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2014

Meaning of Life, Derek Sivers

2 years ago, I watched this video by Derek Sivers and found it really inspiring: Why You Need to Fail. He recently re...

Export blogger/blogspot blog to jekyll

This python code imports your blogger/blogspot posts and writes them down in jekyll format.

Bin Tere (Unplugged) Reprise

Recorded the Bollywood track ‘Bin Tere (Unplugged) reprise’ from the movie ‘I hate love stories’ at the Hunt Library’...

Coconut Chutney

Recipe to make coconut chutney

A-Maze: Building computer generated mazes

Recently came across an article talking about building a perfect maze. They use a simple DFS algorithm: 1) Start at ...

2013

Attach money in email

Just noticed the ‘attach money’ button in the Gmail compose windows!

Drop down terminals

I like drop down terminals. They’re something I can’t live without.Since a lot of time I had been using the Gnome she...

2012

MEB - Taking Incremental Backup using last successful backup

Published another post on MySQL Enterprise Backup at Oracle blogstoday.\ \A new prefix‘history:’ hasbeen introduced ...

Published post on incremental backups

Published a post on incremental backups using MySQL Enterprise Backup3.7.0 at Oracle blogs :here\ \ \

2011

Favorite Geek&Pokes

Some of my favoriteGeek&Pokes:\ http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/12/the-hard-life-of-a-nosql-code...

2010

Google calendar quick add

Often in Google Calendar, quick add can prove to be very helpful andmore importantly - fast. With intelligent keyword...

Private sidewiki?

I was wondering if there’s something like a private ‘google sidewiki’ inwhich the entries are not actually published ...

Device Set Up Instructions- Nokia 6300

To set up Google Sync on a Nokia 6300 phone, please follow these steps:\ \ \ http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin...

C:/Windows/Installer directory overflowing bug?

DISCLAIMER: I accept no liability for the content of this post, or forthe consequences of any actions taken on the ba...

A regular expression to check for prime numbers

A regular expression to check for primenumbers

Merge Sort with Python

Here’s a code for merge sort in Python. Drop in suggestions for a moreoptimized code. ..\{style="font-family:arial;fo...

Using JavaFX objects in Java code

Using JavaFX objects in Javacode\The link above points to an amazing article regarding conversion ofJavaFx objects fo...

Importing H2 database in RapidMiner 5

Hi! Here’s the configuration to import your H2 database in Rapidminer:\ \ \ \ Add the H2 driver to RapidMiner: Go to...

Restoring Ubuntu 9.10 in GRUB menu after a windows install

It becomes a bit tricky in Ubuntu 9.10 to rewrite MBR because of thenewer version of GRUB: GRUB 2. You can follow the...

Google Says There Are Now 30,000 Apps In Android Market

Google Says There Are Now 30,000 Apps In AndroidMarket:“\\At the most recent Mobile World Congress, GoogleCEO Eric Sc...

Interesting way of presenting

I found this interesting presentation on Python cross-platform apps, andI found more interesting is the ‘way’ it is h...

An Excellent book for R Graphics

\RGraphics\ Paul Murrell, The University of Auckland, New Zealand\ Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer Science &a...

Quark 2010 - Coding Event Details

Programmers’ InQ {style=”font-size: 22px; margin-top: 0px; “}**Prizes worth Rs. 63,000 to be won\**The cyber world is...

Quark 2010

Assembly Language Coding Event !!

Terminator 1.0\At Quark 2010, we are organizing a uniqueevent in which coders have to compete in simple assembly lang...

My first post as a Software Development Intern @ DataminingTools Inc.

Here’s the link to my first post as a software development intern atDataminingTools Inc.Its about the major developme...

2009

An excellent resource for starting off with spectral analysis using MATLAB

An excellent resource for starting off with spectral analysis usingMATLAB:http://www.etsu.edu/math/seier/tperiodogram...

Google Fast Flip !

\Here’s some fresh google technology to answer the needs of sloggynetworks (like that of my college) that remove the ...

GSOC- BITS Pilani goa Campus in Top 10 Schools in 2009 by

Ah! here’s some awesome news for my college! In Google Summer of Code,it ranks in the top 10 Schools in 2009 by numbe...

Pidgin 2.6.1 is here !

\\\A major upgrade of the favorite universal chat client ‘Pidgin’ has beenreleased.\Detailed instructions of installa...

Apt-get- Cannot initiate the connection to 8080:80 (0.0.31.144).

I’ve seen this problem sometimes cropping up! One of the reasons thisproblem can occur is when your http_proxy variab...

Space Invaders FX - Part 2

\\\So, continuing with my last post where I described the ‘tanks’ class, wewill discuss the ‘monster’ class in this p...

Space Invaders FX - Part 1

Ohk, so I wrote this simple game in JavaFX, named it Space Invaders FX..\\The entire source code for the game can be ...

Installing adobe flash plugin on Ubutnu 9.04 ( Jaunty )

I found a way to install the adobe flash plugin on my ubuntu box. Tillnow I was trying to install the .deb package fr...

Idea Netsetter on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope - Step by step procedure

It took some time but I managed to configure the Idea Netsetter wirelessUSB plug and surf device on my Ubuntu laptop....

Useful command to edit .conkyrc

Friends this is a simple command I use whenever I edit my conkyrc file:\\$while true; do conky -q -i 10; sleep 3; don...

Switching to ( or changing ) static IP address on Ubuntu Intrepid

Today, somehow the network of my college got reconfigured or something,and all subnets got changed hostel wise. Hence...

Problems in installing Netbeans IDE 6.5 on Ubuntu Intrepid [solved]

I had some problems installing the Netbeans IDE 6.5 on Ubuntu Intrepid.After running the file netbeans-6.5-python-lin...

note

I’ve changed the URL (from linuxlark.blogspot.com totechnolark.blogspot.com) and the name of this blog. Please bear w...

Thunderbird wrap text problem [sloved]

Well, I saw many people having problem with Thunderbird not wrappingtext at the default set 72 chars. Huh, I figured ...

Disabling remote access to phpmyadmin

I installed the LAMP + phpmyadmin combo yesterday on my Ubuntu Intrepidmachine for hosting a local website.\But later...

How to write html tags in blog posts

In the course of writing my previous post, I also learnt how to writehtml tags like <hello> in blog posts. All ...

Project download manager

Ohk guys .. I am starting off with building a GUI based download managerfor Linux. I found this excellent tutorial on...

2008

JAVA Swing and AWT applications freezing in Ubuntu

Now I had been facing this problem from quite some time, but recentlyfound a quick solution. Well, by default, the sy...

How to fix the No Sound problem in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)

You might have come across the ‘no sound’ problem after a freshinstallation of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. Well, there are ...

Virtualbox resolution problem

Problem: Guest machine doesn’t switch to full screen even afterinstalling VBox additions.\\One possible solution:\Swi...

The GUI doesn't load, shows a crappy binary screen with hell lot of cursors !

The GUI doesn’t load, shows a crappy binary screen with hell lot ofcursors !\\Possible\Solution: ‘sudo dpkg-reconfigu...

My google notebook for 'Voice recognition using MATLAB'

Hello people, m currently working on a project ‘Speech Recognition’,\here’s the link to my research notebook:\\http:/...

Whew !! New blog!!

Yeah, I started this new blog ,\Normally, everytime I used to do something crazy, I summarized it out ina PDF and kep...

Importing Contacts from Gmail to Thunderbird.

Initially, I exported the Gmail address book, in the .csv format andtried to import the file in Thunderbird, but ther...

Configuring Thunderbird for Gmail.

Configuring Thunderbird in UBUNTU for downloading Gmail messages usingPOP:\Now , this was something that caused me a ...