Sai Charan

For CentOS/RHEL, additional common packages are available at: EPEL 6 (i386): http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm rpmforge (i386, EL 6): http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm…

To remedy a case of corrupted gpg keys on Linux (if you have the GPGKeys elsewhere): First create a ‘Backup’ [on Windows, via the GPG4Win > GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)].

I have been a VNC user (both RealVNC & TightVNC) for a number of years.

So I needed to use on Dtrace on Linux.

Since this morning, the memory of a computer game that I played as a kid kept surfacing in my head.

For various reasons & non-reasons, I decided to move my domain from Nettigritty to Gandi.net.

Give it five minutes — Absolutely true wisdom from 37signals.com’s Jason.

Connecting to the VPN website to launch Anyconnect installer was not helping – either with Firefox, nor with Chrome.

I have long been a loyal customer of Norton Internet Security product – and I can vouch for its comprehensive, effective protection.

I tend to have this belief that one spends a fair amount of your time reading on the internet.

A reminder to self (this should work for all BSD-like systems, including Fedora & RHEL) — Edit /etc/inittab as root.

After the upgrade today, firing up a tmux session via PuTTy with my usual “Session Settings > Translation > Remote Character Set” pointing to “ISO-8859-6:1999 (Latin/Arabic)”, I found that line drawings were all messed up: the lines were drawn with the ‘a’

Update: With git v1.7.9.5, this hack below is not needed anymore.

Richard Stallman wrote: Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

The Loop linked to a video on Youtube and titled it ‘Steve Jobs narrates The Crazy Ones’.

…have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

In his commencement address at Stanford, Steve Jobs said (Stanford News)- Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Another note to self — This error only means that MikTeX was unable to find and/or install some missing packages.

You wanna know how you do it?

To ease publishing via Jekyll, I needed to push via FTP to my hosting provider.

Finally!

Here are a few more reflections from people I read: John Gruber Dave Winer David Pogue Marco Arment closes with - Steve, if for some crazy reason you’re reading this: You’ve defined a generation and changed the world.

Being an Apple fanboy, I enjoyed this piece.

David Cairns writes: Anyway, I knew the distance pretty well, so when I sensed that I was reaching the other side of the quad, I opened my eyes and looked down and Steve was holding the door for me, grinning to himself.

This is what it took me to migrate from WordPress to Jekyll: Import blog using the wordpressdotcom importer.

Ah!

Update 2025-01-16: The Google Reader Flash audio player is now defunct1 and the embedded content does not load anymore, in case you were wondering :-).

On Github: https://github.com/scharan/saveuri

As a heavy user of screen and now of tmux, I find it annoying that each time I disconnect the terminal and reconnect and then reattach to screen/tmux, I find that inside the screen/tmux sessions, SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable is stale: it does not point anymore…

Setting up gitweb on a machine with no root access: First, set up lighttpd: Download from http://www.lighttpd.net/download $ mkdir -p ~/usr $ tar -xvf lighttpd-*; cd !

This eases checking international minutes used with a Vonage World plan http://saicharan.in/work/vonage.py.

I love readability (readability.com) for the clutter free reading experience.

Traditional events require fairly strict observances throughout the year.

After I upgraded to Adobe Reader X, Texnic center started throwing up an error:"[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")] Cannot execute the command."

Found a weird behavior with gContactSync 0.3.2 Thunderbird plugin- on both Windows and Linux (Fedora 14), the sync stops after 111 contacts.

Learnt/inferred a few things here (correct me via comments if I am wrong conceptually; note that these have worked for me) - Win key is called/referred to as the 'super key' You may have to get xmodmap to explicitly recognize the key.

Made some time to update the firefox extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saveuri/.

Among the most elegant implementations is the string copy function (assuming you have allocated enough memory in the dest buffer): //Assuming for elegance you don't have to return the number of bytes copied. void strcpy(char* src, char* dest){ while(*des…

I came up with this implementation of substring method.

The following code tests if the input binary tree is, in fact, a Binary Search Tree.

I was working on a remote FreeBSD system and issued a sudo command.

NOTE: I have avoided character classes to aid understanding for newbies.

Found this interesting recursion problem on StackOverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1705374/how-to-capture-a-string-into-variable-in-a-recursive-function int resultSize(vector<vector<string>> vector ) { int x=1; for(int i=0; i<vector.size(); i…

Yay!

I have always wondered why I like programming languages like Lisp etc.

This is a list for my reference.

This is a response to David Pogues’ tweet question: http://twitter.com/Pogue/status/3332520918 The ‘rendering’ or ‘drawing-model’ of a browser is based on HTML.

In my quest for speeding up automated, no-questions asked deletion of the corrupt dev SDKs (which go upto 25 GB), I discovered this: > rmdir /S /Q .

I have been attempting to add “share” functionality to my website.

This morning GMail surprised me yet again.