For some reasons, IDG’s main production system, as well as mine (Athlon XP 2600+, 512 Megs of RAM), decided to go bonkers. IDG’s box won’t start at all, while mine would start after an almost endless cycle of turning it on and off. I decided to run memtest86, which gave me around 700 errors in the first 5 minutes, and then it hung. Very nice - I said to myself, and opened up the box. Apparently, one of the larger capacitors of the motherboard has gone kaput, and IDG reports that in his mobo, around 5/6 capacitors have leaked/burnt up. So both of us are working exclusively from the laptops.

This is bad news for GRIND, since the big machine was my primary workhorse, and running heavy duty compile jobs on the laptop is next to impossible (I don’t even have enough hard disk space).


Normally, I would have blamed the Taiwanese crappy capacitor manufacturers. However, with IDG’s production system going down simultaneously, I am inclined to believe that we are the first victims of a heinous evil conspiracy aimed at destroying the very core of the Free Software based Indic l10n movement.

….yessss.. I am a conspiracy theorist.