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Miyao

JaguarNac — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:44:20 +0000

Kinda running outta titles here, just used the one word that I like and often use. I’m happy. One month here in the new place and I can say that I’m getting used to it quite well. It’s just a matter of time when I get back to my everyday development mood and start learning fun stuff off the internet.

Apart from the office timings, I’ve been concentrating upon keeping myself entertained just so that I could get along with this new little space of mine and keep the boredom and loneliness away from myself. Entertaining yourself is not all that hard here if you have a good Internet connection and Netflix Instant Streaming Disk. So far I completed watching Dexter: Season 1, Heroes: Season 1-3 (running season 4), cought up on a couple of Hindi movies online that I could not watch back home, got a blu-ray for “9”, an awesome animation. OH the fun !

I could not help but notice a tiny sting of a feeling that I am missing “some” fun that I totally like, but am not getting so far over here. For one, I have zero access to kitten furriness here. So, no instant happy mix. Second, I still cant get myself in front of a computer, mashing away the keyboard to learn something new, try something different and enjoy that difference !

For the time being, I’m gonna allow the entertainment continue. After 4th season of Heroes, I’ll move onto the Legend of Seeker. Dexter season II after that. Till who knows when.

one thing I’d like to quote here and is worth repeating.

“cats are soft, meow meow”

~JaguarNac

for a Change

JaguarNac — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:27:03 +0000

A new and exciting change is coming Its exciting enough for me, dunno about others but still, I’ll keep it secret for a few more days.
The new theme, is the change I’m talking about today. I’ve been exploring several themes today and was finally able to settle for this “Amazing 3.0 by Bingo – Web Design “, a neat and attractive theme that brings the recent activities on the blog to immediate attention. After seeing so many themes today, the long buried itch of trying to create my own theme for Wordpress is kicking back in. I tried doing that a few years ago, and had developed a neat no-images theme using only borders, padding, margins and backgrounds. That theme went down with my windows crash, taking down my overall enthusiasm of creating themes for Wordpress. Now it seems the itch is trying to return again.
The change I want to keep secret should keep me off from it for some more time. But after that… you never know

~JaguarNac

Google Friend Connect

JaguarNac — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:01:02 +0000

Did some changes around the blog yesterday, if all has gone well, there should hardly be any visible difference except the google friend connect sign-in button on the left sidebar and friend connect bar in the footer.

You can now follow this website, log-in, write comments and share the site with friends using a Google account, Yahoo Account, a netlog account or any Open ID account of your choice (preferably, your own account). Try it, comment with it, and if you like any post on the blog, don’t hesitate to share it. I wont mind

~JaguarNac

Diwali !!!

JaguarNac — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:34:47 +0000

Happy Diwali Everybody !
Here are a few images that I’d like to share

40 Mistakes Men Make

JaguarNac — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:16:04 +0000

This, has got to be one of the best links on the Internet that I’ve came across so far !!!

http://www.funnyheck.com/40mistakes.html

My Blog sux, and why !

JaguarNac — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:19:07 +0000

It’s been almost two years since I’m writing things on the blog (i guess)… I started it as a learning experience, to get to know what blogging is, how it feels and to learn how people design their blogs. To me, being a web designer-developer, it seemed the right thing to do. So, I did it and felt very good doing it. It was “Fun”. However, since last few months, when I look at my blogging frequency and content, things don’t look right. It’s as if I’ve lost the sheer motivation that drove me to write any blatant stuff on this blog in the first place.

The reason behind this is probably because I wanted to make it better, and didn’t quite realize the correct path to achieve it. It’s every bloggers dream to get more viewers, readers to their blog. To establish a “communicative” relation to the society through their blog in their very own way. I am not an exception. I wanted more viewers, so, I thought I should do some study around it, read some good articles about blogging and try to improve myself a bit. So, I did…

Articles, people around the web and probably everyone else who knows blogging emphasize on content quality. To create quality content, one should actually try to identify the type of content that the blog is supposed to serve. This is where I fell. It was a hands down pants up failure. The blog had(and still has) a lot of random stuff such as cat pictures, images of a couple of computer keyboards, some more cats, my ramblings and mumblings about the movies that I liked or disliked and some of computer, flex and programming stuff as well… But, when I tried to categorize my blog, i just ended up confusing myself terribly. Often happened so, that whenever I thought of posting something on the blog, I restricted myself thinking whether it’d suit the flavor that I want my blog to belong to. Most of the times, the thoughts were ended as discarded drafts.

Now that I think of it, I never really wanted my blog to belong to a particular flavor. I wanted it to reflect a bit of myself from on the web. I wanted it to be a place to store my late night randomness, to dump my offline brainstorms, experiments, parties, fun events etc…. (and to show furry cat pictures). From this moment onwards (actually a few moments before this moment, and a probably a few more moments before ‘this’ particular moment) I have decided to not to restrict myself from posting any(ducking?)thing on the blog.

I want my old fun back !!!

says,

~Nac

My technical meditation theory

JaguarNac — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:46:50 +0000

Recently, a post on a community forum triggered my stream of thoughts on this subject. I’m now sharing them here on my blog.

Meditation ! It’s all about the mind. in technical terms, it is a process of:

building a parser to parse yourself
which further allows you to interpret the language of your own mind (probably the language of the universe)
the interpreter
- of which, the output is plain and pure knowledge about self and the surroundings.
- which has efficient algorithms for garbage collection for collecting the spam of thoughts discarded by the parser
- which may support threading, but explicit multi-tasking support is avoided as that has potency to produce further garbage thoughts.
- which is VERY VERY platform specific… you may open the process, but the source, was, is and will always be, with you !
the process
- is incremental ( the sit, do-it, improve yourself cycle )
- requires continuous integration (implement the knowledge that you learn about yourself, the universe and everything, continuously. preferably before you sit for the next cycle…)

May the Force be with you!

~JaguarNac

(P.S. : I Dont meditate. I just think…)

Plugged In, Not Charging

JaguarNac — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:52:32 +0000

I was bugged by this weird battery charging problem with my HP Pavilion Laptop for a past months. I started to notice this a few months back, when the power meter in the system tray did not show any movement whatsoever, even when plugged in and the battery was not 100% charged. In the earlier days of this problem, battery charging process used to get stuck somewhere around 85-90%. Rollover bubble on Vista’s Power Meter System Tray Icon used to say Plugged In, Not Charging…
A few days later, this percentage dropped further below to around 45-50%. Battery would simply refuse to start charging beyond that.
At this point, I started looking around net for some serious solutions for this problem and started trying them out.
Most of the results pointed to potential battery/charger problems, some suggested that it may be the problem with sockets or connectors. I even tried the trick of putting the battery in deep freez for some time, to cool it off. Though the freeze trick did some good, it still didnt allow my battery to charge all 100%
So for another month or so, I stuck with battery that would charge around anywhere between 50-70%. disconnecting the charger and plugging it back in used to give a charge of another percent or so, but even that trick didn’t always work and seemed to be very stupid thing to do repeatedly :p I kept going on with it till finally, a few days ago, the battery charging stopped around 24%. Which is when I decided to take my precious lappy to the people from whom I bought it.
The guys suggested me to try the following, before going further with a new battery and/or charger.

the process:

Start the laptop, enter the bios settings.
Put the plug in, start charging the laptop, until the “charging” indicator goes off.
once that goes off, disconnect the laptop from the charger and let it drain itself off completely.
once it’s drained, put the charger pin back in and start the machine
again, enter bios settings and wait
wait till the charging indicator led goes off again.
repeat this charge-discharge process a couple of times more if you wish
then restart and try booting into windows, see if the battery is fully charged or not. (it not, i guess, repeat the process , or go back to the lappy people….. this worked fine for me at the first time )

I also tried draining it down to around 87% and charging it back to 100% with success.
I’m happy with the result, thus, thought I should post it online
I’ll wait for a couple of days more and add a comment stating whether the problem reappears or not.

~Nac

Techie Sunday

JaguarNac — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:14:00 +0000

It feels good, really good to spend a day with some fun stuff in hand… and even more when you end it with the stuff done to your expectations. I wanted to set-up SVN over Apache2.2 and configure Mantis bug tracking system to send mail from windows using gmail.

started in the morning, faced problems in the afternoon, reached internet, problems gone by evening

if you are planning any of the above thingies, here are some links :

try these, if mantis mail doesnt work
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=8369

for apache and SVN,
BEFORE YOU START, read the Subversion Documentation… saves a lot of time
check your apache version and make sure you have valid svn and authz-svn modules for your version of Apache.
SVN win32 binaries for apache2.2 can be found here

with these modules, and documented steps, all should work well

that’s about it for now, these two links…
i’m just glad to break the blog silence with a non-nagging and self-complaining post [:)]

adios
~JaguarNac~

PGDCA Finals Over !!!

JaguarNac — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:28:02 +0000

PGDCA exams got over yesterday, finally giving me a long desired feeling of relief, and some time to place some text on this tiny little blog of mine… I’ve been pursuing this PGDCA course for 2 years from IndSearch, Pune and got to learn some decent stuff as a part of its syllabus.

I wanted to post something on the blog for last two days, but apparently, there was something wrong with blog settings which did not allow me to make any post before doing a fresh wordpress install !!

I sincerely hope to get some time to write some good posts here and to try out some new stuff on JaguarNac.com

~Nac