Facebook and ur Social life

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That Sweet spot - that’s when you find someone to chat on Facebook and you’ve these really long chats way into the night and speak about this and speak about that. But sadly, your totem stops soon enough and you’re back into the chasm of Facebook lost among countless of profiles till eventually the line bordering Facebook and Social life blurs into nothingness and all your social activity becomes meaningless status updates and virtual pokes.

Automating Yaourt

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Yaourt is an amazing tool - it’s one among the USP of Arch Linux. According to the official yaourt website Yet AnOther User Repository Tool is a community-contributed wrapper for pacman which adds seamless access to the AUR, allowing and automating package compilation and installation from your choice of the thousands of PKGBUILDs in the AUR, in addition to the many thousands of available Arch binary packages. True to the description in the site it provides seamless access to the huge AUR packages and makes installing any program as simple as yaourt -Ss package_name to search the package and then...

Jekyll work flow

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As you might be aware I’m running this blog using an awesome software ( I’m not sure whether I can call that ) called Jekyll. Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. But, it is not this feature set that provides Jekyll’s awesomeness - but it’s set of users. The jekyll user base primarily consists of programming experts and web...

RHCE - The real deal

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I have sat for some very tough tests in my life. Although, I would not say that I cleared them all in flying colors, I’ve atleast never failed in any of the tests in which I wanted to pass. Sometime back, realizing that all my useless knowledge of linux was exactly that useless. I decided that I may as well sit for a certification exam and have at least some gain out of all those hours spent wasted in front of my box. Being someone who runs Openbox on Arch Linux - I prided myself as a somewhat linux expert...

Cyberworm la James Bond

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Great article detailing how a cyberworm was designed to counter the threat that typically a la James Bond would be required to solve.i LINK I loved the way they finished it. Embedded in different section of the code is another common computer language reference, but this one is misspelled. Instead of saying “DEADFOOT,” a term stolen from pilots meaning a failed engine, this one reads “DEADFOO7.” Remember something about this blog is called G33k not GEEK :P Yes, OO7 has returned – as a computer worm. Stuxnet. Shaken, not stirred.

Facebookmail - the next big thing ?

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On November 15, Facebook will unleash Project Titan to challenge Google’s Gmail and other messaging solutions in the crowded market for Web-based e-mail clients. The Webmail client will include personal @facebook.com e-mail addresses for the social network’s 500 million-plus users.Titan will also be integrated with Microsoft’s Office Web Apps suite, allowing Facebook users to create and share Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote documents. This integration would be the evolution of Microsoft Docs. While FBMail will compete with Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and other countless messaging solutions - the main target here is GMail - possibly, the application which...

Generate year using Javascript

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Many times when you write a simple HTML page, at the footer you’ll need to include the year in the copright statement. For eg., Copyright © 2010 Gautham Ponnu Many a time, in an infrequently updated site I often forget to update the year at the footer. This was until I came across this useful code snippet to generate the current year using simple javascript. 1 <script type="text/javascript"> 2 var d = new Date() 3 document.write(d.getFullYear()) 4 </script> So, a typical usage of this piece of code would be like this. 1 <p>Copyright &copy; <script type="text/javascript"> 2 var d =...

Wicked USB slots

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I mean this is wicked. It’s really a brilliant idea. Have USB’s pluggable into the wall. Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. Dead Drops Anonymous file sharing....

Hello world !

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There are really two kinds of blogging I’ve been doing: writing and sharing technical stuff generally desktop customization. However, I soon realized that my limited number of readers were predominantly not interested in any computer-related stuff let alone whatever latest and mightiest conky configuration I had set up. Hence, to cater to my exclusive tech audience I’m starting this new journal of my tech journey G33k G33k is simply a dumb word play on the word Geek. Wiki says, The word geek is a slang term, with different meanings ranging from “a computer expert or enthusiast” to “a carnival performer...

Sensible-v2

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Ever since I started using Linux, I got this desktop tweaking bug - always trying to customize the apps available. It's quite a huge waste of time, but yet it's something I love. So, here's my latest piece of work. Click on the image to get a lightbox-pimped up view I'm fundamentally a minimalism lover. I like all fancy conky configs - but I find that none of them work for me. So, here's my own setup using work done by the community. When I'm doing something, there are a couple of things that I need at my fingertips like...