Testing scribefire blog posting tool

Scribefire blog posting tool test.

Google scares me more ! SPOOKY STUFF

A if i wasn't enough afraid of google, the evil search giant decides to pull this stunt on me.

I was discussing gold prices and stuff with my wife the other morning. Being curious about the price statistics over the last few years, i decided to "google" them on the net.

Booted up my wife's windoze firefox and was about to type "gold price chart" in the firefox google box ( the one on uppoer right corner).
But some how my first word 'gold' did not get typed (apperantly windoze loaded some other stuff which ate that word)

and guess what for my search of "price chart" this is what google throws at me as first result.

"Live gold prices, silver price charts & gold news."

i am feeling SPOOOOOKY !

Installing phonetic devnagari key layout ubuntu

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=646207

I searched the google to do the same and took me a little while to find this link out. So i am posting it here to increase its rank in google.

I can confirm that this works well with ubu

Testing the kblogger

This is a test from kblogger kicker applet

Testing google docs

TEST:

Google docs can publish directly to blogger.com ...
Cooll!!!

Looking at a world with a new perspective

Well actually its just that i got meself a shiny new pair of glasses (well fibre optics actually). Underlying interpretation machinery is the same, and is confused the same.

Back to the future .....

No no no ... this ain't my mackbook native aqua. Its just gnome with a gtk hack to display the menus on top and avant-window-navigator :D..... with some fine tuning. Here is the aritcle that lists down the steps. Fiesty debs are available.

Drop in the ocean

Ever wondered how a drop in the ocean feels like?
I guess i don't have to anymore, cause i _am_ one.

Recently Greg Kroah-Hartman displayed a graph of linux-2.6.22 kernel developers at linux syposium.
And due to my stupid three liner patch, i am part of it......

The original files are here.












Greg is going to take signatures of as many devleopers as he can and then auction it at annual linux event linux.conf.au

Weak Aithism

As a week aithist, i do not know weather god exists or not. But for god's own sake, i hope it doesn't, as it would be quite a stupid and ugly entity.

Reducing spam an already done deal?

I feel stupid when i see the amount of spam we see on the email channels.



More because its an already solved problem to a large extent. The thing called instant messenger. And an option called block unknown users. Duh!!!!!



NO sender id no blacklists no dynamic algos. just plain old do i know you handshake. Hell even better prior art exists. Caller id on land telephones. Designed to reduce spam on phone, many people scan their messages and caller ids before picking up the phone. Hell i do it to avoid certain people, (i label them known spam).



Why can't people have the same thing implemented in email????

i can't say DDUUUHHHHHH!!! louder.





PS: Not that im doesn't have spam, but the amount is so miniscual compared to amount of users.

www.devslashzero.com

I purchased this domain to test out google application suit. Its sounds real good deal for small businesses and individuals.

If google manages to iron out some rough corners. Its page creator sucks for one thing and the docs.google.com is a little limited. Also more customizing on interface side would have been welcome.



On the other hand the things could not have been simpler (only if you register the domain name with google, it pretty ugly otherwise.)

I had a website for my mother in law's beauty parlor up and running in minutes with addwords purchased and displaying her adds on the google in next 20 mins.



Real cool stuff.....



I say it again and again, Google SCARES ME!!!!!



BTW i plan to make it my permanent home in next few days, with my email switched to bain-nospam-removethis-(aT)devslashzero.com

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Tiring gui's

Few months back i wrote about OSX on my macbook.

I also mentioned to see if i will stick with its interface and for how long. Well we have an answer to that now. Not too long. I am now fulltime linux (feisty to be precise) user on macbook now. With even suspend working with a slightly sloppy hack, i have no reason left to go back to OSX.



I am waiting for some time before i will completely erase the OSX partition as its taking up whopping 30 GBs of my harddrive.

http://kgit.sf.net

One more of my weekend hacks.... but atleast this time its margnially usefull already to people at my workplace.

Copy cat

I found one more person who liked my lines at my site so much that he just copied them on to his own...

although this time its just the idea that was copied and not the whole verbatim site as previously had happened.

Its kinda not bad to find people copying you :D

File named "-i"

While reading slashdot i came accross a thread that discussed friendly fire of "rm".
I know every one of you unix geek has suffered from it atleast once. A mistakingly given rm command.

But the thread had a brilliant idea, put a file naded "-i" in the directory.

so if you type by mistake "rm -rf /* .tmp" the / directory will expand having -i in the command line and rm will ask confirmation before proceeding :D

Althoguh i haven't tried it yet, will see... it will be dumb try if shell just adds an escape sequence in it's expanded strings.

w810i + macosx

Finally i found a reason to buy meself a new phone.
Google just mapped my city (click to view) and added it to GoogleMaps. And now i can get location info on my mobile with sattelite pictures to verify my location.This gives a big advantage when roaming around trying to find an address in this crazily difficult road maze in pune.
So here i go and buy a shiny carbon black W810i.
Spent some time to get it to work with macosx. Bummer, it needed an update to 10.4.7, but then synchronization works perfect after that. Now i will try dialing to gprs which seems to require installing and hacking some scripts.

Next month it will be Linux's turn.

Pleasent surprise at KL Intl. Airport

My first impression of the air port was quite ordinary, not a huge airport and for some reason absolutely no electronics shops. All are either gold/perfume or liquior/cafe's. But this time i had little more time on my hands than before, and opened up my laptop. Due to being used to finding all the paid access points on other airports i usually never try to associate with them, but this time i found klia network and out of curiocity and posibility of finding airport info i accessed it and to my surprise i have this wifi internet :o

Even better

I know even better theory that is orthogonal to existence. And that
is to let a enemy go....

blah

I type this on my new shiny Macbook ( i can't stop showing it off
where ever i can...... :p) as i am half way drunk... and watching
'Saving private ryan' for the nth time, but there is something unique
i realise today. In the end its not the bank balance that matters;
but the instinct of survival without being a cheater. (in theory of
evolution they call it altruists..... or something may be my friend
ashwin can clarify). The movie really establishes the orthogonal to
existence stuff i talked about a while ago..... i amm just toooo
drunk to put it in comprehensible words, but i finally found a theory
that satisfies my search criteria; its the theory of reason of war. I
can say no more .. only war is rediculous enough to justify dying
(lack of existance by somebody who is completely unrelated to the
cause) for a cause or something like that. Again if you don't get it
just let it go i don't think i will get it either.

Macbook Screenshot

No no no ..... its not some dressed up Qt/KDE or Gtk/Gnome its native Aqua on Intel Macbook i just aquired :p