I like setting up shortcuts to frequently used commands whether I used Windows or Linux. I use the terminal often and create shortcuts to frequently used commands using “alias” feature of BASH. This has saved me considerable time in the past. However, I recently felt that if I could have a helper tool to monitor [...]
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Tagged: bash, linux, productivity, python, script
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- August 28, 2009 – 8:05 am
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- By prashanthellina
The first time I read Hitch-hiker’s guide to the Galaxy, I got bored mid-way and stopped reading. I thought it was one totally pointless non-sensical rambling story. The movie version of it was played recently on TV and I watched from somewhere in the middle. The first character I saw was Marvin!. I got hooked. [...]
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Tagged: funny, h2g2, hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy, marvin, robot
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- January 9, 2008 – 7:31 am
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- By prashanthellina
I was reading the few entries I had written in this blog and felt an urge to restart. And so, here I am. It has been a long break. A lot of things have happened since the last time I blogged. I finished college and got a job in a Tech start-up in Bangalore. Been [...]
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- August 19, 2007 – 3:08 pm
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I went to another short trek yesterday. This time we went to a hill in Guduvancheri near the “Pentecostal mission”. This one was around two kilometers from the main bus-stop of Guduvancheri. We chose this hill for several reasons 1) It is bigger than the one we went to last time 2) It is close [...]
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- June 7, 2004 – 11:44 am
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I went to a small trek yesterday with my friends. We chose a small hill near Potheri village, Kancheepuram district, Tamilnadu, India. This place is very close to my college and to the place I stay at. We started that trek at 4:30 P.M. A problem cropped up at the very start – We were [...]
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- May 30, 2004 – 3:55 pm
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- By prashanthellina
I did a very very stupid thing day before yesterday. My primary partition on which I had Windows installed ran out of space (although I allocated 5GB !) and I had to resize the partition. I used Partition Magic only to find out on rebooting that it screwed up my partition table. I ran scandisk [...]
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- May 26, 2004 – 8:00 am
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- By prashanthellina
There are two things that brought me back to blogging after the initial burst when my enthusiasm lead me to post 1 blog! In anticipation of a gmail account! because I still think it is cool
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- May 23, 2004 – 12:05 pm
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- By prashanthellina