Hello, I am Vivek Varghese Cherian, a Mechanical Engineer from Cochin City,which is located in the central portion of the beautiful South Indian state of Kerala. I am currently based in Mumbai ,India , where I live with my wife Phebe who is an Architect with Hafeez Contractor.
These days, I grok E-mail at Netcore. Prior to Netcore, I was with the Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education at the Tata Institute of Fundamendal Research as a short term visitor where I attempted to master the art of computer programming using Python to assist Professor Nagarjun with the Gnowsys Project.
I support the idea of building online content based on the collaborative community wisdom on the lines of Wikipedia, and you can find links from the wikipedia thoughout this website to make it user friendly for newbie netizens. I am also a FOSS based Systems / Network Administration aficionado.
I use the GNU/ Linux Operating System, and Debian GNU/Linux is my favourite distribution and I have written an article about my early experiences with Free Software which might be an intresting read especially if you are new to the whole idea of Free Software.
Some of the people I respect in the computing field are Richard Matthew Stallman, who started the GNU Project, Ken Thomson,John Gilmore, Prof.Eben Moglen, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan,Dennis M. Ritchie, Lawrence Lessig and finally Linus Trovalds who as we all know wrote the linux kernel for fun and later released it under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) .
Most of the content on this site may be static for long periods of time. My Blog is likely to be updated more frequently though.
Links
My GPG Key . (Kindly ignore all my previous keys).
Some of my old (and unmaintaind) howtos.
Acknowledgements. Malayalam Localisation (l10n)I am one of the volunteers in the FOSS-Malayalam Project . Here is a sample translation (a very rough draft) of the GNU Home Page to Malayalam .
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Disclamer: The opinions expressed on this site and on my blog are my own and do not reflect those of my past or present employers.
Last modified: Thurs Nov 28 18:22:25 IST 2009