Hello, World !!

I'm Ashish Shukla alias Wah Java !!, a student of (actually trapped in) BCA (Bachelor in Computer Applications) from IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University). I live in Delhi (Captial of India (A country in Asia (A continent on Earth (A planet revolving around Sun (A star in Milky Way (A galaxy in Universe)))))). I want to know about each and every detail of Computer. My interests are tweaking and customizing devices, exposing hidden technologies, learning computer languages, researching on Operating System internals, processor architecture, compiler design (just started), algorithms, databases, graphics programming, maths and advocating for free software. My hobby is reading (e)books.

If you're one of my school mates (oh BTW, I'd done my studies from Shiv Vani Model Sr. Sec. School, Palam, New Delhi 110045), and want to get in touch with other school friends (no matter you know me or not), please contact me (with Orkut Invite as Subject, if mailing), and I'll invite you to Orkut. We already have an Orkut community of our school. There is also a Google Group for our school at http://groups.google.com/group/svms.

NOTE: This website contains invalid XHTML, please forgive Yahoo! Geocities for that, coz they don't know what they're doing.

• comp.lang.asm.x86 Usenet newsgroup.
• alt.os.development Usenet newsgroup.
• gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi newsgroup.
• gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi.devel newsgroup.
• JDC Forums.

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
• The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Confession by Anton Chekhov
• God sees the truth but waits by Leo Tolstoy
• Why software should be free ? by Richard Stallman
• The GNU Project by Richard Stallman
• C For Dummies - I, II by Dan Gookin
• Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash

• Apache Software Foundation.
• Apple Developer Site.
• Google Search.
• Google Groups.
• Intel Developer Site.
• JUGd - Java User Group Delhi.
• MSDN.
• Techbooks.
• Wikipedia.
• Windows Live.
• iLUGd - Linux Delhi User Group.
• java.sun.com.
• x86.org.

• LibXMS2. An Open source mobile phone library written in C# 2.0 for Microsoft .NET Framerwork v.2.0.40607.
• Nix's IME. An Open source transliteration based input method editor for Hindi and Sanskrit locales, for Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 and later.
• procmap. Dumps page maps of a process to the console. A /proc/xxxx/maps for Windows.
• WAY. An Open source game for Nokia Series 40 Mobile Phones (esp. Nokia 6610). Written in Java language for MIDP 1.0, CLDC 1.0.
• Hemlock. An Open source project demonstrating how to generate .NET Framework Code from XML uses CodeDOM, DesignerHost APIs.
• cap. A simple sample that demonstrates how to use V4L2 with Xlib.

• Paging in IA32. (alpha-stage) Explains concepts of paging w.r.t. IA32 processors based OSs (Operating Systems).

My PGP key id is : 0xA03F4261
My PGP key fingerprint is: BBA9 AD7D BA71 61EB BE46 8CF5 E44A C663 A03F 4261
My PGP public key is here: http://keyserv.nic-se.se:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA03F4261

• My cellphone started working. :-))
• I'm back in blogging world, as I found a XHTML 1.0 Transitional blog at wordpress.com.
• Update your address books as my residence's number 011-55202292 changed to 011-66202292 w.e.f. 20th May, 2006.
• My cellphone is not working :-( , so please call me at my residence phone numbers. Inconvenience regretted.
• Finally, I've stopped blogging on Blogger.com. And, I'm eagerly looking for a validatable blog.
• Now, Ashish uses PGP...
• Now, Ashish blogs tooo... ;-)
• See, my success story on BhashaIndia.com Sucess Stories page.