Hi, I am M K Saravanan. This is my personal home page.  I work at F5 Networks, Singapore as Enterprise Network Engineer.

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)

I was working in the VoIP area both at STMicroelectronics/Singapore and then at Aztech/Singapore, in the SIP protocol and associated applications. My SIP page.

Books

Over the years, I found some of the books very useful in my area of work (past & present). Book List

GNU/Linux

My Linux page is moved here.

Other Interests

• Project Madurai
• Distributed Proof Reading of Project Madurai
• Project Gutenberg
• Distributed Proof Reading of Project Gutenberg

Inspiring Gurus

• Marie Curie and Pierre Curie Both the Curies won the Nobel Prize. Marie Curie won twice once for Physics and again for Chemistry. Brief Biography of Marie Curie. Their daughter Irene Joliot-Curie and her husband Frederic Joliot also won Nobel Prize in recognition of their synthesis of new radio active elements.
  
   

  

  
  

  
  
• Lise Meitner
  
  
  
  
  
• Dennis M. Ritchie
• Brian Kernighan
• Douglas E Comer
• W Richard Stevens
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Donald E Knuth
• Richard M Stallman

Alma Mater

• MIT (Madras Institute of Technology)
• MIT Alumni Association - Singapore
• AU-KBC Research Centre
• Centre for Internet Research, NUS

Learning English for ESL students

• BBC Learning English
• Voice of America
• Purdue Univ. - Online Writing Lab resources
• IPA chart for English (British)

Learning Russian

• Learning Cyrillic Alphabet and Russian Flashcards - Declan Software for Russian
• The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners by Nicholas J. Brown
• The Oxford Starter Russian Dictionary by Della Thompson
• English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary - Kenneth Katzner
• Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar - James S. Levine
• Learning Russian Typing (Russian Keyboard Layout): SOLO Russian Typing Tutor - Ergosolo
• Easy Russian Phrasebook and Dictionary by Ann Rolbin
• Pimsleur Russian
• Rosetta Stone: Russian
• Master Russian
• Practise Russian

Learning German

• BBC Learning German
• Deutsche Welle Learning German
• For reading practise based on every day news: Spiegel
• For reading practise based on every day news: Tagesschau

Useful Software/Utilities

Below are some of the software programs or utility program that I find very useful for me on Windows platform.

• gvim
• Editplus
  
• XVI32 - Freeware Hex Editor
• cygwin - Linux like environment for Windows
• MikTeX
• Evernote
• IrfanView
• xplorer2 pro
• MWSnap
• BeyondCompare
• CompareIt
• Audacity
• Kat MP3 Recorder
• USB Safely Remove
• CCleaner
• Filezilla (ftp client/server)
• SuperMemo
• Vtrain
• Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program
• GnuCash - very useful for account management
• GhostView, GhostScript
• BootIt NG - Partition and multi-boot manager
• Wireshark, ndd, ntop, nmap, ngrep, netcat (and the usual ping, tcpdump, ifconfig, ipconfig, route, traceroute, netstat)
• Netstumbler
• CamStudio
• Mercurial (Hg) - Distributed Version Control
  
• Subversion (SVN) for version control
• Mantis - simple web based bug tracking system
• Redmine - for bug/change tracking as well as general Project Management
  
• NHM Writer - for typing Tamil (supports various keyboard layout and other Indian lang. too)
• Bullzip - Free PDF creator (via printing to a PDF file)
• Notepad2 - nice replacement for Notepad

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Last updated on 2011/07/12