Sathyajith Bhat on AWS & DevOps

I’ve always loved the Grand Theft Auto series, but more so as a sandbox/stress-buster than as a story line game.

Undertale is a game that’s been getting rave reviews from quite a few people - critics or otherwise.

I got a bug assigned to me where my application was returning an incorrect value.

I wanted a way to download my Spotify songs for offline listening.

So this happened just now with a colleague.

With the next Barcamp Bangalore looming round the corner, I’d pitched in to help with some of the website tasks.

Mini review/recommendation I’d written about Game Dev Tycoon on Steam: You start off as a single game dev operating out of your garage, and then slowly expand as you move to bigger office, hire more people and just grow.

Long ago when Backupify said they were going to offer their service for free, I knew it was too good to be true and weren’t going to last long.

What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?

This morning in my half-woken state, as I was checking Hacker News, I spotted this piece about Alienware launching the X51 with Ubuntu.

Couple of months ago, just about a month before #cpgweds - the engagement my Envy 14 laptop started showing signs of dying - weird noises coming from the vents, system freezing arbitrarily, system getting incredibly hot - and that’s really unusual because…

I probably top the ranks of lazy arses who procrastinate like there’s no tomorrow - and then there’s Fabrice Bellard Amongst others, he’s created/led A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC.

So after much thought, I upgraded my Windows 7 Ultimate install to Windows 8.

I noticed this few days ago on the dev build: case ya'll haven't noticed, the Chrome's wrench icon is no longer there :( i.imgur.com/rkbMh.png — Sathya (@SathyaBhat) August 8, 2012 It’s been replaced with what I can only call..

I spent the past hour and a half trying to fix this stupid error.

I’m a huge fan of Chrome & pretty much loved whatever changes Chrome team have done to the browser since it’s inception.

Was writing this for Stack Overflow‘s tag wiki on ORA-01017, thought I’ll post it here as well.

Came across this article via HN and I’m pretty sure most who work for Enterprise companies would’ve come across this at least once.

I love Unity, especially the lens feature.

Q: What does Linux need to be if its going to be a real contender to Windows?

I have no idea why, but for some reason the Gmail app on Android doesn’t allow you to save files.

Is there any way to remove all of the files in a directory except for one with a certain filename?

ln -s d1 d2 # Am I the only person who gets this the wrong way round every fucking time?

I’ve used find extensively and always wanted to writeup a nice post on this, but the linked post trumps my effort!

I did something crazy at some point that created a file called “-rf” on my filesystem.

Quick tip - if you use the Terminal as much as I do, ever been in a situation where you’ve written a particularly long command, and then want to issue that command again but can’t recall it ?

Starcraft 2 [runs] under my Linux install with no issues.

This is a pretty good tip.

Here are our key findings: GNOME has a rhythm – there is a measurable increase in activity before release time, and after the annual GNOME conference GUADEC While over 70% of GNOME developers identify themselves as volunteers, over 70% of the commits to t…

It seems Oracle is hellbent on destroying whatever good Sun had done to the Open Source Ecosystem.

If you check the latest versions of IronRuby, IronPython or the Dynamic Language Runtime you will see that Microsoft has now relicensed the code from the Microsoft Permissive License to the Apache 2 License via Microsoft Licensing Changes for IronRuby and…

Recently, I bought a pair of those new Western Digital Caviar Green drives.

A lot of our developers are using Linux, obviously they want to listen to music while they’re coding away and looking at the feedback we get it appears that they’re not the only ones.

A whole linux distro, Slackware based I believe, to train you in the dark arts.

digiKam supports watermarking, this feature is hidden so well that you might not even realize that it’s there.

Mixxx is described as a complete package for amateur and professional DJs alike, providing everything you need to create and perform live mixes.

1: The pager I am always shocked at how few people actually use the Linux pager.

openSUSE India IRC Channel LIVE !

A quickie: I wanted to change the default application from Banshee/Totem for my media files to VLC ( since I didn’t have proprietary codecs installed, and VLC does).

I love MusicBrainz Picard.

I’ve owned a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 for nearly 2 years now ), and my current iPhone 3G.

Seems like lot of openSUSE Gnome users don’t like the new Gnome panel, which is radically different interface from the traditional Menu bar with Applications/Places/System entries.

I wasn’t aware of this tiny little thing - the filesystem in the file created by a Wubi install can be easily mounted as a loop device.

As mentioned openSUSE 11.2 is now available.

Howdy folks!

I’ve been using Dropbox pretty extensively ever since its private beta days and just love its simplicity and ease with which I can keep all my files in sync across multiple computers.

Ever wondered if there’s a quick and easy way to write an iso file to a CD-R/DVD-R ?

Not many know of this, but as of KDE 4.2, Kwin, the window manager has a nifty little feature - it can grab videos of desktop much like a screencasting tool such as Camtasia.

Well I was browsing through some Kannada sites the other day and all I got was big blocks.

Here’s a short tip: If Amarok 2.0 doesn’t add any songs to your playlist or collection, or the collection scan is getting hung at up 47% or 79% try installing mysql.