Lolcat from Facebook
I use elinks most of the times (Mostly along with Firefox). Elinks is real good as in speed and coolness. Even facebook thinks elinks is damn cool 
. Check out the screen shot below, which shows what happened when I tried to open facebook in elinks.
Improve your blog audience.
Though I don't write blog to be followed, It will be happy for me to know that many people are following. So out of boredom (once again ) googled for sometime to improve my blog hits and did the following steps.
1. Install All in one SEO plugin for wordpress. I am not sure what this does but just followed what the wordpress codex site had suggested.
2. In my wordpress Dashboard, Settings->Writing added the following url's to the update services coloumn list.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2/
3. Went to Pingomatic site and selected the list of sites that should ping my blog site.
And it worked. My blog hits raised by a very nice number inspite of me posting nothing. If you have found your niche and already there are lot of followers I guess you can increase your ratings this way.
Streaming from Amritapuri
Our team, LRSL ( named so after Last Row of Sun Lab , sort of a cult back in college) consisting of Abilash , Natraj and myself qualified for ACM ICPC Amritapuri regionals round. Its on 6th and here we are at Amrita Kerala Campus. The place is so wonderful and the hospitality of this place is so stunning. The food, hostel and everything else are too good. The Organisers have also planned for trip around to the local beach house and so on. So three days filled with coding, superb food, fun at the beach and superb people around, What better way could I have started the Holidays with 
PS: Probably Life is a roller coaster ride, One day you are at the bottom and the other day you are at the top 
Moving to suren.in
Have got my own domain suren.in. Thanks to taggy for getting me the domain as well as hosting my site
PS: Will soon move the site to Django, until then its wordpress reloaded
Buggy Gmail ???
I dunno how this can happen though
Any Explanations ??? Surely the image is not edited one !
The command liner !
Probably one of the features that amazes me in Linux are the power and cuteness of the command line applications ! Right now but for watching videos, working with images , I have found ways to do stuff entirely on the terminal. Whats better ?? Its fast - really fast and completly productive. Let me brief few of my recent infatuations in command line apps.
* Every wonder how fast your browser can be in Elinks ??? No pop ups, no images, but absoultely cool plain test views,option to see images using eog , tabbed browsing, history, bookmarks, history : everything one might need in a modern day browser. It doesnt crash , doesn't require extra plugins for working. Actually above anything else its the speed of browsing is what that beats me ! Too good. Check my gmail window in elinks
* Okay , One thing Elinks might not have is the chat feature. But there is a better client than that. Finch : Welcome to the command line Pidgin. If you already new Pidgin, then Finch is the exact ditto for the shell and If you didn't know about Pidgin, u are missing something With Finch u can GTalk , AIM chat , yahoo , IRC , jabber talk and lots more. Once again the simplicity and speed beats any other application.
* And for everything there is Emacs plus shell combination. So the only thing I need the GUI is for watching videos and similar stuff where GUI is not a luxury but plain necessity.
* Of course I am still on the learning curve for Emacs and so sometimes when going gets tough I use Gedit. Now something great about gedit is that one can extend it in large ways to suit one's need. With a good GTKSourceview color scheme and font selection , coding can be a wonderful experience. (Gedit doesn't fit in command line tools, but sometimes its as much helpful )
I accept GUI has a friendly effect, simplicity of use. But what me miss is that after a few tries the command liners are simpler to use , more productive and damn cool , (particularly when you are showing off )
I am in <3
I spent all my time with her nowadays apart from my classes ! Everybody is in awe seeing her ! My friends think we are made for each other . Infact i feel like I have changed her for in these three days a lot ! I think even she likes me very much ! No problems so far as I used to have with others, like everything worked out of the box. Its like the best thing ever happened to me ! I have waited long for this moment !
Now that she is with me I can do wonders !! I cant just believe its just three days we have been together !
Want to see her ??? click here
She is a beauty! isn't she ???
Dial up in Ubuntu 7.10 – Gutsy Gibbon
WOW ! ! Dial up is working in linux FOR me ! Well this might not be news for many , but yeah its a big one for me ! Without this i had been disconnected for more than one semester hols .
What did i do for making the dial-up work ??
Simple - Installed Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon ran wvdial - the gnome PPP dialer! it worked just out of the box ! All i had to know was to do was to add
my user name and password for the dial up connection ! sweet isn't it ??
1. sudo wvdialconf
this generated a wvdial configuration file for connecting to net using ur modem
2. sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf
change the username, password and dial up number in that file of my ISP .
3. sudo wvdial
it throws a lot of garbage and then finally obtains few DNS & IP addresses!
Then u can use firefox or any other application to connect to net ! thats all
Now after this , i also installed a gnome application called PPP dialer , which is a GUI for wvdial.
Just a day has passed since i came back home . Already two big things happened ! Hope hols have lots more for me
PS : the other thing is OGRE, which will be in another blog
GNU/Linux Stickers :)
These are two awesome GNU/Linux free stickers collections ! They are just so cute and nice. I am going to get a laptop just to paste them only
and the actual site i got it from is this
Nice fonts in Linux
How to add nice cool, clean fonts in Linux!! its so simple !! Get all the true type fonts from net (or better take it from the fonts folder from your windows ) and copy them to /usr/share/fonts/default probably with a prefix so that you can remove them later in case of a need. Thats all !! Now just use open office , all the fonts you copied are right there !!
Found this when I did this poster for MGL
