DeeKaying @ Nettle

Life goes on much as before,  The characters change but the books are old The books, they speak; the words unfold Life's sweetest melodies. ~~ Divye Kapoor, 14 May 2011

It feels really good once in a while to receive a testimonial from a person you've worked with, one who truly understands you and your abilities. Swagat has been a dear friend - one with whom I've spent countless hours and from whom I've learnt a lot. As part of the usual rituals before passing out from campus, he wrote me a testimonial. Here's what he had to say: Swagat Konchada  says:   In a few days, we'll go our ways out of this place. In a few months, you'll start a new life and all this  would be nothing but a memory. However, I think  our memories would be the best of the lot in my mind.    I learned more from Divye than from the rest of the campus. He's a treasure of uncalculable amount of knowledge. And the best thing is there is no mystery behind why he is the DK. Many people have a superstition that hard work is for someone who has no ability/skill. DK is the first person who shattered such orthodoxy in me by proving how a combination...

Credit: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/50311 So, a number of people have posted that they don't like the new Unity Desktop interface so much on the new Ubuntu 11.04 . You're reading this guide because you probably are having trouble adjusting to it. I, on the other hand, am starting to find Unity quite an improvement over the so called Ubuntu Classic interface. So, to help you out, here are a couple of tips that will push you along on the path of becoming a Unity fanboy. Observation: The main menu bar for all applications has been shifted into the title bar. This is quite similar to the way the Mac handles things. The currently running application's title bar is hidden in the top bar. To show it, you can either move your mouse over to the top bar or you can press the Alt key. I personally prefer the Alt key as it's a keyboard friendly way of accessing the menu.  Many people have gripes with the left sidebar present in the Unity interface. The primary problem bei...

Another superb song makes its appearance on the Bollywood scene. Sadi Gali from Tanu Weds Manu is a perfect Punjabi Dance track. Performed by Lehmber Husainpuri from RDB, words aren't sufficient to describe it. Just listening to it makes you want to jump up and start tapping your feet to the music. It's even garnered over a million plays on Youtube. In an effort to make this song's lyrics accessible to the masses, here's the meaning of the song in English paragraph by paragraph. I made it while listening to this song non-stop on loop. Hope you enjoy it!   Kudiyan de vich phir hassdi khed di [Hasdi] x 4 Khed di Ho, gutt di parandi teri naag wangu meldi [Naagawa-] x 4 -ngu meldi Again you're smiling and playing in the midst of girls Ho, Your "gutt da paranda"* resembles the moves of a snake gutt da paranda = An artificial hair extender often worn by Punjabi women to increase the length of their locks. Kudiyan de vich phire hassdi khed di College nu j...

I'd got this question from Ahmet from Turkey via Aardvark . I'd known this answer for a while and it was trivial to reply. For posterity, here's my answer: The short and sweet answer: 1) Use the chmod tool to remove the "others read/write/execute" permission bits from the directories that you don't want others to be viewing. A command like     chmod 750 /path/to/directory/root  should do the trick. You might even want to consider the -R option for recursive application of these permissions. Note: if you don't use the recursive option, you might be able to ls or cd into a subdirectory even if the parent directory has the permissions disabled. 2) For an explanation of why this works, just have a look at this site:  http://www.perlfect.com/articles/chmod.shtml  - the directory permissions section should make things clear. A short synopsis is: Read permission on a directory - Allows ls to list the files in the directory Write permission on a directory ...

From: Sue Gardner <...@ wikimedia.org > Date: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:41 PM Subject: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation Dear Divye, Thank you for your gift of USD 100 to the Wikimedia Foundation, received on December 8, 2010. I'm very grateful for your support. Your donation celebrates everything Wikipedia and its sister sites stand for: the power of information to help people live better lives, and the importance of sharing, freedom, learning and discovery. Thank you so much for helping to keep these projects freely available for their more than 400 million monthly readers around the world. Your money supports technology and people. The Wikimedia Foundation develops and improves the technology behind Wikipedia and nine other projects, and sustains the infrastructure that keeps them up and running. The Foundation has a staff of about fifty, which provides technical, administrative, legal and outreach support for the global community of volunteers who write and ed...

I just made a donation of $100 to Wikipedia in recognition of the shared treasure of knowledge it maintains on such a huge wealth of topics. Thank you so much Wikipedia for all that you've done for me. I am indebted to you.