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Kaffeine, mceusb and irexec
I have a PVR 150 with the mceusb remote. My setup is a dual screen with an nvidia 6600GT with a monitor and a tv-out on the component out (Y – Pb – Pr; red-green-blue) working with mythfrontend running...
View ArticleCalling Card Solution
I’ve always hated the calling card solution to call back home. You have to dial the calling card access number, then optionally type in your pin number and then dial the international number that you...
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Laundry Hack
Everybody goes through the same rigmarole. Wash your clothes on a weekly basis, and use the dryer to dry them. Then you probably iron them, before you let them hang in your closet. Hack #1: Iron...
View Article150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty
I got this from my friend Sudheendra’s site. I have seen this tag on so many blogs and why not, it’s a wonderful tag! The name is ’150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty’. The rules are, 1. The things...
View ArticleApologies to Planet Ubuntu Readers
Attention WordPress Users: It turns out when I upgraded to WordPress 2.7, it killed the feed url that I had set up for Planet Ubuntu and defaulted to the main feed for my blog. Hence, all Ubuntu Planet...
View ArticleASUS Eee PC 1005HA : Installation Report
I just bought a netbook. It finally boiled down to this: ASUS Eee PC 1005HA. I bought it for the extra battery life, the improved processor power and loads of space. I promptly downloaded Ubuntu...
View ArticleAmazon: Windows XP Refund
I’ve been a linux user for quite a while now. I looked to buy a netbook without Windows on it, but due to market conditions, that did not seem possible. Based on this slashdot article, I went ahead and...
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Sennheiser HD202 Repair
I have a Sennheiser HD 202, which has served me well for the last 3 years. Recently, I tripped on the cable and broke the left ear wire (or made it loose at any rate). This led to intermittent song...
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Nexus One 6 Month Review
I ordered a Nexus One the day it was available. It has now been about 6 months since I first got the phone. Since then, I upgraded to Froyo (Android 2.2) when it was available. (Update: I now run...
View ArticleIt has been a while
It has been a while since I posted on the blog. Blogging took a backseat, but hopefully I am back here now.
View ArticleDirectory Watchdog
Found a python library to check if a directory changed (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog). Trying to use this for some stuff I am trying to do at work. The funny thing is that the last draft of...
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Update 2012 through 2013
It has been a terribly long time since I’ve blogged. It certainly has been a busy busy time. In the past two years, several things have happened – as expected. I’ve turned 30. Hit the BIG THREE O. It...
View ArticleMoved to Arch Linux
I recently wiped the Ubuntu install that I had been upgrading since 2007 and moved to Arch Linux. The main reason was that I have not upgraded my computer for a long long time (2007!) and my machine...
View ArticleThe TV Free Week Experiment
Lately, my wife and I have been thinking how much time we spend on TV/Internet/Phones. We’ve come to the conclusion that we spend too much time on these things. We are sufficiently caught up on all the...
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Kaffeine, mceusb and irexec
I have a PVR 150 with the mceusb remote. My setup is a dual screen with an nvidia 6600GT with a monitor and a tv-out on the component out (Y – Pb – Pr; red-green-blue) working with mythfrontend running...
View ArticleCalling Card Solution
I’ve always hated the calling card solution to call back home. You have to dial the calling card access number, then optionally type in your pin number and then dial the international number that you...
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Laundry Hack
Everybody goes through the same rigmarole. Wash your clothes on a weekly basis, and use the dryer to dry them. Then you probably iron them, before you let them hang in your closet. Hack #1: Iron...
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150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty
I got this from my friend Sudheendra’s site. I have seen this tag on so many blogs and why not, it’s a wonderful tag! The name is ‘150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty’. The rules are, 1. The things...
View ArticleA new beginning
Recently renewed my domain and hosting service to have access to this site again. Either I don’t have access to the older backups or I haven’t posted in a long long time (think this is more likely!)....
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