Personal Blog – Dushyant

I had an old Dell Inspiron 6400 lying around at home and decided to install Linux on it – had been dabbling with Linux for many years – but as it was never the only operating system on the computer – didn’t really get ahead with it. Also the plan was to make a multimedia center that I could control with my mobile. I had been doing this on my mac using Salling Clicker, but had no idea what I would do with the Dell – so, as is usual in such cases – Google came to my help.

The feature-set I had planned includes:

1. Digital Photo Frame – slideshow starts as soon as the computer boots
2. Media Centre (controlled via Bluetooth mobile):
3. Control wi-fi router through Bluetooth mobile
4. E-book server - Serve e-books to the nook over wi-fi
5. Remote access via ssh and vnc
6. Sync music, videos and photos from usb HDD (to-do)
7. Send commands via email – e.g start slideshow, suspend, start/ stop torrents, etc. (to-do)
8. Act as a wireless server for my macbook time machine
9. Display clock while in slideshow mode

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Yours truly has entered the publishing domain – first (and probably last article) published in a REAL magazine.

An article written by me on “Financing Solar Project in India” has been published in Energetica India’s May/June 2010 issue. Can view it on:

http://www.energetica21.com/digital/revistas/india09.html#/51/

Also attached here for reference

http://controlyourproject.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Article-in-Energetica.pdf

Apologies for the bad quality of the photographs – used my blackberry as I was too lazy to get out my entire setup . . . .

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Finally bought a car:

For those who don’t know the full story: http://controlyourproject.com/blog/2010/04/buying-a-car/

Hundreds of people buy cars every day in India – who would have thought that the process was so crazy – or maybe it was just me. My tryst with this process started about 10 months ago:

I had just landed myself with a job in Gurgaon, and anyone who’s been in Gurgaon knows that you cannot survive here without a means of transportation – as there is no public transportation to speak of. I had seen the Ritz while in Shimla a couple of days earlier, and had liked the car. It was the “new kid on the block” and everyone was after one – and hence the models we wanted weren’t available. We scoured through the showroom in Gurgaon till we found one which had what we wanted – a Blue Ritz Ldi (diesel) model. We promptly booked the car – using Sonali’s debit card – and then started the looooong process.

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