February 2012
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December 2011
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stow - install software and bind them with...
Stow, the software I wish I had all the time which deploys with symlinks instead of actual binaries. homebrew already has this which allows it very easy to switch between versions and keeps the directory structure clean
Stow is a tool for managing the installation of multiple software
packages to a shared run-time directory tree (e.g. /usr/local) via
symlinks, whilst keeping the files from each...
November 2011
2 posts
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I have reason to believe www.letsbuy.com is running OSCommerce .
Reason: Google for error which you find at letsbuy.com/
USB Drive Reinvented | Remote File Access Made... →
October 2011
6 posts
Maverick Ubuntu 10.10 on VirtualBox - Guest... →
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
Finally installed ubuntu and its working !
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vim on rails →
Time Saving Tricks →
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git-dude: Lightweight Git commit notifier for... →
thechangelog:
You might have seen our post last year on Gitifier, the Git commit notifier for OSX. If you prefer something a bit more *nix-y, check out git-dude from Marcin Kulik. Git-dude is a command line utility that monitors Git repos and provides desktop notifications using Growl on OSX or libnotify on Linux.
Configuration is done in the standard Git way:
git config --global...
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$30 tablet in India ? Beats the bloddy fire →
September 2011
8 posts
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How to install ruby-1.9.3-rc1 using rvm
rvm adds ruby 1.9.3-rc1 into their set (ruby developer community announced it on last Saturday 24th Sep 2011). I tried this on a Mac. Should be the same on linux as well.
Before installing ruby 1.9.3-rc1 , you might want to check out what is being deprecated and what is being added in future versions of ruby. There is a blog post on rubyinside about this.
rvm install 1.9.3-rc1
rvm use...
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How to avoid git commits using the wrong profile
Have you ever committed to the right repo using the wrong profile? I have, so many times that I have lost count. It has always been a pain for me to remember which git account (office, personal, etc) I was currently logged into before making a commit.
I am sure there are many people out there facing the same problem. An article from one of the ruby articles led me to gas (stands for ‘Git...
Digitally sketch on paper with Wacom's Inkling |... →
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11 Tools to Instantly Code Faster | Nettuts →
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How to fix bookmarklets for broken Google Reader...
Fixing the bookmarklets in the ‘Goodies’ tab in Settings Page of Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/view/#overview-page . It’s broken for users using multi login.
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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography (Pre-order at... →
August 2011
5 posts
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Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue… I’m so confused! →
catch and throw in ruby . nice tutorial
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letsbuy.in coupon 15% or Rs1000 off max
Got the coupon to buy from LetsBuy.in from a friend.
Looks like its only 1 time per email id/mobile number. The details of the coupon are below and is not applicable for COD.
RCOMLB1 is the coupon code. You get 15% off and the maximum is Rs 1000 per emailid/mobile number combination and is valid from 16th May 2011 till 30th Sep 2011 .
Worklog from Firebug . I really have to agree , its...
Cross-Browser CSS in Seconds with Prefixr |... →
Sarcasan: You and your DSLR →
sarcasan:
When Manmohan Singh opened up the economy, little did he know the ramifications of it. Yes, we have great plasma TVs, IT jobs and foreign cheerleaders in our tournaments and calendars. But it has brought in some side effects as well. As I browse through my Facebook feed through various tinted…
July 2011
1 post
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Official Portal 2 Website - Music →
Volume II of Portal 2 music are now free ! ( Volume I is still free )
June 2011
3 posts
Resume scp after a lost connection
thecakeisaliein:
If you lose your network while doing
scp file_name remote-host:/path/
you can run the following command to resume your scp.
rsync —partial —progress —rsh=ssh file_name remote-host:/path/
By default rsh is not secure. Hence we tunnel using ‘—rsh=ssh’ option.
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What can possible go wrong in an evening
realizing the procedure you were following since 6 times is bad
raining when stepped out of the office
power cut on the street I travelled on along with the traffic travelling at 3kmph
stuck in rain on bike for 20 min
delayed the plan by 3 hours
I was excited when I saw the smoke as the rain drops try to cool off the hot tar that is being laid on the flyover that is to be opened in the next...
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Mac/PC : Portal 2 in India
I was browsing for new movies yesterday in a store and came across the Portal 2 PC/Mac game which sells for Rs. 699 in the store. The game costs $50 on Steam and $30 at Amazon . Flipkart sells it for Rs 622( ~$13 ).
Though eventually Steam could get the pricing down to $10, its a good grab if you do not want to carry CDs around since Steam manages your games and progress on the cloud.
If you...
May 2011
20 posts
“అదృష్టం అడ్డం తిరిగితే అరటిపండు తిన్నా పన్ను విరుగుతుంది”
– ‘వేదం’ సినిమా (via thecakeisaliein)
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This is the first idea I have got the revenue model figured out, but not clear on what to put on the site for the domain www.begwithme.com . Its plain simple social begging :) . A group of beggers forming a group online, not to be confused with buywithme.com (social buying / groupon style)
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Changing the TZ info in any Linux Distro
If you wish to use Indian timezone on your EC2 or any linux host which is showing the date output in a different timezone , use
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime
If you want to temporarily use a TimeZone, use the following and all the commands that use the TZ variable like date show the information in that timezone
export TZ=Asia/Calcutta
Cyberciti.biz
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Location of a url being served from
I always wondered which servers do Indian websites like Flipkart use for static content . Websites like whoishostingthis.com make it super easy to figure out where the server is hosted instead of parsing out the data from the whois records.
Check out http://www.whoishostingthis.com/img4.fkcdn.com for one of their image servers. Considering most of the visitors are from India, I assumed,...
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figured out that facebook can’t display more than 109 images when sharing a link
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Redirecting your domain from yourname.github.com...
(subdomain) ->
github.com provides a way for you to set your website inside github.com as a repository. Both public and private repositories can be setup as a public website here.
I just grabbed sairam.github.com to point to my website sair.am :)
More details at http://pages.github.com/
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Redirect your queries from old website to the...
If you decided to move from tumblr blog / pages from your top level domain to a subdomain like blog.example.in .
Add the entry in your .htaccess to allow Apache send all requests from /post to the new subdomain which Tumblr is right now hosting (blog.example.in).
Redirect 301 /post http://blog.example.in/post
301 Redirect is a permanent move. Ideally, the same client would not query the same...
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Parallax + JQuery
A similar plugin to JParallax (demos) was used to implement this . I get a 2.5D (neither 2D nor 3D) feel, which is usually how its done in few video games / html5 games.
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WatchGitHubs’s 404 error is too cool :) ( JQuery + Parallax )
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Rails is on the run with 3.1beta1 released
Rails releases the 3.1 beta1. SASS and CoffeeScript are present by default. JQuery is the new prototype.
[Changelog] [Railscasts]
clientsfromhell:
So, I met with a used car dealership for a potential website project. The owner fulfilled every stereotype of a used car salesman, from the velour jumpsuit to the gold chains. The meeting is best summed up by this amazing question, (please read in thick NY accent): “So… like uh… When you build dis website…. You gotta do it in my garage or what?!”
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BeamTelecom ups its speed from 4Mbps to 15Mbps
You wont believe this, but, I got a text from BeamTele.com (was beamcable , only available in Hyderabad) that the connection speed has been upgraded to 15Mbps . I am not aware if this is temporary or permanent. I ran over to speedtest.net to verify the authenticity of the text. The Speedtest site uses Flash to pull up the numbers and here are the results.
The sad thing is there no word about...
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TODO lists
Background on TextMate : TextMate is one of the best text editors for Mac OS. SeeWikipedia for timeline. The only downside some users see is it costs for the license ~ $58 or INR 2600 . People tell me its worth the money. TextMate 2 (which is supposed to be cooler than TexMate 1 ) is in development since couple of years and due to be released later this year .
How often are TODO lists...
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Debugging #fail
I got an email from Delicious to agree to their new T&C because of the change in ownership. After completing the formalities, I get a confirmation email with the originating IP of generation of address as 127.0.0.1 , lol ! That’s localhost :P
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How NOT to list available page numbers in a...
This is how you SHOULD not list the available page numbers in a website !!
The image took less space than the other links below !
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Customizing Dictionary in Mac OS X
macminin:
Type in ⌘+ , to open Preferences in the Dictionary.app . Click on Wikipedia . Choose your language to search wikipedia from for queries.
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Amazon.com Operations aka Oncall
If you are curious to know what ‘Oncall at Amazon’ is, I came across a document on Advanced Tools for Operators at Amazon.com . Check out the Failures and Resolvers section to get an idea on what Oncall is . Read the rest of the document too. Its pretty interesting.
April 2011
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Data from AWS/S3 after 2 years
2 years back : Tried out S3 with various options
3 months back : Re-enabled S3 on account and got billed unnecessarily
today : Realized that there were 40k+ log files each of size close a KB lingering in the S3 Bucket
now : running the command on the bitgeek.in assuming it would help me with the lantencies ( compared to requests from/to India to US )
s3cmd rb —recursive...
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FriendFeed on Facebook →
Friendfeed was my world of information (and of course to pass time) before I used Facebook . Friendfeed can also be viewed from Facebook.