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Health in a free fall!
Searing pain at the sides of the nose where the eyebrows and the nose meet, inability to sit in front of the computer for reasonable periods without headaches, sugar level that is everywhere except under control and more things have clearly ensured that my health is really really poor and is going down. Being a…
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Hassle-free installation of Sun JDK on Debian
Normally we download Sun JDK installation binaries and install them. Then we configure the PATH environment variable to point to our JDK installation. But some times there will be conflicts between the native gcj and Sun JDK. So it is always better to install Sun JDK through debian repositories. But unfortunately, the Debian repositories have…
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Unplugged & unconnected and also Uncomfortable!
I have got so used to life with Internet at college that when at home without hi-speed internet connectivity, I feel so uncomfortable. I can’t check emails very frequently, I can’t download stuff, I can’t google and find out answers, I can’t do this and I can’t do that etc.. Life away from the Internet…
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Results are out and I am in a free-fall!
This year has been so tortuous for me with regards to academics and the trend clearly reflected in my results of the 6th semester exams. I scored 8.39 GPA, my lowest ever! This semester subjects involved a lot of memorising and writing loads and loads of pages. Unfortunately for me, I am miserably poor at…
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Black mark! – This one’s of a different kind
On 13 May 2009, I participated in the democratic process of the world’s largest democracy. The election process has become so cliched and ripped apart by the insatiable politicians that electors feel in fool’s paradise only till they cast their vote. This time I cast my vote and felt somewhat emotionless and empty. Come whatever…
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Installing OpenSolaris on machines with just about enough RAM
I wanted to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 in a machine that had 512 MB RAM which is just about enough to install and use OpenSolaris. But to my misfortune, GNOME Desktop environment took too long to load from the LiveCD and the system hung up every time I tried starting the installation. I was irritated and…
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FOSSConf 2009 @ TCE (27 Feb – 1 Mar, 2009)
“FOSSConf will focus on new users and contributors to FOSS together with advanced learning sessions. People can improve their knowledge and gain experience in speaking on and presenting FOSS related topics” – so says the official FOSSConf website (http://www.fossconf.in). Yep, this year’s FOSSConf was held at my college and the organizers were the ever-enthusiastic and…
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TamilKey plugin for Firefox
I came across this TamilKey plugin for Firefox that will help users to easily type in Tamil in the browser text fields. I came to know about this plugin from Subramani anna. Hence I was able to write my previous post in Tamil. The plugin is available here. Use it and enjoy as much as…
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இனிமையான விஷம்
Here is something I scribbled some time back! 🙂 உன் கண்ணில் நீர் வழிந்தால் என் உதிரத்தில் இனிமை கலக்குதடி காதலி துயருர இனிமை காணும் காதலன் மனிதனல்ல மிருகம் என்பார் யாவரும் அவர்களுக்கு எப்படி தெரியும் என் இனிமை என் விஷமென்று?