synergy with two macbooks

if you are trying to use synergy - http://synergy-foss.org/ with two macbooks pick version 1.3.1. Because with other versions the keyboard won't switch to the clients at all.

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My Firefox Addon Statistics

 

I never thought that 67000 people will download this extension when I wrote this :) It grew organically and fun to watch.

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Simply True & Utterly Humorous: Life in graphs

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Annu K Rekha <annu.rekha@in.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:25 AM
Subject: Simply True & Utterly Humorous: Life in graphs
To:

 
Annu K Rekha
Business Controls
IBM India Private Limited
Embassy Golf Links Business Park,
Email: annu.rekha@in.ibm.com
 
Early bird gets the worm, but the Second mouse gets the cheese.
 
 

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Bangalore Parking Rules

Vehicle Towed

I had my vehicle towed for the first time in bangalore today. I parked my (friend's) two wheeler in front of a SBI ATM on MG road to withdraw some cash. I did not notice that there was a towing vehicle behind me and also did not know that I was not supposed to park there. It took me just 45 seconds to figure out that the atm was not working, I turned back and my vehicle was being loaded into the towing vehicle. I argued that I did not know that I should not park here and pleaded to give the vehicle back. But the towers instructed me to come to the traffic police station, pay the fine and pick the vehicle.

At the Traffic Police Station

I took a auto immediately, rushed to the police station mentioned. My two wheeler was already chained in front of the station, ultra fast. I went to the station and enquired for the procedure. They instructed me to pay 300 rupees fine and take the vehicle. It was very straight forward, a) pay the fine b) get the receipt c) ride the vehicle back. I should say that I was very happy with the experience at the station. There is no unnecessary questions, no asks for bribe, etc, etc. The auto owner mentioned that Bangalore is like United States and policemen are very strict. All in all I felt very happy about the experience, even though I had to pay 300 rupees. I made a mistake and I paid for it. I should better know the parking and traffic rules at Bangalore before I start to drive.

Quirks

Note that there were no documents asked at the station to prove that you own the vehicle. I just provided my driving license (tamilnadu license) and 300 rupees. I also did specify the vehicle number. Its just very easy to go outside the station, look at a vehicle that is chained, note down the number, go in pay the fine and take the vehicle away. So if your vehicle is towed I advice you to go and get it back as soon as possible. Obviously someone else needs a key to drive your vehicle away, but its very easy to get a master key for some vehicles.

Receipts

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Internet Explorer 9 Pro Challenge

1 . Webpages and applications load noticeably faster and are incredibly more responsive with Internet Explorer 9 because of:   New Document Object Model (DOM) Re-Engineered Layout New JavaScript Engine (Chakra) All of the Above

2 . Internet Explorer 9 Beta added which security feature to help protect end users from malware and phishing attacks?   Microsoft Forefront Client Security SmartScreen Filter Microsoft Security Essentials All of the Above

3 . Which Operating System version has the additional components required for automatic installation of the RTM version Internet Explorer 9 (when it is released)?   Windows XP SP2 Windows Vista Windows 7 RTM Windows 7 SP1

4 . Internet Explorer 9 provides the following new Group Policy setting (among others) to support its new features:   Prevent Deleting Download History Disable add-on Performance Notifications Allow Internet Explorer 8 Shutdown Behaviour All of the Above

5 . Which of the following IE7 and IE8 settings is migrated after Internet Explorer 9 Beta upgrade?   Tabbed Browsing SmartScreen Filter User Interface Layout All of the Above

6 . Compatibility View mode allows websites that were designed for __________ to work properly in Internet Explorer 9.   Windows Internet Explorer 5 Windows Internet Explorer 6 Windows Internet Explorer 7 All of the Above

7 . Internet Explorer 9 Beta provides for approximately how many Group Policy Settings to help streamline desktop management and support?   1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500

8 . What can IT Pros use to create custom, branded versions of Internet Explorer 9 that they can deliver as standalone packages or with other software and services?   Internet Explorer Administration Kit Internet Explorer Customization Kit Internet Explorer Deployment Kit Internet Explorer Management Kit

9 . Which toolkit contains tools and documentation for evaluating and mitigating application compatibility issues before deploying Windows 7?   Application Compatibility Toolkit Application Evaluation Toolkit Application Migration Toolkit Application Administration Toolkit

10 . The Blocker Toolkit allows IT Pros to block __________ installation through automatic updates.   Windows 7 RTM Internet Explorer 8 Windows 7 SP1 Internet Explorer 9 Beta

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Tips to watch YUI Theater videos on your iPad

Just wanted to share some tips from @miraglia which he shared on a mailing list. Two things will make your life better when watching YUI Theater videos on your iPad.

#1: HD versions.

     Since late last year, YUI Theater made HD (480p) versions of all videos available for download (e.g., http://yui.zenfs.com/theater/grove-zen-hd.mov ).  The easiest way to view these on your iPad is to use an app like GoodReader to download and view them.  YUI Theater will do that for all videos that they will shoot at YUIConf this year. 

     They will also set up a YUI Theater HD podcast on iTunes to allow you to automate this in case you don't have GoodReader.  The current iTunes channel only downloads the low-resolution version.  You can use iTunes today by manually downloading the HD version, adding it to your iTunes library, and then putting it on a playlist that syncs to your iPad. 

#2: Better formatting of code and slides

     We do almost all YUI Theater work using personal equipment -- we don't have expensive Yahoo! studio gear.  But where possible we are now recording screen and speaker separately and showing the screen in the maximum resolution allowed by the video dimensions -- see http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=glass-node (in the middle) for an example of what that looks like.  Especially for talks that have a lot of live coding, that format helps us see the screen a lot better in the video.

     We won't do this for every talk, but we'll do as much of it as we can.

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Untitled

I recently started using Titanium from appcelerator for mobile development and wanted to share some tips. Its actually more of the problems I encountered and solutions I discovered.

Problem 1 - A project created by my friend won't import properly on my machine. When I mean it won't import properly, titanium developer reported that the import was successful. But when I navigate to test & package tab, it would be blank. 

Solution: The problem here was that my friend did not commit the build directory that was created by titanium, to the repository. So when I imported the project there was no build directory in it. Titanium should ideally error out while importing or atleast give some sort of warning, but it did not do that. And normally as engineers, we assume that build directory contains some build output so we won't commit them. But you have to when you develop with Titanium.

Problem 2 - When I try to create a new mobile project, titanium will say "error creating project, try again" but nothing about what the error is.

Solution: the problem here was the default sdk version selected by titanium when I created a new project was not supported. So I had to change it to successfully create a project. Again, a generic message from titanium here doesn't help much. Once I change the sdk to 1.2.0 it was successful.

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An old conversation with Douglas Crockford

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 at 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Minor fix in json.js
To: Prathapnirmal <prathapnirmal@gmail.com>

Thanks.

Prathapnirmal wrote:

Hi Douglas,
 First of all thanks for the awsome JSON. Even a subset of javascript does excellent job.I am using json.js in one of my projects and came across a minor bug which requires a fix. It's in the filter walker function,

 if (typeof filter === 'function') {

                       function walk(k, v) {
                           if (v && typeof v === 'object') {
                               for (var i in v) {

                                   if (v.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
                                       v[i] = walk(i, v[i]);
                                   }
                               }
                           }

                           return filter(k, v);
                       }

                       j = walk('', j);

                   }
                   return j;

 The final result of the walker should be the return value, else the following example fails,

 var filter = function(k, v) {
   switch(v.type) {
      case type1:
         return type1();
              case type2
          ....
   }
 }
    var json_data = {type: "type1", collection: [{type: "type2", ...}]};
  var type1_obj = json_data.parseJSON(filter);
  In the above example I will be expecting a type1 object whereas what will  I actually get is a simple object. The actual reason is that the final object that is created in the filter function is lost.

Again thanks for such a good alternative to xml. Please let me know on what should I do to do this fix so that it becomes useful to everyone and not everyone spends time on debugging the same issue.

thanks
~
Prathap

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Keep Life Simple

• Follow your heart
• Find a new perspective
• Have a sense of wonder
• Find people you love
• Set goals
• Help others
• Dance
• Pamper yourself
• Face your fears
• Go to a museum
• Exercise
• Limit Television
• Get in touch with nature
• Lighten up
• Get a good nights sleep
• Read books
• Buy yourself flowers
• Don't compare yourself with others
• Be open to new ideas
• Don't focus on negative thoughts
• Focus on creating what you desire
• Make time just to have fun
• Keep the romance in your life
• Make a gratitude list
• Want what you have
• Be true to yourself!

 

Keep life simple!! - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=446284490742

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My Status Messages

• RTFM - Read the _dash_ manual
• People, most important asset for any company - invest in them, rest will follow
• I make design decisions in my shower
• Two wrongs is not right but three lefts are, both are bad in engineering

Mozilla Add-ons: Speed DNS 0.1 reviewed by Juan Manuel Rodriguez Alvarado

Just got my Speed DNS Addon approved on Mozilla! Check it out.

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From: Mozilla Add-ons <nobody@mozilla.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:37 PM
Subject: Mozilla Add-ons: Speed DNS 0.1 reviewed by Juan Manuel Rodriguez Alvarado
To: prathapnirmal@gmail.com

Congratulations! Your nominated add-on, Speed DNS, has been reviewed by a Mozilla Add-ons editor who approved your add-on to be public.

Your most recent version (0.1) has also been made public.

You can view your public add-on now at: http://addons.mozilla.org/addon/54648

Review Information:
Reviewer: Juan Manuel Rodriguez Alvarado
Comments: Congratulations, your add-on has been approved for public status. Due to caching and mirroring of AMO, it may take a couple of hours for your add-on to appear public, so please be patient.

Keep up the good work!

It is difficult to verify the performance gain as DNS resolution occurs very quickly, but apparently the code aims to help you save a few miliseconds :)

If you have questions about this review, please reply to this email or join #addons on irc.mozilla.org.

Mozilla Add-ons
http://addons.mozilla.org

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My meetings this week

I was wondering on how much meetings I had this week and was trying to write some thing to figure that out automatically. AppleScript came to help since I was using ical and it took me about 3 hours to start from basics to get what I have, the following code. Result is 18 meetings and the total time I spend on meetings is 16 hours.

global total_meeting_hours

global num_meetings

set total_meeting_hours to 0

set num_meetings to 0

tell application "iCal"

tell calendar "calendar"

set theEvents to every event

repeat with e in theEvents

set sd to start date of e

set sm to month of sd

set d to day of sd

if sm contains March and (d > 21 and d < 27) then

set ed to end date of e

set h to (ed - sd) / (60 * 60)

set m_summary to summary of e

set total_meeting_hours to total_meeting_hours + h

set num_meetings to num_meetings + 1

end if

end repeat

end tell

end tell

 

display dialog total_meeting_hours

display dialog num_meetings

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Crockford's Talk

• HTML was derived from SGML. SGML is something used internally at IBM and Tim adopted it for world wide web
• The browser makers went into a competition on who could make the best sense of a very bad html document
• Next is the end of all things!

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Yahoo Maps

Its very inconvenient that I have to do an extra click on the text box to start typing in something. Why don't they auto focus?

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Why Google Will Die One Day!

I was trying to post a comment on a youtube video today and found that there was a bug in the comment feature. I am not sure on what the bug is but it surprised me that, a major destination on web had a bug on a very basic feature with a lot of talented engineers behind it. Where is the flaw? process? ownership? View this screencast (watch it on screencast if you cannot see on whats going on) -
View on screencast.com »

 

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கனவா நினைவா

(மணம்)
கனவா நினைவா என் கண்கள் தேடும் தீவா
உறவா உயிரா என் மனதில் பூத்த பூவா
உனை வேராக உறிஞ்சிடுவேனா
எனை தீயாக சுடுபவள் நீயா
மழையாய் மனதில் விழுந்தவள் நீயே தானா...

(மலர்)
எனை தாங்கும் புவி தாயே
உயிரான மெய் நீயே
இதயத்தில் இன்று கேட்கும் இசை நீயடா
கடலோர அலை நீயே
எனை தீண்ட வருவாயே
நிழலாக நானும் அன்பே நிஜம் நீயடா
மலரில் மனமாய் ஒன்று சேர்ந்தவன் நீயடா

(நிழல்)
கனவாய் நினைவாய் என் கண்கள் தேடும் தீவா
உறவா உயிரா என் மனதில் பூத்த பூவா
(நிஜம்)
உனை வேராக உறிஞ்சிடுவேனா
எனை தீயாக சுடுபவள் நீயா
(நிழல்)
மழையாய் மனதில் விழுந்தவன் நீயே தானா...

(உயிர் - நிழல் + நிஜம்)
கனவா நினைவா என் கண்கள் தேடும் தீவா
உறவா உயிரா என் மனதில் பூத்த பூவா..

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Events Evolved by Luke Smith

• Event handling history- we normalized the event listening mechanism and the event objects are normalized today.
• Normalized subscription, normalized event handling, DOM like method names
• In YUI3 the node instance gives a dom like contenxt, we give you the DOM and it works!
• example - node.on("click", clickHandler) - this is more of JQuery style where everything is JQuery
• custom events are normalized too from YUI 2 to 3. The event methods are shortened now

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YUI3 Performance - Matt Sweeney

• use the minimal seed or the seed plus loader
• third way to do it is to have one big combo handler and do YUI().use("*", function(){}) This will make sure that you have everything you need at the beginnning. It also avoids addditional http request
• lazy loading - using the use statements you can literally load everyhing on demand, except for the seed. This works for any dependencies such as css, etc.
• imageloader helps deferring the load of images - developer.yahoo.com/yui/imageloader
• you can either use modules to load your own code, or do a get script call with a function callback. The modules has the dependencies detection feature and load them which is great.
• You can use custom class to do manual event delegation in YUI2. You can do the same using delegate() in YUI3, which is a performance benefit?
• the listener objects that you get back for event listeners have methods on which you can call detach() to remove them
• Y.later - runs asynchronously

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YUI3 First Concepts

• yui+loader is the seed file which should be loaded initially and it will take care of loading the rest
• yui-min is still minimal if you are concerned about the yui + loader size which is 11kb. yui-min is just 6kb
• add phase is where you can load your custom code from custom location
• Al the modules in YUI3 are broken down into submodules so that you can selectively load what you want. For example if you are using just xhr in connection, you can just load io-min and you are done. This helps you a lot in bringing down the overall footprint

 

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Benefits of Drinking!

 

BENEFITS OF DRINKING....Decide ur BRAND now, if u care about ur healthJ A Common message to everyone who says drinking is bad. Here are the advantages of each brand that people drink. DCSL EXTRA SPECIAL Protects your heart prevents constipation Blocks diarrhea Improves lung capacity Cushions joints         WHITE DIAMOND Combats cancer Controls blood pressure Saves your eyesight Shields against Alzheimer's Slows aging process         BLUE LABEL Aids digestion Lowers cholesterol Protects your heart Stabilizes blood sugar Guards against liver disease         DOUBLE DISTILLED Battles diabetes Lowers cholesterol Helps stops strokes Controls blood pressure Smoothes skin         OLD RESERVE Protects your heart Quiets a cough Strengthens bones Controls blood pressure Blocks diarrhea         RITZ Prevents constipation Helps hemorrhoids Lowers cholesterol Combats cancer Stabilizes blood sugar         RICHORT Controls blood pressure Combats cancer Strengthens bones Protects your heart Aids weight loss         HANNEPIER Combats cancer Protects your heart Stabilizes blood sugar Boosts memory Prevents constipation         FRANKLIN Strengthens bones Saves eyesight Combats cancer Protects your heart Controls blood pressure         VSO Combats cancer Prevents constipation Promotes weight loss Protects your heart Helps hemorrhoids         GALLERY Saves eyesight Controls blood pressure Lowers cholesterol Combats cancer Supports immune system         RED RUM Saves eyesight Protects your heart Prevents constipation Combats cancer Promotes weight loss         DARK RUM Protects against Prostate Cancer Combats Breast Cancer Strengthens bones Banishes bruises Guards against heart disease         HANSEN Protects your heart Combats Cancer Ends insomnia Slows aging process Shields against Alzheimer's         BLACK WHITE Promotes weight loss Protects your heart Lowers cholesterol Combats Cancer Controls blood pressure         RED LABEL Aids digestion Soothes sore throat Clears sinuses Combats Cancer Boosts immune system         BLACK LABEL Promotes weight loss Helps stops strokes Lowers cholesterol Combats Cancer Controls blood pressure         GOLD LABEL Protects your heart Boosts memory Protects your heart Combats Cancer Supports immune system   spanspanspanspan

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