Posts
2012-11-22
Just upgraded my MacBook Pro 2011 (early) from a 500GB Toshbia HDD to Crucial 256GB SSD! And I will let the numbers do the talking!
2011-08-14
I have written previously about our Republic day, and the importance of education from the grass root level, Gandhi’s ideology and his take…
2011-08-02
I have always used Random's nextInt() or nextLong(). So was curious on how 'random' is it actually? Then I found this protected method…
2011-06-14
Just configured aquamacs and it’s awesome! Simple and quick. Will put up my .emacs and other details soon on github here.
2011-05-31
Last week, me and 2 of my friends
2011-04-21
An interesting read about fixed intelligence and incremental intelligence covering one of the aspects, which is effort.
2011-04-06
What is Area42? Area is taken from Area51, because it's secret. 42 is the answer to everything.
2011-03-22
Just out of curiosity, I created this poll about the text editors and IDEs used by the awesome HackerNews community. I posted it on…
2011-01-06
In an organization of say 5, some times you need to give many people access to the same EC2 Instance. Sharing the private key and the…
2010-10-17
Obfuscated code is bad for the eyes, but a good exercise for the brain! I just came across this obfuscated code via notetoself.blogspot.com
2010-10-03
On October 2nd 1869, Putlibai Gandhi gave birth to Mohandas. The man who changed the world for ever. All of us know what he did and how he…
2010-09-05
My first rails 2.3.8 app. Hosted here: http://g33k.heroku.com
2010-08-27
One of the best speaks by Paul Graham!! PG speaking at the Business of Software conference.
2010-04-16
Australian Baz Luhrmann included this 'essay-song' in his album Something for everybody. The original essay — 'Advice, like youth, probably…
2010-01-25
Time to retrospect; during my school days, we had our daily prayers and we used to recite this poem by Tagore every day. At that time, we…
2010-01-19
Recently I can across this amazing blog post by Mr Sujai Karampuri, CEO, Sloka Telecom (It’s an Indian startup in the telecom sector). It…
2010-01-07
I recently came across this question, Why is March 14, 2015 9:26:53 important? I wondered, 'Is it a trick question?, Some body's birthday…
2010-01-07
I have been using Ubuntu 9.10 for a while now and one major copy-paste problem in Ubuntu (GNOME DE) struck me!!
2010-01-05
He is just a kid who had some videos uploaded from the Super Mario Bros like The Super Luigi Super Show: Luigi's Room, The Super Luigi…
2009-12-30
This logical puzzle is called Einstein’s Puzzle (its a variation of the original Zebra Puzzle by Einstein) because it is said to have been…
2009-12-12
My current JAVA project requires a lot of check points, for example, 1. if the format of the ID passed is correct, then go ahead and 2…
2009-12-04
Today, Google launched their new service, Google Public DNS for 'faster browsing experience'! (At the cost of vital technical details which…
2009-12-03
I came across this interesting white paper — Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies, 2009 published by Gartner Inc. This paper describes the…
2009-11-27
Amazing presentation by Prof. Hans Rosling at TED, Mysore, India using Trendalyzer, which displays statical data in an interesting manner…
2009-11-26
You can merge your GNOME desktop (Ubuntu 9.10) with Google Calendar via iCalendar Format. This a very nifty hack for people who use Google…
2009-11-20
Google just released their latest pet, Google Chrome OS. This is not exactly what you think it is. :) The existing idea of an operating…
2009-11-10
Amazon.com, started in 1994 is one of the greatest example of diversification of an e-commerce player. Started out as an online book store…
2009-11-06
If you a windows power user, a shift to linux will be really good, but it also comes with little packages of frustration sometimes.
2009-11-02
Ubuntu is one of the most common distros of Linux available. With its latest release Ubuntu 9.10, Canonical has added new features…