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by vimalg2 15y ago
Obligatory Google Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?rls=en&q=ca...
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Linus Torvalds Doesn’t Understand User Space Storage(blog.gluster.com)
10 points by vimalg2 15y ago|1 comments
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by vimalg2 15y ago
I've been sleeping on a woven dried-grass mat for over 2 years. Best Sleep in my life. It all started by accident when we moved bachelor-house and a grass mat was the only available sleeping spot left at 2am. Benefits: - Insulated from cold
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by vimalg2 15y ago
Doing the fundamental 'compound lifts' at around 80% of your 1RM(1 rep max) for <=5 reps is great for whole body conditioning and gaining functional strength. I'm talking Squats, Deadlifts, and BenchPress with an olympic bar. Freeweigh
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How To Argue : A guide(theness.com)
5 points by vimalg2 15y ago|0 comments
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by vimalg2 15y ago
This made my day. In my day job as a TechnicalLead/PM/sysadmin/perfOptimizer, I do all of the 'non-coding' tasks daily. I guess I shouldn't feel so bad that I do all the non-coding grunt work for my team. They prefer to just write code. St
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Paras is my role model for the growing Indian Startup scene. # Bootstrapped # Good challenges at work. # Pays his engineers well because of Day 1 Cashflow. I sincerely hope he attracts the best talent; he deserves it. I cant say the same fo
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Large Hacker userbase.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Git and Hg accomplish essentialy the same thing. The platform support and tool/utility support for Mercurial on windows in important to note. I decided to choose Mercurial as the VCS for my 'work'. This was a team that had no prior exposure
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Just done watching it since i found a copy earlier today. Makes the US military's spin sound like Goebbels all over again.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
The live coverage is pretty good. I've quit watching TV for ages. But oddly, i'm hooked on their coverage for the past 48 hrs, via the live webcast. It reminds me of the good old BBC (before i found out they practiced censorship)
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Most "personal trainers" I saw knew nothing about basic, free weight lifts. This is spot-on where I live. (Kerala, India) The trainers have no experience with proper form coaching for the basic powerlifting exercises. All the gyms here
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by vimalg2 16y ago
I found 750words.com useful to get me started on the Private Journalling habit. It also helps with brainstorming on the days when i feel like doing that. The site uses game mechanics to keep you at it, until you no longer need the game mech
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Thanks, I understand somewhat after i read this.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
This actually worked for me on a recent quad-core amd with Ubuntu 10.04. My sunspider bench scores on Google chrome 8.x shot up by 30%, IIRC. This was a couple of weeks ago. It seemed like the CPU graph seemed to show higher cpu utilizatio
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by vimalg2 16y ago
KeePassX databases synced everywhere using Dropbox. and just One big random passphrase to lock them all.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Oops; i was wondering why this was such a silent thread.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
This is a concrete step in taking the fight to Microsoft's turf - corporate networks. Now, all they need to do is allow someone to build a sandboxed IE6 instance inside Chrome so those networks still on IE6 for 'enterprise compatibility' ca
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by vimalg2 16y ago
This worked for me on GNUlinux/Firefox 3.6 103 contacts imported. I decided I wanted a backup, just in case <insert_screweduser_scenario_here_>
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by vimalg2 16y ago
1) Join a gym. Lift progressively heavier weights. Its fine if you stick to Deadlifts, Squats, and Bench-press (all preferably with free weights) i.e the basic [functional+compound] lifts. Make sure a trainer corrects you on proper Form or
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by vimalg2 16y ago
TVS Electronics India makes a cheap, decent 'Cherry Blue'-based mechanical called the 'TVS Gold' for around $30 (converted from INR). I have one. I'm thinking of buying one for the day gig as well. Pics: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?ti
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Trivandrum, Kerala, India : Rent+Utilities for a 750.sq.ft 2BHK (it was a steal): $90 512k unmetered Internet : $24 Occasional eating-out and groceries :$140-$150 and thats for 2 people (I asked my mum to move in with me after dad passed a
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by vimalg2 16y ago
If you don't have a RSA key stored in your Ubuntu SSO account, they will provide a temporary password, that you have to change immediately after login.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Fun Things to do when the timer hits the low digits: Start 'sudo rm -rf' ing twigs, branches, trunks of your filesystem. I took a chance on /var before losing access to the instance. That was fun.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
I was provisioned a Small instance (with the 1.7GB ram). Did everyone else get a Micro? Unixbench 5.1.2 gave me a score of 133.5 on the one I booted. Anyone know if this is pretty much par for the course on a EC2.small? BTW, I've gotten exc
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Efficient secure Snapshotted backups. It says so in the 'Design' section. (maybe that ought to be on the front page as well) http://www.tarsnap.com/design.html
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by vimalg2 16y ago
We've been using name.com at work and for personal use for over 2 years. Its clean, no BS, and just works. Second, it lets my boss deposit cash as name.com prepaid 'credits'; so, I can act on domain purchases/renewals without running to the
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by vimalg2 16y ago
I think thats a really great idea. I sure would like a 'hard way' courseware for C. (in addition to my trusty copy of K&R C for reference)
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by vimalg2 16y ago
I agree with this. And I ride in Trivandrum, a city in South India with aggressive drivers who get mad when they have to slow down and get caught in the really intense sun, minus air-con. (I've noticed a lot of middle-class folk here save
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by vimalg2 16y ago
IIRC RHEL still depends on Python 2.4 for a ton of internal administrative scripts. Nobody at Redhat wants to mess with the wiring in a working system.

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