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.
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 )
Nittians.com !
This is the poster the designers had come up with for popularizing nittians.com in college ! I just love it ! Right now getting this poster in various parts of the college ! Soon we can expect more bloggers joining here
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
Brain F**k, White Space and Intercal
First of all : i am not swearin at you. For People who dont know these are the names of programming languages meant to toughen a programmer's life.
Brain F**k : This is world's most horribly smallest programming language.
Its compiler can just understand 8 symbols :- + - . , [ ] Thats all.
all your logic has to be converted to this. Search Wikipedia for more about this abnormally fast language. More whoopier is the size of the compiler: just 16kb !!!
And INTERCAL - The full name of the compiler is "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym", which is, for obvious reasons, abbreviated "INTERCAL".
I mean how vetti people can be to create a programming lanugage just for the sake of it, when it has no advantage than any other programming language !!!(no offense)
So Next time if you hear u think some one is swearing ,be careful,actually he/she may be mentioning a programming language's name
PS : i am not giving the exact links because i dont want my blog to be blocked from my college, but u can get them very easily by googling them!!!
My Longest Gmail chat ever :)
I knew doing a project means, lot of surfing, chatting and free time and some last minute work. (Though i really have a lot of work to do in my project,) i do really chat a lot. and yesterday night i had this google chat with hari for 1100+ lines.
So now who is next ????
check that out here..