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Randy Pausch's Last Lecture - Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

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Men - The Last Frontier

Men Are Just Happier People--

What do you expect from such simple creatures?

Your last name stays put. Thegarage is all yours.

Wedding plans take care of themselves.

Chocolate is just another snack.

You can be President. You can never be pregnant.

You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.

You can wear NO shirt to a water park.

Car mechanics tell you the truth.

The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.

You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.

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Blog Action Day

Today is the Blog Action Day !!! The Day when Bloggers all over the world do their bit to contribute to the environment.

Bloggers Unite - Blog Action Day

Our environment is facing many problems because of the imbalance we are creating in it. These are some things which I have began to practice in the recent times.

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The Longest Wait

Wonder what I am waiting for? Release of Mepis 7.0 and Nokia 1650. I've been waiting for more than 2 months and just have no clue when these two are expected to release :(. Both were supposed to release by end of September. May the Lord be merciful and release these two soon :D.

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Very Witty

A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet Dachshund dog along for company.

One day, the dachshund starts chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund thinks, "I'm in deep trouble now! Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat.

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Increase Laptop Battery Life

Hi,
Below are a few links which has some useful tips on increasing laptop battery life.

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Hey You There ... I'm still ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh yeah, I'm still alive and my site is still very much active. It is just that I am standing up to the title given to me "The busiest man on this earth" :D :D. As always, the past few months have been extremely hectic. In no particular order, here are a few things which I did during the past few months:

- Prepared my company's financial records.
- Visited my friend's wedding in Namakal (near Salem), Tamilnadu. She was my colleague during Bangalore training. The wedding went good except for that I almost missed the train on my return journey. But I somehow managed to catch it in time.

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Free Long Distance Calling Using SIP (with Linksys PAP2 or any softphone)

Short and simple steps for the technically challenged

For this setup, you will have to first buy a phone adapter. A very good and cheap SIP phone adapter is the Linksys PAP2. This will cost around Rs.2500 in CTC, Secunderabad. If you want to use single phone for internet calling and normal telephone line, then you can consider buying Linksys SPA3102. (Note: Newer versions of these ATAs modelled SPA112 and SPA122 have been launched). After you buy the phone adapter, follow the below instructions to configure cheap calling to international destinations:

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Apache2 + Tomcat5 + mod_jk

This is a straight forward step-by-step tutorial to set up Apache2 to server java content (jsp and servlets) through tomcat web server using mod_jk.

  1. Install apache2 along with dependencies.
    # apt-get install apache2

  2. Install tomcat5 along with dependencies.
    # apt-get install tomcat5

    Modify /etc/default/tomcat5 to set the correct path to JAVA_HOME directory (jdk needs to be installed and setup prior to installing tomcat). Then restart tomcat.
    # /etc/init.d/tomcat5 restart

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