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Tux Playground: October 2008
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Monday, October 13, 2008. Finally, a solution to file sharing woes. File sharing was never easy, especially for big files. I don't trust GMail, even when it says it allows attachment size of 20M. I often had my GMail frozen attaching just a 7M file, after some 20 minutes (which is way too much for just a 7M file! Go ahead. Tour. Dropbox. See the screencast. It Link your computer and start sharing. And be thankful to me forever! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). New Delhi, Delhi, India.
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Tux Playground: March 2008
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Thursday, March 20, 2008. There are more than one ways to set Keyboard Shortcuts in GNOME. In my Ubuntu 7.04, you can either go to System - Keyboard Shortucts and change/add keybndings there. This way, you can change keybindings for most common operations like "Launch Web Browser" etc. If the procedure outlined above doesn't work for you for some reason, launch. From a terminal. Make sure that desktop/gnome/interface/can change accels is true. Happy shortcuts! Links to this post. New Delhi, Delhi, India.
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Tux Playground: Shortcuts in GNOME
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Thursday, March 20, 2008. There are more than one ways to set Keyboard Shortcuts in GNOME. In my Ubuntu 7.04, you can either go to System - Keyboard Shortucts and change/add keybndings there. This way, you can change keybindings for most common operations like "Launch Web Browser" etc. If the procedure outlined above doesn't work for you for some reason, launch. From a terminal. Make sure that desktop/gnome/interface/can change accels is true. Happy shortcuts! That was really a nice tip. DNA of (the) Tux.
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Tux Playground: August 2007
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007. This week wasn't really productive. No preparations for sessionals yet. Stayed up last night so missed the college today. And some idiot classmates must be thinking now that I was preparing hard for sessionals. Poor kids, ;-). Actually, I tried my hands with Linux Kernel Development. And its such an amazing thing! For starting out, I downloaded the source of latest kernel as linux-2.6.22.5.tar.bz2. There are some interesting things when writing kernel code. First, you can ...
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Tux Playground: September 2007
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Sunday, September 23, 2007. Get rid of RAID! RID That is RAID without the A. I'll show you how you can experiment with RAID without having multiple drives, which are, not-so-inexpensive actually. If you don't know what is RAID, a half-an-hour glance through this TLDP guide. So, to get started using RAID, you need multiple drives. Wait! Is that really true? Do you know about loop devices? That is, devices within devices. Can I fool the RAID by asking it to make an array from loop devices? Take a deep brea...
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Tux Playground: The day Merb joined Rails
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Thursday, December 25, 2008. The day Merb joined Rails. It's a historic day in history of Rails. Eyepoppingly shocking, Merb 2 has a new name - Rails 3. Yes! Merb is being merged. 96% people are positive about the merger. If you belong to 4%, David has an answer. How Merb is undergoing a rebirth. This merger. Would hopefully break the myth. That Rails is a monolith. Interesting to see community putting an end to drama. Labels: rails merb merge. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The day Merb joined Rails.
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Tux Playground: Git your branch name into your shell
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Thursday, December 18, 2008. Git your branch name into your shell. I use git on my Ubuntu for my Rails projects, and very frequently I need to know what branch I'm working on right now. If I can just get my shell to display the current local branch all the time in the prompt, it'd be a lot easier. I just found I could do so. You need to modify the environment variable PS1 to show your current local git branch. For me, it looks like this now. And it renders out like. January 18, 2009 at 9:59 PM.
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Tux Playground: December 2008
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Thursday, December 25, 2008. The day Merb joined Rails. It's a historic day in history of Rails. Eyepoppingly shocking, Merb 2 has a new name - Rails 3. Yes! Merb is being merged. 96% people are positive about the merger. If you belong to 4%, David has an answer. How Merb is undergoing a rebirth. This merger. Would hopefully break the myth. That Rails is a monolith. Interesting to see community putting an end to drama. Links to this post. Labels: rails merb merge. Friday, December 19, 2008. Yes, that's a...
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Tux Playground: Recovering a (Lost) ReiserFS Partition
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Saturday, February 23, 2008. Recovering a (Lost) ReiserFS Partition. The partition table on my sister's laptop always seemed fishy to me. It just didn't have the right feel about it. The cylinder numbers and sizes and all, but I never cared. As the laptop went through a series of installations, Ubuntu or Windows, the abnormality showed up. But, I thought its just another routine partition table corruption, and I had a tool in my swiss-army knife - testdisk ( http:/ www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk. One g...
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Tux Playground: January 2008
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Sunday, January 6, 2008. These holidays, I was busy developing spendwrite.com. The idea behind spendwrite is a community driven website where users share their experiences about the various places they visit in their town, like restaurants, coffee shops, dentists or shopping malls etc. Everyone reviews the outlets and rates them, so one can easily find the best of places around them. To begin with, I had vague ideas only. I created four directories, like Rails does, called 'models', 'views', 'control...