Diwali Lunch
We had a traditional Indian lunch Today on Diwali. In pictures: Chhole (Chickpea Curry) and Poori (Deep fried wheat flatbread).
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Slow cooked Pork Tenderloin
Slow cooked Pork Tenderloin in Red Wine gravy and baked potatoes with Cheese. Made by wife
Pumpkin Carving
Fun Sunday carving pumpkins. Left one is Abby’s and Right one’s mine.
Wisdom Tooth Pain!
Had my two upper wisdom teeth extracted on Friday. Though it’s for my oral health, it’s not a very enjoying experience to go through the surgery. My already plump cheeks look even plumper because of swelling, and it hurt a lot initially but pain has gone down a lot since …
How Ryan Tomayko explained REST to his wife
Just encountered this excellent post about Ryan Tomayko explaining REST to his wife. Give it a read. It’s here: http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife
django on apache2 with mod_wsgi
Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/ Sitename: vkrm Location: /work/vkrm 1. Install mod_wsgi (and Apache if not already). I had both already installed (I checked for mod_wsgi by running “yum install mod_wsgi”). If not, follow instructions on: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationInstructions 2. Enable “mod_wsgi” and httpd.conf su -c vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Add line: LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so 3. Create …
Configuring headless transmission (torrent) client on Fedora 17
su yum install transmission yum install transmission-daemon make sure transmission-daemon service is not running service stop transmission-daemon edit configuration file to enable rpc and disable whitelist (or allow addresses in whitelist) vi /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission/settings.json start transmission-daemon service start transmission-daemon Note: if you modify settings while transmission-daemon is running, changes won’t be …
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Configuring NVidia Audio/Video on Fedora 17
A solution that worked for me: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/fedora-17-nvidia-guide/ For audio, find the device ID and add a PulseAudio sink using instructions from here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html#_pulseaudio_default_device
Dynamic MOTD in Ubuntu 12.04
Follow this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpdateMotd