My personal laptop is now loaded with Ubuntu 9.04. I know I know..am late. I was always weary of running dual OSes on a system. But looking at the ease with which you can load a whole new OS, I could not stop myself. All good things don’t come free ? Not true. Ubuntu is [...]
May 25, 2008
If you are filling air next time at the petrol bank… just look for this raw looking blue box. Its a nitrogen air filler. If you fill it today, you can forget re-filling for next 6 months!! Amazing alva?. It comes at a price of 30 Rs per wheel for the first fill. Rs 10 [...]
August 14, 2007
Top 10 search keywords which brought you to my blog in last 1 year 1. arvindtm.com2. huttadalli hutta3. mungaru male4. kaviraj profile kannada5. arvindtm6. 1mbps = 1000 mbps7. sarjapura blues band8. sudarshana kriya ebook9. 1000 kbps10. high heels Thanks to Analytics
August 7, 2007
When somebody writes a ‘what-is’ and ‘how-to’ primers I feel much of the text goes unread when there is no illustration. I happened to read one such article in the morning. Web 2.0 primer And thought, let me add my bit to the article by sketching these cuties. Click on the pic to see the [...]
August 4, 2007
Am running a talk-format in office for over a month now. It’s nicked as 10-20-30, invented by Guy Kawasaki. I have tweaked a bit and applied at our office. This is the email message footer which goes out for that talk-invitation.___________________________________________________10-20-30That is for 10 slides, 20 mins and 30 people.Internal Knowledge Sharing Sessions. It’s open [...]
August 2, 2007
Click to see the enlarged image How do you normally prepare ?! Any other tips ?
July 13, 2007
IP addressing and subnetting. Any number of times you read and try to apply, the basics evaporate in no time. Subnetting is little tricky and hence needs working through it to stick in the head. Let me make an attempt to give you some help in grasping the concept. Get this one right. Subnetting is [...]
June 27, 2007
I pulled out a recipe from one of my old collection this evening for the dinner. MavinKayi Chitranna ( Masla Rice out of raw mango…?! ) Had the rice been little fluffy, it would’ve been more delicious. Print the recipe to try out. Translators. Any one around ?!
April 18, 2007
mapquest generates location map if you specify the latitude and longitude values…. Latitude: 12.924 deg N Longitude: 77.669 deg E Our office location is marked with a star Where did I get these accurate values for Latitude and Longitude?!Our Lab BTS is powered with a GPS receiver. This is a better picture if you want [...]
April 14, 2007
Pulling news, astro or some jokes from a service provider on your mobile costs you.You send NEWS to 222 of AirTel and it charges you not lesser than 3 rupees for every update. But you will like this one from http://www.mytoday.com/ . Not a slick one by looks. But there’s enough substance. I am subscribed [...]
July 10, 2006
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February 23, 2006
Am awfully bad at conversions.Dollar to ruppe. Millions to lakhs and crores. Here’s what I have some empiricals which I keep memorising every now and then…$1 million = 4.87 Crores$100 mn = 487 croresInfy is $1 bn company = 4870 crores Hope it helps imagining the worth of figures when they appear in newspapers without [...]
February 22, 2006
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December 18, 2005
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October 11, 2005
Did you know this ? Send an SMS message saying BLOCK to 222 to block all promotional SMSes thrown at you from AirTel. Similarly you can block personal loan,credit card, insuarance and other product offering calls of citibank by calling the customer care and asking them to bar all such calls. These are set to [...]
July 22, 2009
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