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Guy Kawasaki Hindsights Speech
An interesting speech by Guy Kawasaki which he has given at many high schools / colleges. The key points he stresses are on (copied verbatim from his blog entry): #10: Live off your parents as long as possible. #9 Pursue joy, not happiness. #8: Challenge the known and embrace the unknown. #7: Learn to speak…
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It’s a girl!
I am pleased to announce that we have been blessed with a baby girl on Sep 26, 2014 5:57 P.M weighing 2.76 kg. I had strongly desired for a girl and this is like a dream come true. We decided to name her “Tanvi”. Words can’t describe my joy :).
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A decade since I started my career!
Today marks the tenth anniversary of starting my career. Exactly ten years back, on June 14 2004, I, along with few of my schoolmates joined Infosys Bangalore for undergoing training. Ten years later, I am again working in Bangalore! It has been a long time since my initial days in Bangalore. A very eventful journey…
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Lesser Know Useful SSH Features
I had given a small presentation in my organization on five of the lesser known useful SSH features. I am uploading the presentation here. Her is an interesting link I came across talking about the same topic – http://blog.tjll.net/ssh-kung-fu/
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Configuring Thunderbird As KNotes Mail Action
The steps are really simple. Save the below script to /usr/local/bin/knotes-mail-wrapper.sh #!/bin/bash set -eu # See /usr/share/doc/util-linux/examples/getopt-parse.bash for getopt example TEMP=$(getopt –name “$0” –options s:,b: –longoptions “subject:,body:” — “$@”) # Bad arguments, something has gone wrong with the getopt command. if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo “Termintaing …” >&2 exit 1 fi #…
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Setting up SSH and OpenVPN on Netgear WNDR4300
Introduction Unknown to many, the official Netgear WNDR4300 firmware is based on OpenWrt. The procedure described here involves making use of the OpenWrt repos to have openvpn up and running. It also involves recompiling the official firmware. So, this is certainly not for the faint hearted and expects you to have a good knowledge of…
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Filing Complaint In Consumer Court India
A while back, I had filed a case in the consumer court of India against HP for giving me a faulty HP printer, which was consuming high amount of ink. I thought it might be beneficial to share the details pertaining to the case so that others could benefit from it. Should I file a…
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Linux Backup Solutions
In an earlier post, I spoke about the need for backup. However, I hardly spoke about the available backup solutions in Linux and just mentioned about a software that I no longer use. In this article, I will primarily focus on some of the popular linux backup solutions. Factors to consider There are many questions…
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Setting up hourly backups in Deja Dup
Déjà Dup is an excellent graphical backup solution for the GNOME Desktop environment. However, it is limited by that it does not provide backup frequency higher than a day through its graphical interface. So, we will leverage cron to achieve this for us. Adding a simple cron job with the command “xvfb-run deja-dup –backup –auto”…
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The Theeka Pan Experience
Another Sunday evening. With my wife not at home, I feel bored and decide to go to office and finish some pending work. After work, I go to a restaurant and have two delicious parathas. As I begin to walk home, I pass a paan shop where I had a meetha (sweet) paan the other…