random thought from irc

[d1g1t] I just thought of an awesome blogging platform!
[d1g1t] weird
[d1g1t] but awesome
[d1g1t] plain html pages!
[d1g1t] we just write posts as html in text files in a folder, a program updates pages/links when we add a new file!
[d1g1t] one dynamic file for comments maybe
[d1g1t] rally rally fast
[d1g1t] the program could compress images and js too
[d1g1t] db-less
[d1g1t] might get chaotic for terribly large sites
[d1g1t] if people use comments. otherwise blazing fast!
* d1g1t patents it

Would it work? and what are the downsides?

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“A very popular alternative and more realistic method of explaining consumer’s demand is the Indifference Curve Analysis”

- General Economics (Common Proficiency Test), ICAI

I’ll be reading this all month ;(

Instructions:-
-> Grab the nearest book.
-> Open it to page 56.
-> Find the fifth sentence.
-> Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these
instructions.
-> Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual
one: pick the CLOSEST.

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Saad Akhtar suggested we use mailing lists to share new Indian webcomics we discover, so that people don’t regularly have to keep checking THIS post. So here it is!

Subscribe to IndianWebComics

Email:

Visit this group

http://groups.google.com/group/indianwebcomics

You can either join by entering your email in the above Box or you can follow it via RSS or Atom feeds. Note that you won’t be able to reply to mails if don’t join the group.

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I was trying to find a way to get live cricket scores on my desktop. I could have used retreived rss feeds every few minutes, but I found a simpler way on a mailing list Here, a python script by Sridhar.

I modified it a bit to fit my horizontal conky, and also the display format.

Click on image to see complete screenshot:

Download cricscore.py
and place it in your home folder.

To get the live score in the terminal, just type

python cricscore.py

If you want it to show in conky, just add this line to your .conkyrc file where you want it to show

${execi 30 python cricscore.py}

that will update the score every 30 seconds

Anyway, heres my .conkyrc script: .conkyrc. (for the rhythmbox script, check here)

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I’ll be referring to the main PC that updates from official mirrors as _server_ and the other PCs as _client_. Lets start.

———————— _Server_ Config —————————-
Open a terminal on the _server_ and type

sudo apt-get install apt-cacher apache2

(yep, you’ll need a webserver)

once thats done, open /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf in a text editor and modify to your needs.
The default port is 3142. The only thing I modified was path_map which lets you use aliases for repository hostnames

My path_map looks something like this.

path_map = ubuntu archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ; partner archive.canonical.com/ubuntu ; ubuntu-security security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ; lp-compiz ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu ; google dl.google.com/linux/deb ; ubuntutweak ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ubuntu

you can use full hostnames instead of aliases, but I prefer this.

Now you need to edit /etc/default/apt-cacher and set AUTOSTART to 1.

Now restart apt-cacher

sudo /etc/init.d/apt-cacher restart

Now update the repositories and upgrade your packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If you’re upgrading to Intrepid Ibex from Hardy Heron, Please Check http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

After the entire upgrade completes, run this command in terminal to import existing cached archives.

sudo /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-import.pl /var/cache/apt/archives

If it throws up an error, try

sudo /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-import.pl -s /var/cache/apt/archives

———————— _Client_ Config —————————-
First Check if the Apt-cacher server is running by opening
http://repository-server:3142/report in your browser (’repository-server’ here is the IP or hostname of the _server_ machine)

Then on the _client_ machines, open /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

And change the mirror to your local server’s IP/hostname
for example:
(If you used path_map)

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted

changes to

deb http://repository-server:3142/apt-cacher/ubuntu intrepid main restricted

Note: replace ‘repository-server’ with your _server_’s IP or hostname (in my case 192.168.0.3)

Otherwise (If you didn’t use path_map) change it to:

deb http://apt-cacher-server/apt-cacher/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted

Do this for all lines in sources.list that you want to update via the apt-cache server.

now you can use apt-get just like before.
to upgrade to Intrepid Ibex from Hardy Heron, Check http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

and click on upgrade to ubuntu 8.10

Reference links (might help you with troubleshooting)
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-set-up-a-repository-cache-with-apt-cacher
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Apt-Cacher-Server

You can also upgrade using apt-p2p – Learn more on torrentfreak

And I also suggest you use bittorrent for downloading the Cd and DVD ISOs so that there is lesser stress on the mirrors. If you have to use the http/ftp mirrors, try using a local mirror or one close to your country.

Get the Torrents here

See Whats New in Intrepid Ibex

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Its Unbelievable. Thought it was fake, but later found that snopes.com had verified this. This Photo, formed by 18000 posed soldiers, was taken in July 1918 at Camp Dodge, Iowa, as a part of a planned promotional campaign to sell war bonds during World War I

Some Stats:

Base to shoulder: 150 feet.
Right arm: 340 feet.
Widest part of arm holding torch: 12-1/2 feet.
Right thumb: 35 feet.
Thickest part of body: 29 feet.
Left hand (length): 30 feet.
Tablet in left hand: 27 feet.
Face: 60 feet.
Nose: 21 feet.
Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet.
Flame on torch.: 600 feet.
Torch and flame combined: 980 feet.
Number of men in flame of torch: 12,000
Number of men in torch: 2,800
Number of men in right arm: 1,200
Number of men in body, head and balance of figure only: 2,000

Total: 18,000

More @ Snopes

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I installed Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 (64bit) today. Installation was pretty easy, networking and screen resolution was configured already. Only had to enable Hardware Drivers for my nvidia graphics card. Even Flash worked in Firefox without any hurdles (it used to be an issue in 64bit versions).

The GRUB screen now shows “Last successful boot”, similar to what Windows shows after a crash.
From Ubuntu wiki:

On each successful boot, Intrepid will retain a copy of your running kernel and make it available from the boot loader as a “Last successful boot” option. This makes it possible for old kernel packages to be safely auto-removed by the package manager, instead of being kept indefinitely.

You can also have an Encrypted Private Directory using the ecryptfs-utils package
More info at UbuntuWiki

Crontab shows a menu that allows you to edit it in either vi, ed or nano

Nautilus now supports Tabs, Now I don’t need to open many windows to copy/paste files quickly.

Other stuff I noticed, Not sure if they’re New to Ubuntu.

Synaptics now shows the download size of packages and allows you to change the colors of packages according to status.

Ubuntu now shows breif system info when you log into your Intrepid Ibex machine via SSH.

And Firefox for some reason shows an about:rights page o_O

Bugs I noticed:
Network Manager seems to be missing in System > Administration > Network
User Switer Applet isn’t working

List of More Changes in Intrepid Ibex at Ubuntu Wiki

How to Get it:

Download The ISO images or Torrent

Or Upgrade from an Existing Installation – Press Alt+F2 and enter “update-manager -d” (without quotes)

WARNING

Due to an unresolved bug in the Linux kernel included in Alpha 6, it should not be used on Intel ethernet hardware handled by the e1000e driver (Intel GigE). Doing so may render your network hardware permanently inoperable.

NOTE: This is still an alpha release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on October 30th, 2008.

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More sketches that weren’t worth putting here.

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Here is the Video from Youtube:

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