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Entries from August 2008

Feeding the machine

August 22nd, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Thoughts

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!

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How schools can kill creativity

August 21st, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Thoughts

I found this TED talk a narration of my own life story.

When i was 7 years old, because of militancy in Punjab, my father sent me and my three siblings to a boarding school in Himachal. In was fascinated by music education, and used to hang around the music facility where elder kids were taught [...]

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A simple shell trick

August 20th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Programming

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 not strictly apply the quota limits on all users. Some of the users had large home [...]

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An eventful week

August 16th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · 1 Comment · Random

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, although he still is a freshman at the University. Check his song Tunnel no light [...]

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Git Configurations

August 5th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Programming

I have started using Git over Subversion. Following is the list of my git configurations.

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Randy Pausch Last Lecture and the TED talks

August 3rd, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Random

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 design at Carnegie Mellon University and creator of Alice.

It was a heart-touching and inspiring talk. I [...]

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curl vs wget

August 2nd, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Programming

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 OS X supports curl, but no wget in the OS.

I came across this interesting page doing [...]

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Installing RMagick on OS X Leopard

August 1st, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · 2 Comments · Programming

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:).

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