tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299515292024-02-07T04:58:00.072-08:00JAY RAJPUTJay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-62587814959206443622019-02-09T19:31:00.001-08:002019-02-09T19:31:26.579-08:00#5 The Fracking King by James Browning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The novel is a about fracking in USA. The novel protagonist is a high school student who plays scrabble - Winston Crwth. Winston is studying in Hale on Dark scholarship. Hale has given their land for lease to Dark Oil & Gas which uses the same for fracking. The fracking around the school is causing water pollution which is making all the school student and faculty ill. Winston Crwth want to win a scrabble competition, so that she can meet the Governor LaRue. Every scrabble winner gets an opportunity for photo with the Governor. Winston plan is to win the scrabble competition and then meet the Governor to tell him about fracking and lot of other things. The novel is told in first person as Winston Crwth. He goes through his adolescent thought and the book is fun to read.<br />
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I really like the way Author has made effort to make things easy to stick in your head. For example: protagonist tells that his name has Winston as in Winston Churchill and Crwth with w as in truth. There are lot of scrabble words and anagrams in the books which makes it a fun read.</div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-89569076470851331942019-02-03T05:46:00.001-08:002019-02-09T19:23:32.820-08:00#3 Secret letters of the monk who sold his ferrari - Robin Sharma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have never read the famous book - 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari', so I fairly enjoyed this book by Robin Sharma. It is quite possible that both books are pretty much same.<br />
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The Jonathan is having a decent job which he does not like but anyway spends a lot of time in it, due to which his relationship with his wife and son is strained. His mother is worried and asks him to talk to his cousin who has now became a monk. His cousin Julian asks him to collects amulets from around the world. Each amulet contains a mantra/learning of the world.<br />
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I fairly enjoyed half of the novel where you learn by going around the world, understanding cultures and understanding philosophy. But the other half becomes boring with the same stuff repeated again and again.<br />
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Anyway overall a though provoking novel. </div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-74914666084548864242019-02-03T05:00:00.003-08:002019-02-09T19:24:14.508-08:00#4 Fade Out - Kayleen Schaefer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a small novel which can be read in an hour or two. But this is closest to the idea which is in my head this days (what life you want to live). Jarrett Schaefer (Kayleen's brother) is missing some years after having his first movie "Chapter 27" select for the sundance festival. Kayleen is finally able to find his brother in Mexico living a life as a poor person. The reason he moved from USA to Mexico as it was tough to USA to live as a poor person. The story is told from the way Kayleen seeing things without telling the readers why Jarrett made such a decision (or may be I was not able to figure that out). The writer does not try to preach about life or give any insights. She just tells her story. There is no right or wrong (no prejudice). I just love such stories which make you think without preaching.<br />
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The "Chapter 27" trailer can be seen on you tube. It is about John Lennon killer David Chapman. David Chapman had the book 'The Catcher in the Rye' which has only 26 chapter.<br />
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I am still intrigued by what happened to Jarrett Schaefer and why he did what he did? </div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-29741624096771376782019-01-15T08:41:00.002-08:002019-02-09T19:23:03.977-08:00#2 The Immortals of MELUHA - Amish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Second book of 2019. Being a Hindu living in India, I have been to Shiva so many times. But with no formal study on religion, I have no knowledge how and why we worship Shiva. There are so many small information about Shiva. Like he is called Neelkanth. His wife is Parvati. His adobe is Mansarovar and so on. Amish has written this fiction book which is about Shiva and his life. Really a easy read. He linked history and religion in a fiction which was easy and fun book to read. </div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-56506065307265468772019-01-15T08:36:00.000-08:002019-02-09T19:22:32.264-08:00#1 Chai Chai - Biswanath Ghosh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This was my first book of 2019. I accepted the challenge to read 52 books in 52 weeks. I and author (Biswanath Ghosh) have too many similarities. For starters, we both belong to Kanpur and we both are connected to West Bengal (Biswanath being a Bengali and my wife being born in Kolkata). The similarities do not end here. We both love train travel and love to watch the people around us. I have always been fascinated about small city living and this is what this book is all about. The book speaks about the small cities which grew around major train junctions. The junctions on the north are Jhansi, Mughal Sarai, Itarsi. The junctions on the south are Guntakal, Arakkonam, Jolarpettai and Shoranur.<br />
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The book is presented in simple language and makes you aware about India and it's small cities in an interesting way. Author travels by train to multiple places to explore it. He stays there for a day or two, talk to the local and pen down his experiences. He has articulated things in an easy to remember way as well. I was taken back in past remembering the small cities and places there. Author at one time speaks about the snack shop in Mughal Sarai which are attached to the wine shops. I have attended these snack shops multiple times in Ghaziabad. Although, I have stopped drinking alcohol, but I did transported back to my college days.<br />
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Author also told interesting and easy-to-remember facts about these small cities. Like itarsi is a combination of two words - ita (rock) and rasi (rope). Jhansi is famous for Rain Laxmi Bai and Dhyanchand. Some rational on why Mughal Sarai have this Sarai suffix. Jhansi is also close to my heart as one of my good friend belongs to Jhansi and I have been to Jhansi and the polytechnic college there.<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-13309607565167889842016-06-08T16:09:00.001-07:002016-06-08T16:09:30.201-07:00UAN password reset<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To reset your UAN, use this link<br />
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http://59.180.231.60:9091/UANHD/index.jsp</div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-58763081613095493592013-09-07T09:22:00.001-07:002013-09-07T09:22:09.123-07:00tshark diameter example<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I love speed and hate slow. I work in an environment where things are just slow. Bandwidth is slow, processor is slow. Yeah even in this technical world, I find myself slow or may be it is just me. Anyway my hatred for slow things, makes me search for alternatives and so learn more things. I found that wireshark has a textual counterpart. You thought wireshark is not slow. Come to my world and try running it over X windows. Anyway, Google has too much information about the tshark, but the only problem is that it is tough to read that information. Here are my few quick examples to read diameter packet captures. In my world, people do not worry about the disk space and time and use this tcpdump command to capture packets:<br />
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tcpdump -i any -s 0 -w <myFav.pcap><br />
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I still need to figure out a better way but this works for now.<br />
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Once the file is captured, you can view the file with tshark. Here are the tshark commands to view pcap files with diameter dissector (-d). -r is for read and -n for not mapping IPs to hostnames.<br />
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tshark -n -r my.pcap -d "tcp.port=3868, diameter"<br />
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This command with -R can provide view filters (-R). See only packets for tcp port 3868:<br />
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tshark -n -r my.pcap -d "tcp.port=3868,diameter" -R "tcp.port==3868 and diameter.cmd.code==280"<br />
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This command shows the diameter command code, h2h, e2e, flags but does not display the AVPs. For Origin-Host AVP in CER, you can use this command. <br />
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tshark -n -r my.pcap -d "tcp.port=3868,diameter" -R "tcp.port==3868 and diameter.cmd.code==280" -z diameter,avp,257,Origin-Host<br />
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For examples, grep diameter here: http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html</div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-89393766219297700042013-03-31T12:12:00.000-07:002013-03-31T12:12:39.575-07:00West Coast Trip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Description:<br /><br />I made a west coast trip with my wife. The west coast trip covered<br />Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Our trip was splitted into<br />three parts. Part2 was a 6-day tour organized by a travel company<br />where we were part of a bigger group and were guided by our travel<br />guide. Part1 (3-day LV) and Part3 (1- day LA) were self exploration.<br /><br />Chronological order:<br /><br />20121118 (Sun) - Reached LV and checked in hotel. Got an upgrade.<br />20121119 (Mon) - Hotels, Shows and Buffets.<br />20121120 (Tue) - Hotels, Shows and Buffets.<br />20121121 (Wed) - Arrival in Las Vegas (We were already in Las Vegas at Flamingo)<br />20121121 (Wed) - Moved to Startosphere.<br />20121122 (Thu) - Grand Canyon Visit. Eagle Point, Guanna Point.<br />20121123 (Fri) - Moved from LV to LA on the bus.<br />20121124 (Sat) - LA to SanJose<br />20121125 (Sun) - SanJose to SFO, Stanford, Golden Gate, Twin Peaks,<br />20121126 (Mon) - Yosemite, SanJose to LA.<br />20121127 (Tue) - LA, Walk of fame, Wax Museum, Chinese Gruman, Kodak Theatre, Holly wood tour, Holly wood sign.<br />20121127 (Tue) - Evening flight from LA to LV.<br />20121128 (Wed) - Back in RDU.<br /><br />Costs:<br /><br />Tour cost:<br />682 for 2 people + 12 $ tip everyday for 2 people. Tour included hotel stay and commute. <br />Attraction admission fee was not included. Total Cost = 682 + 12 * 6 = 682 + 72 = 754.<br /><br />Plane Tickets:<br />LA - RDU = 340.80 for two people including taxes.<br />RDU - LV = 241.20 for two people including taxes<br />Flamingo Hotel Prices: 100 $ for 3 days. Interestingly they gave us an upgrade as well.<br />LA hotel for a single day (Nov 26) costed us 96 $.<br /><br />Hotel Addresses:<br />LV: Flamingo on the strip<br />LV: Stratosphere on the strip.<br />HolidayInn: SanJose (provided by tour company)<br />Hampton Inn: LA (provided by tour company)<br />LA: Best Western Airport Plaza Inn, 1730 Centinela Avenue, Inglewood, CA 90302<br /><br />LA experience:<br /><br />The hotel we stayed was far away from the walk of the fame but there<br />was a bus. People scared us that it will take too much time with the<br />bus, but we were able to reach walk of fame within an hour. Although<br />we started early in the morning around 8:00 AM. Walk of fame address<br />is "6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028"<br /><br />LA has two major attractions Universal Studios and Walk of fame. Walk<br />of fame is street with things around it. Since I have already been to<br />universals in Orlandao, we opted for walk of fame. We bough the city<br />pass which covered the most and was value for money.<br /><br />Free things to do at walk of fame:<br />* Chiness Gruaman's theatre - this place has hand imprints of hollywood stars like Marlyn Monroe, Arnold and others.<br />* Near to Chinese Grauman's theatre, they have piano stairs which make music when someone walks on them.<br />* There is also a shopping complex which was used as a set for some<br /> movie. Shopping complex has the oscar theatre where the oscar awards<br /> are given. From the shopping theatre, you can also see the hollywood<br /> sign.<br />* There are multiple start signs on the street and you can take a lot of pictures.<br /><br />Things in the city pass:<br />* Madam Tussad's wax museum<br />* Oscar Theatre visit. A person will show you the oscar theatre from inside.<br />* Walking tour of walk of fame and places around and old chinese theatre.<br />* Tour of the LA on the open air jeep. They should us beverly hills, rodeo drive and mansion of hollywood stars.<br /><br />You should buy city pass only if you want to see Madam Tussad's and<br />want to cover everything in a day. If I had more time, exploring<br />beverly hills and rodeo drive on self would be more fun.<br /><br />San Francisco:<br /><br />I love this city. But you how the guided tours are, you just spend 5<br />minutes at a place. If you have time and money, explore on your own.<br />This was my second trip to SFO. The first trip was with bachelor<br />friends and was a self exploration. Self exploration was fun.<br /><br />Our guided tour included these:<br />* Stanford university - saw Rodin "The Burghers of Calais"<br /> Not much here except for Rodin sculptures. The Burghers of Calais is<br /> multiple sculptures of war heros.<br />* Crooked street, fisherman wharf and cable cars<br /> This is a nice place to explore on foot. Ghiraddelli is also near<br /> by. Coit tower is also neary by. We also tried Boudin sour dough<br /> bread which is nice.<br />* Boat tour to alcatraz island and golden gate bridge - nice but like other boat tours.<br /> You can see Golden Gate bridge from the boat. Also saw the alcatraz<br /> island from the boat.<br />* Palace of fine arts - nothing much but nice to click pictures.<br />* Golden Gate bridge - awesome.<br /> You can easily spend 2 hours here.<br />* Saint Mary's Cathederal<br /> This is nice church and they have those big musical instruments made<br /> out of pipes.<br />* Alamo sqare - saw painted ladies.<br /> There is also a wishing tree at the alamo square.<br />* Twin peaks - magnificient view from here.<br />* City Hall - just saw this from outside but was nice.<br /><br />Las Vegas:<br /><br />My wife loved this place than any other places where we have been. The<br />best things about vegas is that if you feel tired you can just go and<br />take rest at your hotel, so make sure you stay at strip. Strip also<br />has a lot of cheap hotels. <br /><br />Free things to do in LasVegas:<br />* Bellagio fountain. <br />* Mirage volcano<br />* TI pirates show<br />* Forum shops has two free shows.<br />* Flamingos at Flamingo.<br />* Hotels to see - all<br />** Wynn<br />** Encore<br />** Bellagio<br />** Caesar Palace<br />** Forum shops. Apple store has free wifi.<br />** Luxor<br />** Flamingo<br />** New York New York<br />** And lot others.<br /><br />More paid things to do in LasVegas<br />* Go on top of Paris Effel tower.<br />* Go to to the stratosphere top. Entry is free if you are staying at the hotel<br />* Cars show. Old vintage car. Not much to see here.<br />* Titanic museum in luxor.<br />* Crazy rides at Stratosphere<br />* New York New York roller coaster.<br /><br />Shows we saw (we bought a 110 $$ coupon using TotalRewards card in<br />which we can watch multiple shows in 48 hours)<br />* Divas<br />* Mac King - magic<br />* Anthony cools - crazy hypnosis show. We liked it.<br />* Jubilee<br />* Juggler show - jeff Civillico.<br /><br />The show pass included the paris and the cars museum.<br /><br />If you have the money watch any Cirque show. We never saw because<br />never had all the money :). But we did heard a lot about them. We<br />will try them next time.<br /><br />Grand Canyon:<br /><br />Grand Canyon is awesome. Our travel guide took us to eagle point and<br />guanna point where we were able to take some breath taking pictures.<br /></div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-60013991933325688962013-03-13T20:25:00.000-07:002013-03-31T10:59:50.635-07:00Adding number to your list<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
See http://scriptogr.am/jayrajput for this blog.</div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-77829790588197336422013-02-09T16:28:00.000-08:002013-02-09T16:44:37.735-08:00Vim: Sorting section titles in a file<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is vim trick to sort section titles in a file. Inspired from a vim book which I read.<br />
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Imagine a input file where the sections needs to be sorted. The content of the section needs to be kept intact.<br />
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Section Z<br />
Item1<br />
Item2<br />
SectionEnd <br />
Section A<br />
Item1<br />
Item2<br />
SectionEnd <br />
Section D<br />
Item1<br />
Item2<br />
SectionEnd<br />
Here is the VIM exscript to do the job:<br />
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" Mark lines between each Section/End block<br />
:g/^Section/,/^End/-1s/$/@@/<br />
" Now join the blocks into one line<br />
:g/^Section/,/^End/j<br />
" Sort each block <br />
:%!sort<br />
" Restore the joined lines to original blocks. <br />
:%s/@@ /^M/g<br />
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Output file after sourcing the exscript:<br />
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Section A<br />
Item1<br />
Item2<br />
End <br />
Section D<br />
Item1<br />
Item2<br />
End<br />
Section Z<br />
Item1<br />
Item2<br />
End<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-26551243812053202962013-02-03T08:39:00.000-08:002013-02-05T18:49:23.466-08:00Elinks pre_format_html using perl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Elinks is a fantastic text based browser. It also provide HTML re-writing. You can see HTM re-writing as your grease monkey script to update the HTML of the page. Elinks supports HTML re-writing using Lua, Ruby and perl.<br />
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To implement HTML re-writing using perl, create a file called hooks.pl under ~/.elinks. You can implement various hooks (see example file or search google for elinks manual and HTML rewriting). I have implemented pre_format_html_hook and here is my code.<br />
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Blogger does not allow me to use angular brackets in my code. You need to make following changes to the code:<br />
*Replace LESSTHANSIGN with actual HTML start tag angular bracket.<br />
*Replace GREATERTHANSIGN with actual HTML end tag angular bracket.<br />
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<pre class="brush: html">sub pre_format_html_hook
{
my $url = shift;
my $html = shift;
if ($url =~ 'google\.com')
{
# User .*? to not use greedy pattern matching.
$html =~ s/LESSTHANSIGNdiv id=.*?gbar.*?\/divGREATERTHANSIGN//;
$html =~ s/LESSTHANSIGNdiv id=.*?modeselector.*?\/divGREATERTHANSIGN//;
$html =~ s/LESSTHANSIGNdivGREATERTHANSIGNLESSTHANSIGNh2 class=\"hd\">Search Options.*?\/divGREATERTHANSIGN//;
}
return $html;
} </pre>
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-46423691204240806692013-01-26T13:09:00.000-08:002013-01-26T13:09:17.321-08:00Elinks Remote Invocation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
elinks can be used to open remote links similar to firefox.<br />
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elinks -remote "openURL(http://freshmeat.net/, new-tab"<br />
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Note how the arguments are not enclosed in double or single quotes. The remote option can also be used for the smart and dumb prefixes provided by elinks.<br />
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elinks -remote "openURL(g elinks man, new-tab" <br />
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The above command will use smart prefix 'g' to search google for "elinks man".<br />
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The elinks instance needs to be already running for the remote option to work.<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-83545740030976220122013-01-19T14:47:00.001-08:002013-01-19T14:47:11.820-08:00Ideal Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
* Shall support text-only browser.<br />
* Capability to dump/store complete site in a single file.<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-75228551527075842092013-01-19T10:10:00.001-08:002013-02-05T18:51:31.982-08:00Tools I use<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
tmux - 2013<br />
elinks - 2013<br />
xmonad - 2013<br />
bugs.n - 2013 </div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-11541098150723860332013-01-14T14:09:00.002-08:002013-01-14T14:09:54.569-08:00Simulating multiple paste buffers with the screen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Multiple paste buffers can be simulates by using screen registers.<br />
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To copy a string to a register use. Here are the command to add content to two registers:<br />
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C-a : register a "reg1content"<br />
C-a : register b "reg2content"<br />
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Now to paste the contents, use this:<br />
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C-a : paste a<br />
C-a : paste b<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-74557577408092586632013-01-14T07:50:00.001-08:002013-01-14T07:50:08.046-08:00Debugging httpd core<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php">https://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/debugging-php-segfault-backtraces-with-gdb.html">http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/debugging-php-segfault-backtraces-with-gdb.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-16228037687316086882013-01-01T06:53:00.001-08:002013-02-13T05:06:00.591-08:00Books I have read<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Year I read</div>
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Book Name, Author</div>
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Comments</div>
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2012</div>
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A walk to remember, Nicholas Sparks</div>
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2012</div>
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Thunderhead, Preston and Child</div>
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2012</div>
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Devil's Teardrop, Jeffrey Deaver</div>
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2012</div>
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Lake view, Stacey Campbell</div>
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2013</div>
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Mrs. Pollifax and Golden Triangle, Dorothy Gilman</div>
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-3914262113863504822012-11-08T18:30:00.000-08:002012-11-08T18:31:31.918-08:00Auto bookmark using greasemonkey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ever thought of automatically bookmarking URLs? If you know greasemonkey like me, you would have thought that is should be super easy using javascript and someone would have already done it. But I did not found anyone on the internet which has created this auto-bookmarking but indeed it was too easy and that might be one of the reasons why no one has done it :). Anyway I did it as I like doing easy things.<br />
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Why do you need to automatically bookmarks URLS?<br />
If you are working as a software and your lab has tons of servers which host Apache and you need to access them every time using some crazy ip address which you do not remember. But interestingly the name of the webserver is on the webpage (which I was able to access using javascript document.getElementById)<br />
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You can find the scripts at <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/152043">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/152043</a><br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-648984392242273792012-11-05T16:04:00.001-08:002012-11-05T17:51:07.541-08:00Whole grains, Carbohydrate - Dietitian Diary - 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I meet my dietitian for the second time. My primary goal for meeting the dietitian was to make diet changes for my hypertension and hypertriglyceridemia.<br />
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For hypertension, suggestion is to reduce the salt. For hypertriglycerdemia, suggestion is to reduce carbohydrates.<br />
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Today my dietitian talked about 1. Whole Grains and 2. Carbohydrates.<br />
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Whole Grains contains barn, germ and endosperm. Barn and germ are the healthy things and endosperm is the unhealthy. Enriched grain is the one which contains only endosperm.<br />
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Whole Grains example are Oat, Brown Rice<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-88807793452192732892012-11-04T13:58:00.000-08:002012-11-04T13:58:28.228-08:00What is in your spring mattress?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ever wondered what is in your spring mattress. I think I made a mistake buying a spring mattress (my personal decision). I wanted to buy a mattress for 200 $$ and was able to find a 8 inches spring mattress which was easily transportable. But I could have got a foam mattress for 200 $$ although less inches. But a 4 inches will work as well as 8 inches if you are using the wooden base. Although one of my friend is using the foam mattress without any base and he is doing good. Anyway back to post topic of what is inside your spring mattress, just spring, but you never think how bad and uncomfortable they will be until and unless you really see them. When you see them it is clear that your body skeleton can never be straight on these springs. When I was buying the spring mattress I was not aware how the internal looks like. So I am putting the pictures of internals of my spring mattress for benefit of others:<br />
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This is the springs inside the bed..this is expected for the spring bed.<br />
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Here is how the bed looks like without the top bed foam (or whatever it is called). There are some 600 springs. This was the new iCoil technology as told by the mattress seller. But I am pretty sure you cannot keep your body skeleton straight on these 600 springs. I will prefer to buy the foam mattress. </div>
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After ripping the bed I am able to use the foam top on the wooden frame I have and it works great and better than the spring mattress.</div>
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-2661184917296114912012-11-04T10:25:00.000-08:002012-11-04T10:25:21.445-08:00My "Art Institute of Chicago" Visit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Art Institute of Chicago" is really huge. I was just able to spend near to an hour to visit this place. But you can easily spend and enjoy looking at the place for an hours even if you do not understand anything about paintings and sculptures. The institute gives you a flyer which has "What to see in an Hour" which is overwhelming but doable in a hour. Jut keep following the flyer. You might end of taking a little more than a hour. May be 1 hour 15 minutes.<br />
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This is what I did. In addition to flyer suggestion, I also went and saw the picture of Swami Vivekananda as Chicago is the place where Vivekananda gave his famous speech introducing Hindu religion to the world.<br />
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* Swami Vivekananda. He introduced Hinduisum to the world in Chicago<br />
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* George Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884. Seurat took 2 years to paint this picture. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Seurat contrasted miniature dots of colors that, through optical unification, form a single hue in the viewer's eye. Try to see the colors in the painting.</span><br />
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* Mask weared during funeral by elite members of the society.<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-33153461468102021932012-11-04T09:41:00.001-08:002012-11-04T09:41:23.008-08:00My "Field Museum" Visit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Field Museum at Chicago is massive and you can easily spend a day exploring it. I visited Chicago and was able to spend 2 hours exploring it. This is what I did:<br />
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* Enjoyed the underground adventure where they show what is happening inside the soil.<br />
* Enjoyed the ancient Egypt exhibition where they showed the mummies and everything Egypt. There is also an window inside Egypt exhibition where they showed the heart weighing ceremony. Ancient Egyptian believed that after death you travel to an afterlife where you lived upto eternity. But you were allowed to enter the afterlife only if your heart was lighter than a feather. If you heart was heavier than Ammut (Egyptian god with crocodile face) will eat you up. So Egyptian did all good things to keep their heart light..<br />
* After that we clicked photo in front of Sue. Largest preserved T-rex.<br />
* After that few more exhibitions. We were actually trying to find the exit :). Field museum is huge, did not I told you that.</div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-68415273610204878252012-11-04T07:51:00.000-08:002012-11-04T07:51:36.315-08:00My "Adler Planetarium" Experience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Adler Planetarium is located in Museum Campus in Chicago. I visited Adler Planetarium and this is what I did:<br />
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* After food, we went for a movie (movie is what planetarium is all about). We saw "Welcome to Universe" which shows how the earth and our galaxy looks like when viewed from space. The show kept us taking to different distances in space. How the earth looked like from a satellite, from moon, from far away in Milkyway and from far far away in space (yeah you will go other galaxies). It is amazing to think that how small we look from space. As said by Apollo 8 and 13 astronaut Jim Lovell "The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb", you will see the same happening in the movie and make you feel how insignificant we and our problems are. <br />
* We went to the Atwood experience which was amazing. Atwood is the oldest Chicago planetarium. In short, they put you in an empty and dark globe from where you can see the stars and different constellations. It was amazing to know about the constellations and know about their Greek mythology. The brightest star is the Sirius. The small dipper and big dipper are the easiest one to guess. I will say to learn a little bit about the constellations before you go for your Atwood experience.<br />
* We also took pictures of Jim Lovell statue covering the earth with his thumb which was fun.<br />
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Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-61281080330337113342012-11-04T06:24:00.000-08:002012-11-04T06:50:30.912-08:00My "Shedd Aquarium" Experience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I went to visit Chicago and got a chance to visit "Shedd Aquarium". It was huge and we did not had much time. We spent near to 3 hours there. But it was amazing. The floor map which they gave us was little confusing as there are different levels and the map does not indicate that. If you are smart you will figure that out fast but if you dumb like me you will figure it out<br />
late.<br />
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This is what I did:<br />
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* Abbott Oceanarium (Rice Auditorium) has Aquatic shows. So find about them online and make sure you attend that. Organize your trip around that. It happens at specific times. Rice Auditorium in built on Michigan Lake so from Rice Auditorium you can see Michigan lake and Adler Planetarium.<br />
* Phelps Auditorium has a 4-D show which was also nice but if you have seen 4-D shows before , the experience will be OK. 4-D shows are getting boring now.<br />
* Jellies exhibit is a must. Jellies are fascinating.<br />
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* Wild reef has fishes in a big aquarium which is surrounding you from front and top. No bottom and back side floating fish.<br />
* Pritzker Caribbean Reef is also a big cylindrical aquarium but it is too crowded.There are always people standing around it and you can smell fish.<br />
* Frogs near "Pritzker Carriben Reef" is a must. The frogs are so small that you can barely see them. Some of them are extinct or near-to-extinct species and are fascinating.<br />
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I was short of time so was not able to spend time on the "Amazon Rising", "Islands and Lakes" and "Rivers" exhibit and other small exhibits around "Pritzker Caribbean Reef". I would have also liked to take a stroll on the North Terrace and see the "Michigan Lake" but I wonder how to enter back into the aquarium once you go into the North Terrace.<br />
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We saw beluga whales, star fish, sea otter, penguins, fishes of all types, sharks, sea horse, frogs and lot of other sea animals.</div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29951529.post-73040145811310492892012-11-04T05:41:00.002-08:002012-11-04T05:42:10.323-08:00My "Go Chicago Card" experience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When I bought "Go Chicago Card" before my vacations I thoughts that I got a loot. So many attractions in just 108 dollars was a deal. But now when I am done with my vacations, I can better compare the usage with the real deal. I bought a 3-day Chicago card for 108 dollars. I was travelling with my wife so for two person it costed 215.98. The card was valid for 3-days and I saw these in three days:<br />
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First Day:<br />
* Skyline Architecture Tour [ Must]<br />
* John Hancock Observatory [Must]<br />
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Second Day:<br />
* Field Museum [ Must but needs more time]<br />
* Shedd Aquarium [Must but needs more time]<br />
* Adler Planetarium [Depends on you. For me it was Must but for others it was So-So]<br />
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Third Day:<br />
* Willis Tower [Must]<br />
* Grayline North Side Tour [So, So]<br />
* Art Institute of Chicago[ Must but needs more time]<br />
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"Go Chicago Card 3-day" is great if you want to cover all the destination but do not have time. If you want to cover some, have time , and want to save money you are better off using "Chicago CityPass". And if you have both time and money, you can try "Go Chicago Card 5-day or 7-day".<br />
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Also realize that some of these attractions like Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium are free at some specific day for people living in Chicago. So just use the internet find what days are free.</div>
Jay Rajputhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956219045828397977noreply@blogger.com0