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 Thanks to the sponsorship by GNOME foundation, I was able to attend GUADEC 2014 held at Strasbourg, France. It was a great experience for me as I was attending a developer conference of such kind for the first time. There was a huge attendance for the talks with both the rooms having considerable audience for each and every talk.   There were lots of talks in the conference and the

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So right now I am in the beautiful city of Strasbourg, France surrounded by great minds of Gnome. How exciting! This is my first GUADEC and I am here as a GSoC mentor and maintainer for Getting Things Gnome!. The talks here have been really good so far and I am looking forward to the  next 2 days of the conference. The better part of the conference though, is not the talks that you

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    Locking your screen on closing the lid is no longer an option in Gnome. Don't you hate it? I for one have to close the lid often and I hate it when the laptop is suspended. I had to go over a lot of places for getting a solution and finally got one after lots of IRC discussions, a bug report (which I marked invalid myself ;) ) and obviously googling. TL; DR version: There are 2

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    All the curses that English language has to offer will not be enough to calm me when I think of my college's network administrators. You can see in their faces that whatever you request them to do, their answer is going to be NO. No matter how much I requested them, they did not allow me SSH access to outside world :(     Here's what my problem is: I contribute to open

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In case you have installed Django using a package manager, then there are chances that you will face the following issues and the django installation pitfalls page might not help you. I faced the same and here are the solutions that worked for me. django-admin.py not found: The reason for this error to occur is, the directory of the file does not belong to your system path. You can either add

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     Everytime I start coding for GTG, I have to start terminal, nautilus and a browser(in case of bugs ;) ). For a lazy person like me, this is a very boring task. Hence i just came up with an easy solution : environment creator which takes a set of your tasks and turns them into a linux command.      With all the tasks done in just one go, I can consider it to be

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    Since, I have been doing some research work at college these past 2 months. I have been getting several weird ideas of surveys and testing stuff     I first tested my laptop's performance with 100% power usage. Will share the results in the next post. Now I want to know how random can people think.    We may think that we are selecting some random number but

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    Yesterday in order to solve a coding question I had to swap 4 digits in place! Now I knew the formula to swap 2 digits in place, so I thought, the math cannot be that hard for n number of digits can it?     Turns out I was right! I tried creating some formulas and then, ahha! I found it! Really simple one! Here it is:    Say you have variables a,b,c,d and you

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    Well believe it or not I have been busy! Hence was not able to post anything since long. Though, the good thing is, I have been busy working on things that I love and hence I am not getting bored! Here are 2 things that I am working on right now. 1. Getting Things GNOME!          Getting things GNOME! is an organizer for Gnome Desktop environment. Needless

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    Hello world! Sorry didn't publish anything since long, I am lazy and you know it.         Anyways, due to our performance at ICPC Asia regionals at Amritapuri, I got an internship offer from Directi (big deal :) ). As a part of the interview procedure I had to give a phone interview totally based on Algos. I was asked following 2 questions:     1.

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  I have always envied Iron man for Jarvis and all other cool toys that he has. I used to envy all those people who had some or the other type of automation in their life.   Even I wanted some automation through my computer. First I had thought of making a twitter bot that would tweet the news of the day from Wikipedia. I had also a php script to scrap the necessary data&nbsp

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     It has happened several times that I have visited Wikipedia home page just to look into today's history. But, then there is so much of information, that you simply get distracted, don't you? So I decided how about, getting just what I needed? I had once stumbled upon a CS 50 video on Scraping data from internet, hence I had a basic idea as to what to do.     But I

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  Last year I had created a shell script which showed me my academic timetable for the day. I was a newbie in shell scripting at that time and hence the script was not so good. Hence, here is tt or I should say timetable2.0 ?   This time I have stored my timetable in a timetable.txt file so that whenever I need to modify the timetable, I don't need to modify the script. Also, the code

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    The Facebook Hacker Cup qualification round results came out yesterday night. I had attempted 2 out of 3 questions and both of them came out correct. Yay! I am actually lucky to have solved 2 questions as I was procrastinating about solving another question after I submitted the first one. You need to submit only one correct solution to get qualified further. This procrastination

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   Hey all! Here's a post on how to install Linux on a virtual box. I will be giving the demo on a Window 7 machine, using Virtual Box version 4.0.10 and will be installing Ubuntu 11.10 on it. So, let's start! First step: Getting Virtual Box You can download it from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads It is a  simple exe, just run it and you have your virtual box

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   Its always great to do something that messes your computer! How about doing something that makes your browser take up 50% of your CPU!   Javascript has window.location object, generally used for redirecting your page.  e.g. window.location = "http://www.google.com" redirects you to Google homepage.  What would happen if you redirected the page to itself! An infinite

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  At 8:30 am On 12th December, Aditya Prajapati, Arth Patel and myself or in other words Team Zion wwere sitting in the Computer Lab of Amrita University waitingo for the ACM ICPC Asia Regionals to start.   Going back 2 days, 10th December morning, we were completing our final examination of the 5th Semester. Just after the exam we rushed to the printers for our tickets, then went to

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   Today I returned to my hostel after a 2 week long Diwali Break. Well, since it was Diwali it was obvious that I wouldnot be doing a single bit of coding and I am not complaining, but the last 3 days at home were free so I thought of getting in the mood slowly. So I picked up an old painting application that i had developed.    The previous one was a simple jQuery

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  First of all, sorry that I have not been posting anything lately. Have a lot to share but unfortunately higher priorities coming up!   So, today was the online selection round of ICPC 2011 for Amritapuri regionals. Now, as the dates for Regionals at Kanpur clashes with that of our end-sem exams, that was ruled out! So, we HAD to perform well to get selected(no option,none at all)!

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   Since last week or so I had a strange craving to play the games that I used to play when I was in school. Those were all small and short games unlike the Most Wanteds or the Counter Strikes and all. Surprisingly, the only long running game that I used to play was Age Of Empires-II. A single regicide match would last for 15+ hours but not in a single stretch ofcourse.    

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   It is always very difficult for me to remember the time-table, especially for the first few weeks of semester. The condition was worse this semester, so I HAD to find a solution for this.I know, taking a photograph of the timetable would do it but I thought of doing something new (yeah!!)      Since, the start of this semester, I had started using Linux and so I

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   Ever since I heard about jQuery, I wanted to use it,explore it and play with but due to some other reason(or in other words procrastination!) I was unable to do so. Finally, last Friday and set and learnt it from w3schools, the best available tutor I guess. Now, coming to the topic: What? Well Pixel paint is an under development painting tool that I have created and uploaded to

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       This post is continuation of one of my old post . Firefox lets us tweak it in a large number of ways and hence there is always a scope of your getting a better performance out of the browser. For eg, if you are contnuously online and if suppose you donot frequently visit same pages, you may limit the cache size on the disk or ram to reduce the memory usage of

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   Many times writing tutorials, you may need to put up some questions for the user to answer. It maybe just to give him an example or for some other reason. But, they all have the same working: type the answer and then press the "check!" button. Some will give an alert saying you are incorrect or others will just put up a text or something.But in all of them you have to press the

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  I'm sure all the tweeters will be following different people for different purposes. Some for news, some people coz they are family, some coz you are their fans and many more reasons. Some of these people tend to tweet a lot and hence you timeline is flooded with their tweets.   It happens with me many times that Engadget is tweeting excessively while I am not interested in them right

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