Reconfigure

Rolls Royce sighting

July 5, 2009 - 12:01 am

Found stuck in the company of the lesser mortals at Koramangala.

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Span

June 28, 2009 - 10:47 pm

Use of twitter, difficulty in settling down and reading a book almost no hacking at home - I can probably be officially marked as ‘low attention span’ ‘bad’ configuration. Wonder why its difficult to get started on something which wont produce short term results. I remember making ‘the’ counter strike map which took me around 2 days to finish. Now, I wouldn’t even think of starting it. Photography is almost entirely non-existent. No gaming - procrastinating rig upgrade. Want to get a decent keyboard (ergo, split/angled) - again, too lazy to get out and get it. Two car incidents within a span of 1.5 months.. not bad - having difficulty getting it out of my head. Generally unsatisfactory.

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Throw catch :-)

April 20, 2009 - 4:19 pm

THROWFIFO=/tmp/throwcatch
test -p $THROWFIFO || mkfifo $THROWFIFO

function throw()
{
echo $* > $THROWFIFO
}

function catch()
{
cat $THROWFIFO
}

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RVP Plugin

March 19, 2009 - 1:18 pm

Recently the debian pidgin-rvp stopped working with our M$ exchange system (with error “server returned empty response to SUBSCRIBE request” ). This little patch got my pidgin-rvp plugin to work at work.

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Diesel..

March 16, 2009 - 7:48 pm

Your first car and its a diesel ? — The service guy.

Diesel is for trucks — Bhatta.

Its noisy and smells — Srini.

Innumerable comments from Prithvi (colleague and racing angel). The real thing thats getting on to me is the smoke. I saw a vortex of particulate matter twice in the evening as I accelerated. Had it been sand its nice - unfortunately the last time I saw it was on clean tarmac (plus it had rained only the day before). Holy smokes.

Its part of being diesel but is the ride old already ? Why did it appear - Could have been turbo lag, something is wrong ?  Probably excessive idling (carbon buildup) ?

Thats enough fodder for anxiety.

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