At work, we get complete access to the online safari bookshelf. The number of titles present there on technical and management subjects is mind boggling. Plus, every week atleast 20 books get added to the list.
I have been adding all the good ones to my bookmarks, but never get time to read any ..
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A colleague at office brought some kachagola sandesh from kolkata. Generally I’m not too sentimental about “home made stuff” (in that I do not crave it as much as others do, but love eating it nevertheless). However, this time it was really nice .. maybe because its been a long time since I’ve had “real” [...]
I bought the Ayn Rand masterpiece, The Fountainhead, yesterday. I had hoped to read it at a leisurely pace, over a period of a week or so. (Un)fortunately, I completed it in a day (3 hours last night 7 hours non stop today). And that without skimming too much over the monologues present therein.
As expected, [...]
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SHA-1 is the hashing algorithm used for signing digital content. It basically takes a data stream, does oodles of computations on it, and comes up with a “unique” fingerprint that is much shorter. This can be used to sign your mail (pgp), files, whatever ..
A team of researches have found a way to find [...]
Someone posted this link to a flash animation. It is great !
Disclaimer : Keep headphones on !
Being able to use this keyboard would be a dream come true ..
I tried to set up tightvnc with ssh port forwarding
Steps
1. Remote machine : Run VNC Server , Note down the display number
For eg - server name remoteserv, display :20
2. local machine :
ssh -N -T -L 5901:localhost:5920 remoteserv
Here, -T : No tty (Optional)
-N : No Shell (Optional)
-L : <local port>:<local machine>:<remote port>
-C : compression [...]
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