Inside Out

Great at craft

I came across this nugget while reading a bit about photography and art. It is so much tempting to replace photography with programming.Is…

Tactical steps

We tried to frame some of the obstacles to longer term thinking on resourcing in the last post. Architectural thinking is one of the those…

Fixing resourcing

We talked about getting help in the last post. The challenge is with lack of resources for funding critical long term projects. Let’s break…

On resourcing and engagement

Getting help is top of mind for me this week.As an architect, we juggle with several things. Current state of the product, the consumer’s…

Subjects and objects

It appears one of two things happen in our process of understanding.We get so much absorbed in certain attributes or outcomes that we lose…

As an interviewer

The highest order bit is ensuring that the interviewee has a great time for that hour. It means that the interviewer must be compassionate…

Simple wikipedia dataset

We are releasing a cleaned and labeled dataset for the english Simple Wikipedia at github. Every article is labeled with categories. The…

Like a tree

On one opinion proving the existence of another.When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some…

Patience and maturity

One activity I’m doing these days is consciously forming an opinion about product or strategy decisions irrespective of whether the…

Not so crazy infinite trees

We considered a problem with infinitely expandable trees in last post and discussed two challenges with some solutions. This post takes a…

Crazy infinite trees

These days we are talking about all kinds of inconsequential trivia here. Let’s brainstorm about some UX affordances today.Problem: design a…

Architect's dilemma

Let’s talk about three insights on an architect’s role: vision, alignment and stakeholders. We believe these may help on the journey…

Slow dns resolution and IPv6

In some lan setups (e.g. you’re using a pihole), DNS resolution can be extremely slow due to AAAA records. Under the hood, sends (ipv…

What to make

Students of computer science get taught, at places like Stanford and MIT, how to make things. But they don’t get taught — at least not in a…

Two organization structures

Say you own a large company of several thousand employees and wish to extend it across the ocean in a different geography. How would you go…

Choosing a team

In a recent retrospective, I realized my perspective on composition of great team changes every ~1.5 years. So the question emerged - is…

Business value or Customer value

Each of us have various set of motivations for work. For some of us it is intellectual, others find rewards (monetary or otherwise) exciting…

Understanding customers

You recently started owning a feature in a product. The feature and set of underlying services are several years old. Some aspects are…

Let's talk about perceptions

There are two ways to define perception. First, knowledge of things obtained with our senses objectively. Second, perception is the way…

A purpose for the product

There’s a constant tug of war between building a product with superior capabilities or one that is boring but solves a problem. Which one…

Understanding vocabularies

We will talk about languages, their importance and motivation in a human perspective today. This is the first in a series of posts around…

On common nouns

Dear Self,Stop using common nouns to address people.Let me clarify that for you. You have colleagues, partners and customers from various…

Better code reviews

This weekend I’ve been thinking about the most productive code reviews in some of the teams I’ve worked with. This post lays down some (very…

Setting up python home in vim

We discussed about python vim interop sometime back. We figured how vim picks up the python interop lib from the system location instead of…

The right thing

It’s a long weekend here. Happy easter, dear readers! Also happens to be the end of current fiscal year in India. A good time to analyze the…

Test driven setup with tmux and entr

This post provides a setup for test driven development with instant feedback. You can use any editor with your favorite test runner for any…

Habito 1.0.0 released

Habito v1.0.0 shipped few minutes ago! Grab the latest and greatest bits from pypi.Habito is a command line tool to track habits. It keeps a…

Semantic commits for git

As a developer, we spend everyday in a plethora of development activities. While the processes (agile, scrum etc.) ensure all of them add…

Python pipfiles and packaging

I’m happy to announce the first release of bout. It parses the pdf bank statements and exports the transactions to QIF format.I got an…

Streaming AIR

I recently came across the All India Radio online streaming service available at http://allindiaradio.nic.in. This post will talk a bit…

Notes on vim python interop

I stumbled upon an interesting problem with language service for python. On digging further, realized that I’ve been thinking incorrectly…

OmniSharp on linux

Few notes on my setup of OmniSharp with vim. OmniSharp provides a cross platform language service for .NET on any editor.InstallationUse…

Hadoop cluster in docker

We will talk about a hadoop playground for learning and experimentation. Our goal is to get a hadoop cluster with three nodes, store some…

By example

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. … For sheep don’t…

Notifications in qt over DBus

Let’s talk about notifications in linux.A notification is one of the simplest way to let the customer know about the status or progress of…

Ratpoison to i3

I’ve been an happy user of ratpoison for a good part of the past decade. Truth be told, I sinned once in between tempted by musca (a…

This sprint in vstest: Sprint 121

This post takes a snapshot of the updates in vstest repository for the period 27th June, 2017 to 27th July, 2017. ActivityPull Requests (3…

How dotnet test works?

This post walks through the internals of command. We will look at bits and pieces of code on the way.A command line toolsetThe dotnet…

Archlinux on Azure

This post covers the steps required to get an Archlinux virtual machine up in Azure.azure and archlinuxAzure documentation has a guide for…

Generator for visualstudio task extensions released

Happy to announce the release of a yeoman based generator for Visual Studio Team Services tasks and extensions. Here’s the screencast :)Get…

A dark firefox

You’ll love this if you’re a fan of dark themes, or you work on a dark terminal (vim-hybrid, eh?) and switch to firefox often. Still not…

This I

We smile often, and sometimes we shed tears. We run everywhere, beyond all those fears.We create awesome things, and share the joy. We don’t…

Misguided metrics

Few months ago, I set myself a goal of number of words written every day; a quantifiable target for every day. Every day I miss the target…

Reverse Impressions

This mind creates impressions based on impressions. If we like someone, their opinions and values form a part of our decision(or judgement…

PyQt5 install by archive extraction

We assume you’re trying to build a python qt app on a dev box or a build machine (for a CI setup). You need to install for various reasons…

Sympathy vs Empathy

In the book, Subject to Change, authors explain the concepts of sympathy and empathy very well. It got me into a series of thoughts.Let me…

A definition of Ownership

Ownership is about clarity. About a sense of direction, where the product should reach in a near short term. The direction must also provide…

On building a habit

The first ingredient is belief in magic. If you persist on the activity, or build a habit of that, good things will happen around you…

What are we doing next?

We take the current experience we provide for a solution to a problem. We then question it until we arrive at a set of principles for the…

On the choices in a strategy

Strategy is all about how we achieve a mission.It is about the choices on the road to fulfilment.Each choice must have a rationale, a…

Focus on the act

One way is the focus on “I have to post something today”.And the other, is to just get your fingers on the keyboard and type away…One way…

A what and a why for product strategy

What do customers want?Some of my entrepreneur friends say they chant that three times every morning.When I asked this question, my…

A lesson on clarity

Say you’re a small business, with quite a few raving fans and a big vision for your product. You’re steadily building the product, one step…

And a VM in the clouds

So we got our shiny new box setup with vagrant-azure. It was as easy as a few commands…Now we’re onto the part where azure throws cryptic…

A trip to Java and Bali: the plan

We celebrated christmas and 2015 new year in Java and Bali. We will publish our experience in a series of posts. You’re on the first one…

DIY - Ghost (from git) on Openshift

The easiest way to get started in less than an hour with your own ghost deployment is ghost quickstart for openshift. It’s a great reference…

Reason

Did I even see? May be not.I was blinded by the brilliance.Or lost in the mystic darkness.Did I hear that? May be not.I was deafened by own…

Will you accept

Stuck at a moment without a choice, like an old unwound wall clock.. Tell me, what should I treasure, the words, the imagery or the shock…

Will you be

Almost thirty eight hours since I have been looking for that. It’s not there. I dismissed it yesterday, calling it a glitch. I had so much…

Not a choice

Being together was not a choice, nor sharing those moments.. Smiling with you was not a decision, neither were the myriad discussions.nor…

Run, Forrest, Run

You made it, my dear friend! You sprang from the ground… broke the doubts… those assumptions and fears that were holding you… you’re free…

Replenishment

They were sharp, charged with energy and an unquenchable drive for change. They had a dream to positively impact our day-to-day activities…

Patch: metaclass conflict in comtypes for python 3.3.2

You’d see following stacktrace (issue reported here).  Until we have an official fix, a temporary patch is available on this gist. Tested on…

Perspectives

Far far away, in the lap of the Himalayas, there were two travellers. They had been travelling for a day. Their mission - to safely reach…

The extremes

Immense is the pain of absence. Whether I wake up here in bed, or on a train thousand miles away; looking out my window or at the beautiful…

Near and far

Nothing is lost, oh dear Timeless is that creation.. So delicately nourished, Without any expectation.Like an act that needs reason…

You are me

Come, come to me, oh dear, Take a sip of my nectar.. Says the flower to the bee. Sing tunes of love and spread the joy, I exist to serve…

Perfect one

I think you have that spark. You can relate to things. You can wade across an ocean of patterns and pick up the beautiful paintings in those…

An end

We learn from the world. We learn from the nature, its myriad creations, the things and the beings; depending on our ability to perceive…

On nothing

It’s been almost six months since I signed up on this experiment - to do nothing.

Along the path

Why do I need to reach the summit? Is there a destination? A creation, a beginning or an end; I need none. There is no crest or trough…

Opposites

Beautiful things are moulded when the right amounts of opposites get together. Similar principle applies to us, as individual and teams.

The flow

.. so let me put it this way.

Satisfaction

Do you define it as “value added” or the “awesomeness of the journey”?

An experiment, shipped!

One evening in August 2012, I and a friend were taking a stroll around Building 3 Campus. We had just signed off on a big product release…

Disable resharper temporarily

Modify this registry key:“IsSuspended”=“True”I usually setup this registry before running automated tests against Visual Studio, so R# doesn…

Thinkers and leaders

ThinkingWe talked a while ago about not looking for existing solutions; instead ponder over a problem for few days, bring out your…

Don't look for existing solutions

During the shower, you had an awesome idea, what if you know; I could just speak out code instead of typing ;)

Awesome hiring pitch

“We are inventing the future,” Jobs told him at the end of a three-hour pitch. “Think about surfing on the front edge of a wave. It’s really…

Setup moinmoin as a personal wiki

Moinmoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python language.

Collection of Hrishikesh Mukherjee movies

Anand (1971 film) Anand (1971 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wordpress, tumblr, posterous and back

Indic language translation, wikipedia and school curriculum

This post is inspired by TED talk by Prof. Luis von Ahn on Massive-scale online collaboration.

Gnome-shell pomodoro extension v0.5 released

We just wrapped up the 0.5 release for gnome-shell pomodoro extension. Grab it from github or extensions.gnome.org.Gnome-shell-pomodoro…

Debugging properties in msbuild

The Projecttask defines an interesting entrypoint called InitialTargets, it isrun before actually building the project (defined in…

Notes on NDIS drivers

Download this file

Convert number formats in windbg

Using .formats {#usingformats}Hex: 183616ac Decimal: 406197932 Octal: 03015413254 Binary: 00011000 00110110 00010110 10101100 Chars: .…

Organizing test plan

A test plan is more about finding the “right” scenarios than listing “all” scenarios. The later always deceives you by creating a false…

Back to todo lists

Book notes: Jack Welch - Straight from the Gut

Book: Jack Welch - Straight from the Gutauthor: Jack WelchRating: 3/5Building self confidence in others is a huge part of leadership. It…

Book notes: Delivering happiness

Book: Delivering Happinessauthor: Tony HseihRating: 4/5

Debugging python with pdb++

Lessons on writing vim plugins

Windows Phone: Store unit test results to isolated storage

Why Your Passion for Work Could Ruin Your Career

More learning

As a teacher

India Journal: Can India Reap an ‘Education Dividend?’

Google on Innovation

It's good to timeout

You can’t send a Duck to Eagle School

Solar electrification and Barefoot College

On passion

Math Skool

Hello World!

The God

“Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why…

Morning thoughts

Life makes lot of sense in retrospection. Now if I can make the present sensible, each moment of it, I will transcend the petty thoughts and…

Gnome shell pomodoro extension

Gnome shell pomodoro extension

An aha

So what’s an “aha” - What.. the problem..? hmm.. ok.. aha! But..? hmm.. ok.. aha! Oh, true true.. How about…? hmm… ok.. aha!

Attention is like...

.. sunshine to humans. What we give our attention to, grows. What we ignore, withers.

Gnome3: Changing the icon theme

Gnome-shell is the thing; /me is back to gnome again. Almost 4 days without ratpoison, that’s the longest since 2007 :) I had small stints…

3 A's of Awesome

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Create and escape

In the beginning the problem is “to create”. Solve it. You rejoice in your creation, over indulge and then the problem is “to escape” :P You…

My USB stick setup

Some notes on setting a portable development environment in a USB stick. Ah well, let me start from the end. Here’s how my setup looks like…

Weekly update: 1-2011

Here’s the weekly round up on my Priorities for 2011:KnowledgeWritingCodeLiving

Bring it on, 2011!

Happy new year to everyone!Let us make rapid strides towards our goals. Let us correct our mistakes and strike with redoubled force.

Vim patched builds for Win32

For Win32, you can get the latest vim bits (built from latest mercurial repo) at following places:TuxMan’s buildsFull package available as…

Ruby plugins and vim on win32

I recently came across a two awesome file/buffer utilities for vim. Unfortunately all of them were blocked due to a ruby/vim interop issue…

Ratpoison and dmenu

I came across dmenu while setting up Musca. This nifty utility which takes a list of strings as input and creates a menu from it. Why use it…

Facts tell, Emotions sell

Recently read this concept in a book by Philip Khan-Panni. Here’s my interpretation for a scenario where sales guy is selling a phone to an…

Console color schemes

Console gives life to your cmd/powershell in windows. It features tabbed terminals/alpha and much more. If you’re used to screen/mrxvt/urxvt…

Content filters

Over the last few weeks, I have been experimenting with various content filters. The experiment is mainly geared towards a crazy idea of…

Input hotplugging and usb mouse

After loosing few matches on FICS on time control, poor me realized that it’s the mouse which matters when you’ve 10-20 seconds to mate. So…

Ignore channel join/part messages in irssi

Add the following block into ~/.irssi/config:

Debugging Procmail Recipes

Three steps to nirvana:Disable the catch-all recipe!Still stuck, use printfs :-) In recipes, put in some to check control flow.

A wrapper for osd_cat

Few months ago, we discussed about a mail notification method for fetchmail/procmail and mutt combo. As you can see in that post, the script…

C# and VIM

Let’s explore some of the tweaks to improve C# experience in Vim. All of the tips in this article can be applied to .Net Framework/Windows…

Global command in VIM

Well you guessed it right, the “global” command (or :g in command mode) will let you select lines that match a particular pattern globally…

New mail notification with Procmail

Problem: I have my local mail setup with mutt, fetchmail and procmail. And I would need a way to run an arbitrary script when new mail…

[Update] Download youtube videos in linux

I had posted long back about a bash wrapper over youtube-dl to fetch youtube videos using your own download manager. The youtube-dl script…

How to choose a web host

Lemme shout it aloud: I am a big fan of free webhosts :) Until recently, one of my friends made me realize(brainwashed!) that probably I had…

Sistine: A sify broadband client

Sify provides a connection client(they call it BBClient) for linux. If you use bbclient on *nix, these would have hit you:Usage: Login…

3 should-use vim plugins

The first two are very useful, if you kill bugs for a living (read debugging freak).TimestampLast Modified: TIMESTAMP

Dance On..

vimeo 1211060

E17 and fake transparency

E17 stores the background images in edje file format. Edje (*.edj) is a binary file format which compresses the images quite a bit and has…

Real transparency in urxvt

Add the following lines to the ~/.Xdefaults to get a transparent urxvt terminal: urxvtbackground: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd

Testing Vimpress

Vimpress is a script for VIM which allows posting to wordpress blogs from the best $EDITORhttp://www.friggeri.net/projets/vimpressCiao

Play chess with god

That was the topic of my talk on “How computers play chess”. Here’s the link to the presentation at scribd.Tags: chesslife php

Convert CSV files into LDIF

These days I’m using Claws Mail to fetch my GMail stuff into my box. So I faced this problem of getting my GMail contacts into Claws Mail…

How to : Setup a Local DNS Cache

DNS(Domain Name System) is used to get the ip addresses of the domains. Basically whenever we enter an address in our browser, the browser…

Removing orphan packages with Pacman

A quick Arch tip : Get the list of orphan packages (packages no longer needed by any other packages) in pacman by with Tags: arch, pacman…

Proud Arch-er

After sticking with OpenSuSE for a long time (read 2 years), I finally got one of the bleeding edge distros : Arch Linux.Arch Logo Oh and…

Life is too short without man pages

More… Wikipedia [How to ask smart questions ?](http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html) // this is a must read [Man page…

Internal Port Redirection

This article will describe how to send packets destined to port x through a port y. Let me start off with the situation that led to port…

Introducing YART

YART (Yet Another Research Tool) is a project aimed to help the research/scholarly people organise the content they collect from the www or…

100000 Visitors !

Today we had the 100000th visitor to this blog :-)

Download YouTube Videos : The Linux Way !

In this article I will outline a few methods to download YouTube Videos to your system and getting them to play in your favorite player. We…

Connect to MSN, Yahoo, AIM using GTalk (psi)

Use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ. Here’s how, step-by-step with screenshots. This method works…

Happy new year !

New is the year,New are the hopes and the aspirations,New is the resolution,New are the spirits and forever my warm wishes are for you…

Google Master Plan

Wanna know what Google’s Masterminded Engineers are planning ?Check it out hereAwesome :-) Technorati Tags: google, web, google os

CVS Behind Firewall : Update

Here is one more method to connect to a CVS repository when you’re behind a firewall : Get the connect.c source file from http://www.taiyo…

Accessing CVS behind firewall

Most firewalls block access to port 2401 (the default port for anonymous cvs access). In such case, to access to cvs either you can use SSH…

Gtalk and Firewall

This will help if you’re behind a firewall (ports allowed are : 443, 80 and default ports 5222 not open).The client we would be using to…

MPD status in Gaim

I came across this nice plugin for Gaim called GaiMPD. This plugin will show the song you’re playing in MPD as a status message in GAIM.To…

Differences between SuSE 10.1 Boxed and SuSE 10.1 Internet

Check this link for a diff file showing the differences between SuSE 10.1 Boxed Set and the SuSE 10.1 Internet RPMs : http://drwetter.org…

Enlightenment 17 Repositories for SuSE Linux

List of repositories for Enlightenment 17 : SuSE Linux 9.3SuSE Linux 10.0SuSE Linux 10.1Adding these repositories in Yast2Open up a…

Yahoo and HTTP Tunneling..

This started around 9 AM in the morning. As usual when i started up Gaim to connect to Yahoo from my SuSE 10.1 Box, It won’t connect after…

Top 10 Excuses for not doing a Math Homework

I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.Isaac Newton’s birthday.I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I…

Enlightenment 17 in OpenSuSE 10.1

This article will list out the steps to get a e17 desktop(enlightenment 0.16.999.032) in OpenSuSE 10.1. update : There is an official SuSE…

Test test..

This is a test post using Bleezer :)Bold Strike Underline..Technorati: testPowered by Bleezer

Linked out..

Have a look at this link : http://www.ie7.com ;)Powered by Bleezer

Into blogging again..

Its been around 40days since i last posted in here..I had some really bad problems with my Internet Connections :( However its temporarily…

How to : Create keyboard shortcuts for MPC in e17

In this article, we will just make our CLI life a bit easier by implementing a few keyboard shortcuts for our Music Player Daemon (MPD…

MPD : Command Line MP3 Player

Here comes the next article in Command Line series. In the last article i had talked about a CLI (Command Line Interface) based Instant…

How to : JDBC with MySQL

JDBC (Java Data Base Connectivity) is the basic driver used to connect Java applets or applications to various databases. Here are some of…

CenterICQ : The Console Based IM Client

So you’re a Power User who spends most of his time in a Multitabbed Terminal Emulator with several tabs open (writing code, testing stuff…

TAB Completion in DOS

This is for people who love doing stuff in the CLI (Command Line Interface).. Playing around with the . / TAB keys ;)Navigate to Find the…

How To : Enlightenment 17 in Suse 10

Enlightenment 17 or E17 as it is generally called, is a cool Window Manager for X. The latest stable version of Enlightenment is E16 (0.16.…

AfterStep Terminal (aterm) in Suse 10

Afterstep Terminal or aterm is a highly configurable Terminal Emulator for the X. The most exciting feature offered by aterm is Transparency…

C Programming : Where to go for help ??

Listed below are some of the resources which i frequently visit to get help with programming in C :technorati tags:programming, c, java…

Which Linux Distro are you using ??

Here are a few ways to find out which linux distro you are using :Using /proc/versionThe output would be likeUsing /etc/issueThe output…

Its your PhD Advisor that really counts..

In a forest a fox bumps into a little rabbit, and says, “Hi, junior, what are you up to?” “I’m writing a dissertation on how rabbits eat…

Google Search : Is this an Error ??

While doing a search surprisingly google gave the following alert with some variables fv and xvI hope this is not a browser based error…

The VI Assistant..

Have you checked out the new VI Editor Assistant..take a look at it here

May you be blessed...

Have a look at this shockwave flash movie..sending out the waves of blessings.

Being a good Programmer..

I just got the book “The Pragmatic Programmer”..May be i would complete it this month..Hope i am in the right direction.Lets see..

Flock 0.7.0.10 : Little Hacks

Lemme start off with some small flock 0.7.0.10 hacks. All the hacks below are related to search engines so to get the search options : Type…

Back..

As i had promised..i am back :)

Please note..

This blog won’t be updated for a month..its better to confess that i am stuck with my exams for a month :( I will be back on May 19th…

Make Folders Nameless

Here is a trick to make your folders virtually nameless..technorati tags: folder without name, hacks

My Project : Paint ++

Its been quite a long time since i  last posted.. April being the last month of the current semester..we are fully loaded with assignments…

GAIM Commands..

Searching my favourite Buzz! button in GAIM i came across some most useful commands for GAIM… “/join ” : This command is used to join…

Richard Stallman Live...

It was RMS live yesterday !!Lemme try to put some of his words i liked most..According to rms, “Linux” is a kernel itself (most of us take…

Orkut in Flock 0.5.13

Whats up with me ??

For last 3 to 4 days i am pretty busy with my Computer Graphics project..I will be posting the screenshots quite soon..Till now i have…

MSN Live Messenger Invitations...

I have some MSN Live Messenger invitations with me.. Just comment in here if you want one..i will send you the invitation ;)

TextArc : Interesting way to view text

Ever wondered how would it be like to read a text in graphical fashion ?? Some quick notes :The applet places text at a position that is…

Windows Live Mail...

Finally i got a chance to have the Windows Live experience… All of this got started with an invitation to join the windows live messenger…

Best of me...

Why not have a collection of my favorites posts so far…A note on Yahoo Messenger Stealth Settings and how to break them !! Launch any…

Arise, awake and stop not...

*…till the goal is reached. *Why we disagree? [Paper on Hinduism](http://audio.theuniversalwisdom.org/paperonhinduism_vivekananda.mp…

Google : Interesting facts

Did you know !@#?Google uses the 20% / 5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people…

How much is your blog worth ??

Ever wondered how much is your blog worth… Do have a look @ How much is your blog worth? My blog is worth $4,516.32. How much is your…

How is this look...

Hey do you like this theme ?? May be that About page contents on the right are a bit odd :-s

Back...

After nearly a week of hectic work and some late night design sessions..finally the Engineer 2006 website is done !!Its the annual tech fest…

Great way to suicide...

Flock 0.5.13 out !!

Get the latest flock here technorati tags: flock

A small experiment...

One more experiment ;) I wanted to know more about the date and time problems showing up in wordpress posts..but i ended up in some more…

Did you notice that !!

Do you see something weird in this image ;)

Using Allegro with Anjuta...

Allegro is a simple game development library. More info on allegro is heretechnorati tags: anjuta, allegro, game development, linux

Control Panel shortcuts..

Searching for the shortcut to device manager..i came across these nice shortcuts for several control panel settings options for easy access…

The opensource journey begins...

A great day today :)So i headed onto the calendar directory and found where the error was !! and then just change the string and recompile…

Built Evolution...

I got the evolution from CVS and after a day of experiments finally built it succesfully :)./autogen.sh —prefix=/opt/evo/makeThen cd into…

This is life...

Have a look at this astounding story narrated by a teenage girl.. technorati tags: life, love

MyStickies : Sticky notes for webpages !!

Here is a Web 2.0 tool which will change the way you browse the world wide web ;) MyStickies is a nice extension to firefox (flock) which…

Create Shortcut to any Location in Run

This article helps if you have your data in a a very remote place (may be a hidden place) and you want to access it regularly so its a big…

Hide Windows Media Player !!

Here is a nice powertoys collection for the Windows Media Player 10 !Happy Multitasking and MP3ing !! technorati tags: wmp 10, hide…

Out of the Deadly zone now...

Finally the exams are over..The three or four days of exams really drain out all enthu off a guy loltechnorati tags: exams

Right from Flock 0.5.11

Have a look at the New Blog Editor (The TinyMCE Engine !!)May be i should strike this out Get the new flockLevel 1 technorati tags: flock…

As the Browsers see it..

Here are two different screenshots of Inside Out as Opera and Flock see it…

A geek test...

0% scored the same, and94% scored lower (less geeky). Compared to those in the same age group as you:0% scored the same, and96% scored lower…

Exams !!!

The devil strikes again…exams :(We are having exams from monday next week..I don’t think i will be able to post anything for next 8 days or…

Top 10 Reasons to Make your Computer your Valentine

Check out these reasons !1. A Computer can wait for you forever.2. A Computer does not compare you with it’s past users.3. A Computer does…

If love is...

Dedicated to the most beautiful girl on the Universe ;)Happy Valentine’s Day !!

CoComment : Keep track of your comments

Check this amazing webtool… coComment An innovative concept of keeping track of all your comments and discussions, currently it supports…

Yahoo Msngr : Breakthrough the stealth settings..

This article will show you how to know if you are being marked Permanent offline by a buddy. I have tested this method using Yahoo Messenger…

Launch any program from Run command...

This small hack tells how to launch any program from the Run command (win key + r)

Tickle your gray cells...

Our gray cells need some good exercises from time to time (to remain charged up and alert)…Here are 2 links which will make your gray cells…

Make 7 button mouse work in SuSE

This short how to tells how to make a 7button mouse work in opensuse.. Here are the default key mappings of the mouse :Search  for the…

Flock:Change Location bar search option

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The timestamp for this post is edited to 12th March, -0001 ;) 1st century BC :D

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