Things Ravi Pratap Is Up To

I am just too excited to even speak coherently I just received notification from the program committee of LCTES ‘03 that my paper (co-authored with Ron Cytron) titled “Transport Layer Abstraction in Event Channels for Embedded Systems” has been accepted to appear in the proceedings ! I now get to go to San […]

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For a while now, Angelo, Pavan and I have been working on getting something out of the door for the Boeing people.
Our work involves some heavy use of GCJ and CNI to plug FACET into their OEP platform in place of the real-time event channel that TAO provides. I have to admit that this […]

It is funny - I don’t think I remember having such a distinct line of separation between the work week and the weekend when I was back in India. And for some reason, it isn’t just me - all my friends here from back home have behave in exactly the same way.
Is there is […]

Okay so I think I am coming quite close to setting a record [in some conveniently chosen sample space, of course ] - my Thinkpad running RedHat Linux 7.3 has gone without a reboot or shutdown for 37 days now! Very nice indeed, considering that at one time, Thinkpads were notorious for causing lockups […]