Monthly Archives: August 2008
Feeding the machine
Just few minutes ago, I shared another part of my Life with “The One”! Kevin Kelly discusses how web will be in next 5000 days. A little scary, though!
A simple shell trick
Here is shell a trick that I used lately. Before moving to new system (where I enforce quotas on all home folders), I had portable home directories for all the users on my shared server storage. The old setup did … Continue reading
An eventful week
Last week was pretty eventful. On Sunday, I invited my friend Stephen Goforth and his son John to visit the Memphis gurudwara. John is majoring in Music at the University of South Alabama. He is already composing and writing music, … Continue reading
Git Configurations
I have started using Git over Subversion. Following is the list of my git configurations.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture and the TED talks
I spent some time today watching a couple of videos. The first one was Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture given at Carnegie Mellon University. Randy who died on July 25, 2008 was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and … Continue reading
curl vs wget
Coming from Linux background, while working on OS X shell, I still cannot abandon my old Linux habits. A common one is trying to use wget instead of curl for downloading stuff. Just out just curiosity, I was wondering why … Continue reading
Installing RMagick on OS X Leopard
I work with Ruby on Leopard and and I need RMagick. If you are a programmer and don’t know what RMagick is, you should know how code can melt your picture into art in Ruby:).