Moved to a new webhost

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Here I am. With Arvixe. After 8 years with DreamHost, I made the move to save money. Shit loads of money. Hosting with DreamHost was a smooth and wonderful but expensive journey. Their support and technical expertise are unmatched, things that came in pretty handy while hosting a Linux distro (Granular, remember?). In its heydays, […]

What am I thinking?

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Now that I am free from all the MBA entrance tests I was preparing for, I am thinking a lot. Thinking of watching more movies per week, playing more games & reading more novels per day, and wasting more time per hour. Apart from that, I am working on a plan (read strategy) to get […]

Updates

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It’s been a week now since my Accenture training got over. Now, my real office work has started. Missing my friends (back in Bangalore) that I made during my Accenture training there. Waiting desperately to get my hands on an Internet connection at home. I’ll go with either of Airtel broadband or BSNL EVDO. My […]

Apologies accepted

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Tom (aka Kurakroma and cbar2 on Granular Community Forum) was a very active member of the forum and one of the global mods there too. He used to be the live wire of the forum, and had a very keen mind which he utilized in discovering new things and putting forward questions, and sometimes trying […]

Granular Package Archive

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Continuing my Java learning stint, I started experimenting on RPM packages in the Granular 2008 repository by extracting meta data from them using various Java classes I had written for my on-going college major project. To give a shape (end-user interface) to these leisurely done Java programs, I used my existing project MyBlog to create […]

Flash Player gone wild

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Today, I was watching a cool video on YouTube. The video was Matrix Ping Pong. When the video was over, I casually right-clicked on the video and chose “Settings” (Adobe Flash Player settings). What happened next is in the following video. 😉 And yes, this happened in case of Flash Player for Linux.

Recent Happenings – II

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Posting after about a month. So, what happened in the past one month with me? Read on…. In my Python learning quest, I have reached the most interesting and core part – OOP (Object Oriented Programming). Before that, I had been reading the functional programming part, which is also interesting in itself, but of course […]

Recent happenings

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Although I haven’t yet gotten out of the agony that I got on loosing my previous blog, I am finding this new place quite comfortable. Today, I was feeling like blogging here, after so much time. So, here are some events related to me take took place not too long ago: Granular 1.0 Preview was […]