Summary - Entries from December 2006

11 Topics from December, 2006

mysql's innodb_file_per_table tweak

If you use mysql's innodb table engine, you might find it useful to add the innodb_file_per_table option to your my.cnf file (under the [mysqld] section). This will create ...

a letter to my friends

My dear friends, I know you love me and wish me well. I know Orkut has this feature where you can mail all your friends in one click, but if you really consider me such a ...

A.P.J Abdul Kalam on IIT

Atanu Dey has an interesting report about PanIIT 2006, which is the meeting of all IIT alumni. A.P.J Abdul Kalam was one of the speakers there and this is an extract from his ...

I never could get the hang of Thursdays

Do you know what a Nutrimatic Machine is and do you want to own one ? Do you know what the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is ? And do you know of a liquid that tastes ...

social value and personal value

I was reading Steve Pavlina's blog post about "Making Money Consciously" and I came upon a nice defination of social and personal values. If you want to earn income as a ...

woohooo!!!

The time right now is Fri Dec 29 00:31:08 IST 2006 and this blog post is brought to you from my emacs and a small php script using the magic of xml-rpc . I have not ...

having trouble reddit's rss on bloglines ?

If you use Bloglines and you have not been seeing any updates from Reddit on it then try to get your reddit feed from this rssmix feed . I have no idea why Bloglines is ...

I was just reading a very interesting article from Jeremy Allison of the samba team called The Land of "Nothing for free" . A very interesting quote My panel was ...

desperate to be noticed ?

Seen on one of the mailing lists that I am on I've heard it said - and find this to be true in enough cases to be useful as a rough guide - that men often try to ...

automatically subscribing to new folders in gnus

If you use gnus to read your imap, you might find this useful. Gnus does not automatically show new folders created in your IMAP server. However, you can get this behavior ...

Casino Royale

If you have not already seen the Casino Royale , you should take time out to see it. Unlike the previous newish-Bond movies this one is not an extended advertisement, but an ...