Monthly Archives: May 2011

05.25.11
by

అదృష్టం అడ్డం తిరిగితే అరటిపండు తిన్నా పన్ను విరుగుతుంది

‘వేదం’ సినిమా (via thecakeisaliein)

05.20.11
by

This is the first idea I have got the revenue model figured out, but not clear on what to put on the site for the domain www.begwithme.com . Its plain simple social begging 🙂 . A group of beggers forming a group online, not to be confused with buywithme.com (social buying / groupon style)

05.20.11
by

Changing the TZ info in any Linux Distro

If you wish to use Indian timezone on your EC2 or any linux host which is showing the date output in a different timezone , use 

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime

If you want to temporarily use a TimeZone, use the following and all the commands that use the TZ variable like date show the information in that timezone

export TZ=Asia/Calcutta

Cyberciti.biz

05.18.11
by

Location of a url being served from

I always wondered which servers do Indian websites like Flipkart use for static content . Websites like whoishostingthis.com make it super easy to figure out where the server is hosted instead of parsing out the data from the whois records. 

Check out http://www.whoishostingthis.com/img4.fkcdn.com for one of their image servers. Considering most of the visitors are from India, I assumed, they’d use a CDN from India than servers from Virginia.

05.12.11
by

Redirect your queries from old website to the newone

If you decided to move from tumblr blog / pages from your top level domain to a subdomain like blog.example.in .

Add the entry in your .htaccess to allow Apache send all requests from /post to the new subdomain which Tumblr is right now hosting (blog.example.in). 

Redirect 301 /post http://blog.example.in/post

301 Redirect is a permanent move. Ideally, the same client would not query the same post again at the same url.

05.09.11
by

clientsfromhell:

So, I met with a used car dealership for a potential website project. The owner fulfilled every stereotype of a used car salesman, from the velour jumpsuit to the gold chains. The meeting is best summed up by this amazing question, (please read in thick NY accent): “So… like uh… When you build dis website…. You gotta do it in my garage or what?!”

05.09.11
by

BeamTelecom ups its speed from 4Mbps to 15Mbps

You wont believe this, but, I got a text from BeamTele.com (was beamcable , only available in Hyderabad) that the connection speed has been upgraded to 15Mbps . I am not aware if this is temporary or permanent. I ran over to speedtest.net to verify the authenticity of the text. The Speedtest site uses Flash to pull up the numbers and here are the results.

The sad thing is there no word about the FUP (Fair Usage Policy) which I think is not some thing present outside of India for broadband connections. 

This is to say, that BeamTele.com is doing very good at this in Hyderabad. By the way, BeamTele.com also provides a free antivirus for windows. 

You know that the disk space is limited even though there is such a good internet connection. Guess I have to stick with live streaming 🙂

05.07.11
by

TODO lists

Background on TextMate : TextMate is one of the best text editors for Mac OS. SeeWikipedia for timeline. The only downside some users see is it costs for the license ~ $58 or INR 2600 . People tell me its worth the money. TextMate 2 (which is supposed to be cooler than TexMate 1 ) is in development since couple of years and due to be released later this year . 

How often are TODO lists used : The first thing I’d need when planning for a project or a small task is the planning state where the list down the requirements with a priority and get it done.

Remember the Milk (RTM) is my favorite todo list trackers (along side tadalist.com by 37signals ) which help you track ACTIONS that are recurring etc and keep note of things and remind you on the day prior to the event.

There are not many tools available on the net that are decent in terms of presentation, convenience and sharing. Some people do not prefer their data to be present on the Cloud vs private hosting. In most cases, private hosting requires maintenance while the other one requires a recurring premium account. Its just preference of money vs time. There are hundreds ( may be even thousands) of TODO tracking applications and every one seek out the best one for them.

TextMate and TODO: TextMate comes with built in TODO bundle with a decent way to track TODOs in the project files 

You can track how many more TODOs you have in your project. This is good if you have your code at a certain level. But, how do you start at ‘Level 0’ when there is no foundation ? 

Tasks.tmbundle for TextMate : Henrik Nyh wrote a bundle for TexMate – Tasks.tmbundle which illustrates a very simple TODO tracker within a text editor. Tasks.tmbundle is one simple application inside the text editor which helps you keep track of stuff though. Simplifies things for me for updating my resume every year and the TODO I have been tracking for months. 

P.S. : There are some people who switched their OS because they fell in love with one single application. One of them is the author of tasks.tmbundle – Henrik

05.06.11
by

Kindle is the best selling product at Amazon. Alexa would not be lying on the trends

05.06.11
by

macminin:

iPad 2 pricing in India

05.06.11
by

Debugging #fail

I got an email from Delicious to agree to their new T&C because of the change in ownership. After completing the formalities, I get a confirmation email with the originating IP of generation of address as 127.0.0.1 , lol ! That’s localhost 😛

05.05.11
by

Apple notebooks use their battery until the very end !