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Quick Bazaar on Windows over SSH

Quick notes on how to set up a version control system using Bazaar with just SFTP and Windows client. Get a Unix/Linux machine that you've an account and that supports SSH. Create a directory, say...

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Labelling in Outlook 2003 ala Gmail

I found that moving mails into project folders, when the mails are still on an open topic takes too much time. Gmail's "label" idiom really helps in this situation. Turns out we can do that with...

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Cisco's new urbanism

Fast Company's article about Cisco's vision for New Songdo is a fascinating read on smart cities. Perhaps all connected, with all the apartments being able to do lot with network via great functional...

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Simple MongoDB+Java example

MongoDB is pretty slick for ease of use and scalability. As part of figuring out how to interface with MongoDB, I wrote a simple Java class that gives you an idea about how to create a collection and...

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Bicycle Diaries - I

Once I entered work life, physical activity was pretty much restricted to keyboard and mousing. I hate running. I like only Cricket, Badminton and Table Tennis for sports. All need others to be...

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Quick script to maintain a diary

I like to keep my daily notes in a folder in the filesystem with filenames yyyymmdd.otl, using VIM Outliner. Here is a small DOS script to make a file for a day if it doesn't exist and then open it....

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Quick Start: Git for personal use

Problem: Needed to find a way to keep my config and research files under version control which I can get to various machines I work with and update from anywhere. I have an OpenBSD server account (no...

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Git with Dropbox

First, check out Git for personal use. Extending those principles to Dropbox is fairly easy. cd ~/Dropbox mkdir -p gitroot/research.git && cd !$ git --bare init cd ~/Projects git init git...

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Quick Ref: SVN command line

#make a working dir mkdir sandbox cd sandbox #checkout svn co svn://svn-repo-machine/repo/path myproject --username myusernameatsvnserver #go to work on items cd myproject #pull latest from server svn...

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Quick Ref: Linux Mint 11 #1

To force a filesystem check on root filesystem on next reboot, do: sudo touch /forcefsck To restore the gnome panel to defaults: gconftool-2 --shutdown rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel pkill gnome-panel If...

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Remove duplicate jars

Often you will find that you've multiple versions of the same dependency jars in your WEB-INF/lib or your classpath directories when you are merging multiple modules. This small shell script can be...

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Bash infinite loop script

There are times when cron won't do for automated jobs. Classic example is when you need to start a script, enter some data and then get it into cron. Now, in most cases this can be handled by having...

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Bangalore Coonoor on Royal Enfield

Route is indicated by green icons on the map. Return was on next day, indicated by red icons. Each marker was done when I had stopped for at least a 5 minute break. Click/hover on the marker to get...

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How to beat workday blues?

Let us face it - all of us feel like having achieved or done very little after spending a long day away from family. Then you look back and find that you could've spent some of that time with family...

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Setting up Xubuntu in Lenovo Flex2 14D

Lenovo Flex2 14D is a good laptop with decent build quality, light weight, 14" screen and touch screen for those who like it. With AMD A6 processor version, it is reasonably priced too. It comes...

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