Time Turner

This picture shows the time turner from the book "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". So what do you say if we can really turn back the time using our computers. If you are using a *nix computer you can go back to

Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901

Interesting isn't it. Here's how you can do it, just change your time and date to

Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038

And voila you're back in 1901. This is happening because of 32-bit numbering systems. Of course in 31 years this won't be a problem because there will be >128-bit computers. But still it's amazing, if you want to experiment this use this C program I got from this site to check it.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
 time_t t;
 t = (time_t) 1000000000;
 printf ("%d, %s", (int) t, asctime (gmtime (&t)));
 t = (time_t) (0x7FFFFFFF);
 printf ("%d, %s", (int) t, asctime (gmtime (&t)));
 t++;
 printf ("%d, %s", (int) t, asctime (gmtime (&t)));
 return 0;
}

If you are interested in this matter (or if you don't have any other things to do) visit this site.

Kopete and Google Talk

I wanted to chat with my gmail friends using Kopete (the web based chat is very boring). So I started looking for some guides and got it working alright.

First you need to install Kopete
sudo apt-get install kopete

Then you need to install qca-tls
sudo apt-get install qca-tls

Then goto Settings -> Configure -> Accounts -> New and select Jabber and click next.

Under Basic Setup type your username - xxx.xxx@gmail.com. If you want select remember password

On the Connection tab select all the check-boxes.
Server: talk.google.com
Port: 5223

Hope you'll enjoy chatting as much as I do.

Hello World !

This is my first post (well you know it is). In the future I'm going to keep this blog updated with experiences from my everyday life. Now for a bit of information about me. I'm a 16 year old student in Colombo, Sri Lanka. And I'm very interested in Linux , Java
& C++ programming and every thing related to Open Source.