tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275878222012-02-17T01:23:16.592+05:30This is the place where I occasionally scribble on everything which affects my life or on something which interests me. Postings are mostly random, not specific to any particular topic or ideology.Sahidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119211840741413292noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27587822.post-67113768609119144382009-07-08T12:52:00.007+05:302009-07-10T16:25:42.375+05:30

There is a zip file download button in our application for sometime. Recently to make the browsers identify the file, we set the content type as "application/zip". Which is correct according to the standard[1]. But we found that the file downloaded with IE seem to be corrupted. While trying to investigate the issue, we were absolutely clueless on how to go about this problem. FF and some download

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This is how I configured my home LAN with one desktop and one laptop. Before listing the exact steps let me brief the background. The desktop runs on CentOS and acts as the gateway for the LAN machines. Main difficulty was implementing the NAT so that I could access Internet from my Laptop. Looking at the tldp documentation, I thought it would be fairly easy to implement ip masquerading using

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Recently I had a need to commit some local uncommitted change of a branch into another branch. I was little skeptical that I might loose all the local changes and redo them, manually, again in the other branch. Some soul searching in eclipse help document, revealed that I can do such things using "Team -> Switch to another branch or version". It uses sticky tags to move the uncommitted changes

Sahidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15119211840741413292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27587822.post-79990945471754685102008-12-01T21:19:00.005+05:302008-12-04T22:03:54.451+05:30

While searching for some job scheduler tool, I came across this Open Source tool, called, Quartz. Most importantly my requirement was to be able to use it from inside an application server like JBoss. After reading some tutorials, I gave it a go. Let me just brief my experience here.Quick IntroFundamental entities with Quartz or with any other job schedulers are tasks and triggers invoking them.

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Wednesday I came back late after attending one of my friends marriage party. I switched on the TV for couple of minutes before going to bed perhaps only to discover that there had been another terrorist attack in Mumbai. Since then I feel extremely disturbed and helpless. And, being a Muslim myself, I live in this peculiar mental state of multi-directional feeling of insecurity.Tonight I was

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It has been more than a month I came back from my first ever trekking experience. Last month me and my brother teamed up with 4 of my friends for this trip. Being first ever trek for most of us, we were really excited for this. Perhaps being overenthusiastic, I purchased one 65L rucksack also from UBAC and a pretty good hiking boot from Woodlands. But at the end, I think everything paid off.We

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While reading this cheat sheet, I found a new stopwatch tool today. From your shell, you just run `time cat` to start the stopwatch. Once you are done, stop the clock by CTRL-D. Maybe it is not that useful, but I find it cool! It is geeky!

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This post is about Head First JSP Servlet book. This is not a review, just my experience.Recently I felt the urge to learn some jsp/servlet. Though I have worked on jsps and servlets for quite a few months, but I never knew why I wrote any particular jsp code. If something didn't work, I'd google and find a work around and copy the code snippet. And, as long as it worked, I felt ok, my boss felt

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I am using Linux seriously for last four years. One of the things I wanted to do on linux from the very beginning is to read my favourite bengali daily Anandabazar Patrika. I tried a lot, but my all efforts went in vein vain. People told me that you can not read Anandabazar on linux due to some font issues :(. But recently with help from Kolkata-Lug I got a work around by which I can read

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Few days back I dreamt of watching men in blue marching victory lap in WC final. But after Lankan riots, I dare to stick to my dream. Like loads of poor Indians, today I was also praying for Bermuda thrashing Bangladesh. But they are limping at 45 for 4 in a rainy ODI. Thing is WC is over for India this time. I curse myself for purchasing a tv only to see this to happen.In spite of having so many

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Are you wondering, how I got the map in my post? If so, the mystery reveals here.

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For last few days, my hard disk was not in good health. I thought warranty is already over. I didn't know that now Seagate has an extended warranty of 5 years! They have a nice warranty checker in their site. There I saw my warranty exists till July of too far 2010! So happily I took my disk to Seagate Service Centre, Chennai. I was quite amazed with their service. They didn't even ask me a

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World cup has started finally with all it's excitement. India is fighting hard to get into super8s. Ireland has made the critics swallowing their insults for minnows. Bangladesh is on high in their new found out-of-minnowhood status. Pakistan is already out of the blue, which turned out to be too much for Bob Woolmar, a shocking loss to this once-in-four year extravaganza.It hasn't started as

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Few months back I thought of adding an article on my school in wikipedia. For some time I was thinking of writing on this experience. This post is not exactly a how-to-write-a-wikipedia-article, rather it's to tell what I learnt writing a wikipedia article.Initially I digged hard and got an article on www on my school. I read and liked it. I started writing the article based on it. Later that

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I am blogging after almost few months. I like Blogger's this out-of-beta new interface more than the previuos one. Some of the things which I have noticed: One single signon with other google accounts: I used to forget my Blogger user id. Today I was surprised to see my blogger account getting opened without logging in. Then I found this is because I had already logged in GMail from FF.

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I want to start blogging again. Hope to be more regular this time..

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Seeing the name Infosys in the headline in my FF live bookmarks, I wanted to read the story. When I visited ET site, the ad (I have marked the same in screenshot) placed just top of the article drew my attention than the article itself. I think If you ignore the real headline, the pictures and DON dvd ad gel really well. Not sure if it was conscious effort or just happened.

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It was Eid today! Though I am not really proud of the way I practice my religion, but Eid remains one of my rare favourite occasion. It just makes me feel happy. Mostly because it marks the end of ramzan! And there is this regular yearly excitement on the night before Eid, Moon playing hide-n-seek. Though it has happened many a times for me, but spending this day as a stranger in strangers' place

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Two days back appscale has been featured in startups.in. Though I'm not very sure how significant it means to be featured in such a site. But being appscale's first such publicity, it has certainly created a bit of excitement to me.

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In general before trashing the spam mails I waste some of my time looking at those! Few days back I got this rather different kind of spam. Perhaps the spammer had picked sentences randomly from various articles. And at the end it resulted in a total non-sense. Being a great fan of Sukumar Ray, I have some fascination for non-sense world. I am not sure whether the spammer tried to show his

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So me back in daily life of programming, software, internet! Two weeks of leave went more quickly than I would have thought. To my wonder I was able to make my desperate attempt of not going nowhere near to this web-world a success. I am amused how I restrained myself from not visiting any cyber cafe these days. I was literally doing nothing (if you don't count meeting your family, relatives,

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For last few days I am hooked up in the classical Programming Pearls. It's an amazing read. The author makes you feel programming so easy. Just now I have finished column 7 titled as The Back of the Envelope. After learning about various back of the envelope techniques given by the author I was reminded some of my estimations, where it reflected my sheer intelligence, really! After some

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Today was a bad day for me. I got a call from one of my childhood friend. Not from him actually, but from his mobile. Strangely the caller was a police from our local police station inquiring some details. He had been shot to death yesterday night while illegally supplying cattles to neghourhood country, Bangladesh! No doubt, he was doing crime. But I feel sad for this whole incidence. Few days

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Last Monday I completed my first year of my employment. My boss asked me how did it all go? How much you enjoyed the work, if you leave the money part? I replied I enjoyed 40% of my work. So what about rest 60%? Well, those were all just work, neither fun nor I enjoyed. That made me thinking why it was not all fun doing coding? My reasoning is you don't code always, you get to do other things

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Just now I've read this article [Stanford Magazine] on Don Knuth. And it makes me feeling guilty. If you are aware of my previous post, there I was trying to say why Programming is fun. And no where I didn't even mention about the great Prophet. Oh! God of Computer Science please forgive me.If you didn't read that article read it, it gives some more insight why Computer Programming is an art

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This is a topic very close to my heart indeed. Let me try to find out why i like programming..First of all programming gives me money. Right now I'm working as a S/W developer in a start-up called appscale in Chennai. Though it doesn't pay me like some IT giants pay to its employees, but I'm more than happy with my pay-package. I still remember the day when I first received my pay-check from my

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So here I too join the great culture of Blogging. I don't exactly remember firsttime when I came to know about this blog concept. I never was too much techie or web-whiz kinda person. But after starting my carrer as a S/W Engg (i call it enjanoar, you should pronounce that in bengali to get the pun) from June last year, slowly i got addicted with great idea of Web 2.o. Nowadays i just can't

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