The default way a VirtualBox machine connects to the network is using NAT. Since it’s connected to a private network, you can connect to the outside world but other machines cannot contact you (this holds true even for the host machine). NAT is the easiest and most lightweight way of connecting your virtual machine to the network. VirtualBox also supports others ways of connecting to the network such as a bridge adaptor.

My current setup: I have one virtual machine running Ubuntu 9.04 where I have all my development tools and languages installed (ruby, php, python etc). I run VirtualBox 3.0.8 on my MacOS laptop. This way I can be as close to the server environment as possible while building my applications. I run Apache, Passenger, PHP, MySQL on the guest machine and just forward 22 (ssh), 80 (http) and 3306 (mysql) to MacOS this way I can use apps like MySQL workbench to play with my database or Textmate to code.

The AirJaldi mesh network is located in and around Dharamshala. The network can be considered as one of the largest mesh networks in the world. It covers over a hundred kilometers of rough terrain with a number of mountains and hills. Most of the network is situated in the foothills of the western Himalayan ranges. The network has already provided Internet access to over 2000 computers. The backbone is comprised of 30 nodes. More information on mesh networks and infrastructures in Dharamshala will be furnished in a follow-up article.

We have finally stopped accepting applications for the internship program. Now this is where the grunt work begins. We have started the phone interview process. The application turn out was better than expected, we got about 57 entries. I will be spending the weekend generating some nice charts and stats about the people who applied (age, locations etc).

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A while back I was in Delhi, with Richard Stallman. FSF India and the CPIM were working together on the removal of software patent.

A friend just sent me the url that we have finally succeeded in doing so :) I am really happy for this, and glad that I was a part of this.

You can read the whole article here

Today Richard Stallman and I were at the India Internation center. Vandhana Shiva and a couple other organizations and political parties organized a meeting to counter the Patents issue that India is faced with currently.

Stallman and I were there to shed light on the issue of software idea patents. We also talked about how if software idea patents would affect the growth of the entire country.