AppDok is here!
Tomorrow is when AppDok’s might is going to be tested! Wishing good luck to the AppDok‘s launch tomorrow Fingers crossed!
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From being employed to self-employed!
Its a huge huge step in my life – something I’ve always dreamt of ever since my college life – working for myself! What I’ve always seen practically happening is once you burn the bridges, there’s only one way to go – and that is move forward! That said, I still have butterflies in my [...]
How to restart an interrupted dist-upgrade – Ubuntu 10.10 (beta) mess!
sudo dpkg –configure -a I’m still running this… lets see how my new Ubuntu 10.10 Beta install fairs out… Seems like the problem is with how ATI graphic drivers are updated. Please consult http://www.redshirtlinux.com/?p=239 before installing Ubuntu 10.10 Beta
Why I will pick Samsung Galaxy S i9000 over Nexus One or HTC Desire
Ok, so I have to admit it – the first time I saw the Samsung Galaxy S i9000 in flesh and blood – I was quite taken aback by the build quality of the device. When compared to the mighty Nexus One, it almost felt cheap’ish. Back cover of the device is done in plastic!!! [...]
Location of Rubygems in Ubuntu Jaunty
With Jaunty, the location of installed gems has been moved to /var/lib/gems while it was /usr/lib/ruby in releases before. Please follow http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/04/25/Rails-on-Jaunty for more on how to rectify the problem that might arise.
Revisting Ruby – Array.each
I’ve been in love with Ruby for long now – and its only obvious that I should get serious about it. Hence, I’ve decided to go through Programming Ruby 1.9 – a chapter a day. Understanding Array.each and blocks #!/usr/bin/env ruby class MyObject attr_accessor :data def initialize @data = [...]
Speed up firefox, vacuum your firefox sqlite3 db
Firefox is agreeably slower than most other browsers (specially Google Chrome) – even on my Ubuntu. Here is a great tip – after deploying which, I did felt the response time for cold startup and the UrlBar get better. And here are the results… for file in `ls *.sqlite` do ls -lh $file sqlite3 $file [...]
makuchaku.in – finally all settled in!
The blog was scattered pretty much all over the place before this. I was blogging at MakuLabs.com while was trying to keep an identity as Makuchaku.in – even the links I was sharing were just redirecting back. Pretty much a mess – specially when MakuLabs.com is getting expired soon (and I’m in no mood to [...]
Gearing up for a bad day…
Totally managed to forget my spectacles and my watch @ home in the morning… I hope the TT ball makes some sense today