Kapil Hari Paranjape

• [issue 156] Not Screws and Bolts
• [issue 150] Virtualizing without Virtualizing
• [issue 141] Who is using your Network?
• [issue 140] Setting up an Encrypted Debian System
• [issue 138] Debian on a Slug: Or how a Slug made friends with a GNU and a Penguin
• [issue 136] A Report on SCaLE5x
• [issue 114] Right To Your Own Devices
• [issue 113] Roll your Desktop into a USB stick/CD
• [issue 110] A Knight's Tour on OCaml (when a Python fails to digest it)
• [issue 104] How To Make a StereoGram with GIMP, Blender and StereoGraph

Kapil Hari Paranjape has been a ``hack''-er since his punch-card days. Specifically, this means that he has never written a ``real'' program. He has merely tinkered with programs written by others. After playing with Minix in 1990-91 he thought of writing his first program---a ``genuine'' *nix kernel for the x86 class of machines. Luckily for him a certain L. Torvalds got there first---thereby saving him the trouble (once again) of actually writing code. In eternal gratitude he has spent a lot of time tinkering with and promoting Linux and GNU since those days---much to the dismay of many around him who think he should concentrate on mathematical research---which is his paying job. The interplay between actual running programs, what can be computed in principle and what can be shown to exist continues to fascinate him.