guy was let off with a 6 month sentence. But in this ad driven world, how do we tell between honest media outlets and the ones which are just chasing the clicks?

“What the average citizen doesn’t explicitly understand is that a significant part of the government’s plan to repair the financial system and the economy is to pay savers nothing and allow damaged financial institutions to earn a nice, guaranteed spread,” said William H. Gross, co-chief investment officer of the Pacific Investment Management Company, or Pimco. “It’s capitalism, I guess, but it’s not to be applauded.”