especially for those who are troubled by the fact that Mahabaleshwar
is increasingly and uncontrollably becoming too commercial, don’t miss
this trail called tiger path (2.25kms, Bombay Point to Polo Ground).
it is virgin jungle, but has the bare necessity one would want there,
a clearly marked trail and milestones at the right places to indicate
the direction to take. (…)
As a child i used to curiously observe the rhythm with which my Dad used to press the pedals (even before i knew they were called accelerator, brakes and clutch) while he was driving. Looking back, that experience of sitting next to the drivers’ seat taught me more about the use of those pedals, hand-to-eye co-ordination and judgement, than what i learnt when i actually sat on one.
This is a letter I had written for Swaroopi’s (my sister) friend, when she lost her father. Grief-stricken Vaishali was obviously not up for exams starting next day.
What if her father wrote her a letter from eternity, and comforted her by assuring that he was at peace and not lost in oblivion?
So our attempt to condole her took this form:
Its been a well known issue that the facebook uploader fails miserably
in ubuntu, and hence these packages rock!
first i installed phatch
$ sudo apt-get install phatch
next, f-spot
$ sudo apt-get install f-spot
though i know that f-spot allows one to batch update photos,
i preferred the intuitive and simple interface of phatch for doing so.
i used f-spot’s Facebook upload plugin (which is deactivated by default) to upload to Facebook.
the f-spot plugin can be activated from Edit > Manage Extensions and used from File > Export > Facebook.
happy photo uploading!
here’s what lspci tells me about my on-board graphics card and the xrandr (primitive command line interface to RandR extension) i executed to get my extended desktop on:
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --rotate normal --output VGA1 --auto --rotate left --left-of LVDS1
after endless attempts to get this working from the Display Settings (and then realizing that these options don’t exist in there) Rajat helped me get this working.
If you are doing a deployment like: JBOSS_HOME/server/[config]/deploy/app.war where,
then you will not see a successful deployment till you instruct JBoss to follow these symlinks by tweaking your JBOSS_HOME/server/[config]/deploy/jboss-web.deployer/context.xml
in this the Context element should have: