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- http://introspection.sandipb.net focuses on my interest in the socio-political side of my country.
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- Amazon compared to FB. Awesome comment. "But Amazon SELLS things. Facebook is just people dicking around. - Jacob" http://tcrn.ch/biLHCn 6 days ago
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Author Archives: Sandip Bhattacharya
Regular expressions in Python by example
Every time I come back to Python from the land of Perl here at work, I need to re-learn how to use regular expressions in Python, as it is, IMHO, quite a bit different from Perl. Rather than trawling through … Continue reading
The constant conflict between the Maker’s Schedule and Manager’s Schedule
This is something that has bothered me always for the past several years, especially in the period when I was working on my own. Paul Graham has managed to put this so eloquently into words: … There are two types … Continue reading
Quick local DNS caching for your workstation in Ubuntu
The latest Ubuntu releases makes it real easy to set up a local DNS cache for your workstation using dnscache from the well-known djbdns software by D. J. Bernstein. For those who have historically installed djbdns/ucspi-tcp/daemontools from source because of … Continue reading
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The magical moment that made me a FOSS guy forever
11 years back, I was just yet another guy out of college with a background of Turbo C/C++ and Pascal as most other batchmates of mine. My software career could have gone anywhere. PC Quest Linux was just a toy … Continue reading
Quick tip: Merging photos from two different cameras
This time when we went to Pondicherry on the year end, we took two cameras – I took my Rebel XTi and my wife the LX3. While uploading our photos to Flickr, we had a problem. We wanted to merge … Continue reading
Adding new CA certificates in Ubuntu (Jaunty)
A quick tip. I couldn’t find this from a quick search when I really needed it. The problem – command line programs like fetchmail use the system wide openssl CA certificates to verify the authenticity of the server certificates they … Continue reading
Using the official Flickr uploadr on Ubuntu
I normally use jUploader for uploading photos to Flickr from my Ubuntu Jaunty box. However, since I got the amazing Panasonic DMC-LX3 compact camera, I have been uploading HD videos too to Flickr. Now none of the FOSS tools that … Continue reading
Akamai awesomeness and Opendns lameness
Akamai footprint awesomeness. My IP address. sandipb@pluto:~$ wget -O – -q http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp;echo 122.167.0.79 sandipb@pluto:~$ host 122.167.0.79 79.0.167.122.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ABTS-KK-Dynamic-079.0.167.122.airtelbroadband.in. Akamai CDN for downloading Adobe AIR. sandipb@pluto:~$ host airdownload.adobe.com airdownload.adobe.com is an alias for airdownload.wip3.adobe.com. airdownload.wip3.adobe.com is an alias … Continue reading
Getting more printable PDFs from texinfo manuals
Texinfo manuals are used primarily by various GNU projects like Glibc, gcc, gdb, etc. Texinfo is an extremely powerful format for writing high quality professional documentation and can be easily converted to HTML, PDF, Docbook XML and various other formats. … Continue reading
Removing encryption from (legitimate!) PDF files on Ubuntu
Many service providers have started encrypting the statements that they send you. While at some level, it does add some amount of security when the path to your inbox is not very secure. However, it is sometimes a major pain … Continue reading
