tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136068532024-03-13T05:31:57.492+05:30Whatever....gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.comBlogger344125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-81891393973999391112019-11-10T15:49:00.001+05:302019-11-10T15:49:42.153+05:30Can you correct my name please ?At the end of last year - 2018, I joined a tech company that allowed me to reimburse all food bills as long as the bill had my name on it. For the first few days, I started gathering food bills from all around me. All my friends knew that food bill have to be in my name. I am still a loyal zomato user, however, for the first time, I tried using swiggy to order my daily lunches so I can claimgamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-14530978349235515752019-11-06T13:57:00.001+05:302019-11-06T13:57:56.800+05:30Should I take a car loan ?l got my first car at the age of 27. I "had" money. I got a car worth 7 lakh INR in 2007. I took a huge loan of 5 lakh INR (1 Lakh = 100,000). And paid an emi of around 10,800/- for the next 5 years. The interest itself costed me 150,000/- extra. Which means for the car which I got for 700,000, I paid 850,000.
And a car is a depreciating asset. Which means, as the car grows old, its value gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-52975942555172078072019-01-05T17:58:00.000+05:302019-01-05T17:58:10.910+05:30My struggle with Dominos - again
I did not learn any lession from my earlier experience http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2011/03/encounter-with-dominos.html
Let us see how frustrating is it to get a duplicate invoice from Dominos. Question - is Dominos fudging its records to avoid Tax.I ordered a lot of pizzas for my kids party. It was a bulk order placed on phone and the payment was by cash.I called back the next day to get a gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-15289240849919790562018-09-13T10:33:00.001+05:302018-09-13T10:33:41.484+05:30Toastmaster P10 : Be happy
Do you ever wonder why we exist? What is the purpose of life? What would be my contribution to the big picture? Or in fact, what is the big picture? There are many contradictory views on this subject - mostly religious and some scientific. Some people say that their goal in life is to be successful. But do they know the definition of success? Is it money, family, position or simply peace? Ifgamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-19637913993758149792018-09-05T11:47:00.000+05:302018-09-05T11:47:53.266+05:30Toastmaster P9 : Hair today gone tomorrow
Opening (1M) Yes, I am going to talk about hair loss and the alternatives that we to-be-bald people have. Good morning fellow toastmasters and guests. Today I am going to derive the best hairstyle for most of us.Body (4M) Let me tell you my story. How i came to have this hairstyle. Once upon a time, that was me with hair.
Not long ago,gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-19559280439783581042018-09-03T15:39:00.000+05:302018-09-03T15:39:38.389+05:30Toastmaster P8 speech : Are we machines ?
Opening :
Do we believe we are human beings? Yes we do. Because we are able to identify and differentiate between different faces, voice tones and expressions. And most importantly we are have feelings and we are self aware. Let us see what a machine is capable of ?
Body :
We can see 2 numbers here. If you put these numbers in a machine - say a calculator or a gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-1512805487668121382018-08-20T14:21:00.001+05:302018-08-20T14:21:36.579+05:30Toastmaster P7 speech : How much is enough ?
Opening Jack daniels, black label, double black, royal stag, blenders pride, baccardi, bira, sula. Most of us have heard these brands. And some of us have memories associated with them. Some good and some bad. Some which we keep on trying to deny. Good morning toastmasters and fellow guests, today I am not going to talk about the bad effects of alcohol. I am gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-27779816194385050772018-05-17T10:17:00.000+05:302018-05-17T10:17:02.524+05:30Toastmaster P6 Speech : Google Aunty
Opening : 1M Most of us use google maps to help us to find directions to our destination. [[Demo of google voice assistant : directions to home]] Google maps works. But have you ever been (assert) misrouted by google maps. Can you recall that experience ?Body : 4M I have been misled few times. One gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-34250241656626191882018-04-03T14:47:00.000+05:302018-04-03T14:47:39.563+05:30Toastmaster P5 speech : Fraudalert
Opening : 1M Have you ever had your wallet stolen ? Where ? I had my wallet stolen was around 4-5 years back, when I was in the metro heading to the railway station. I still remember that I felt the hand slip into my pocket and take out my wallet in the crowded metro and when I looked around, there were a lot of people and I could not figure out who took my gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-26362434594452903132018-03-19T14:25:00.001+05:302018-03-19T14:25:42.857+05:30Toastmaster P4 Speech : Ijen Crater
Opening : 1M Have you ever smelled burnt sulphur ? It has this sharp choking smell that hits your nose and scratches your throat and makes you want to stop breathing. Imagine breathing that smell for a long time. Dear toastmasters, I visited a volcanic sulphur mine at ijen crater during my trip to indonesia. It was a trek which I will never forget.Body : 4M Wegamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-78913361874381550782018-03-14T14:18:00.000+05:302018-03-14T14:18:23.942+05:30Toastmaster P3 : Why travel ?
Do you think it is a pain to travel ? First getting bus, train or plane tickets to your desired destination. Then packing your bags and moving from one location to another. All this to see the same earth, sky and water which you can see anywhere. Let me explain the benefits of travelling, which should persuade and inspire you to travel more.Travelling improves your social and communication gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-8592801376092863632018-03-05T11:05:00.002+05:302018-03-05T11:05:25.642+05:30Toastmaster P2 : E-commerce vs Brick & Mortar Stores
Can I have a show of hands on how many of us prefer to shop online? And how many of us prefer to go out to a store to shop? Would huge brands like amazon or flipkart let the brick & mortar shops survive ? Or would these huge brands eventually run out of investor funds and shut down ? Good morning gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-16356297391287502772018-03-05T10:42:00.002+05:302018-03-05T10:42:44.555+05:30Toastmaster PI Speech : Story of love
I still remember the day when I was small boy and I saw it for the first time. It was love at first sight. It had blinking eyes and all 10 numbers. Yes it was the casio calculator watch which did addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on your wrist. I wanted it so badly. But it was very expensive and also not allowed in school. The casio calculator watch was my first love. And also gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-16752577186805674282017-08-19T08:37:00.000+05:302017-08-19T08:37:17.541+05:30A rant on Uber and Ola
Uber and ola have been in India for a long time now. Why do I want to rant about them now ? Read on. I promise it is interesting.What happened with Uber ?Uber keeps on sending me promo codes, but whenever I try to use them, i am told that the code is not valid for me. I used to ignore it in the past. But last week, when I was planning my ride, i thought of asking uber - why do they send me promogamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-62638826386083257782016-01-26T14:08:00.000+05:302016-01-26T14:08:30.981+05:30Build your own in house weather station
We all use a smartphone and most of the smart phones generally have a weather app. Which shows the weather for your city. But do you wonder what would be the weather like inside your house or inside your room? The "in house weather station" monitors the weather inside your house. With its help, you can get a report of what the weather is outside and compare it with the weather inside. Here we gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-58368886198002182132015-11-28T13:38:00.002+05:302015-11-28T13:40:54.603+05:30Use your smartphone as a GUI display for your pi
With a very simple hack, we can use our smartphone as a GUI display for your raspberry pi. This can work over remotely and there is not HDMI or any other connector required to connect your smartphone to your pi.
There are a few apps that you would require on your smartphone. Download and install
Xserver XSDL
Connectbot
Xserver XSDL is a xserver which can be run on your smartphone. Whereas gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-28663267486724358692015-11-09T18:42:00.002+05:302015-11-09T18:43:57.594+05:30Script to update godaddy dns A record
Recently, I have setup my raspberry pi as a download machine. The aim was to be able to access the machine from anywhere and be able to add files to download. Now, since the machine is connected via airtel broadband, it is bound to go down and come up as and when the electricity in my location does.
Everytime, when the machine came up, i would be having a different public ip address to access gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-44124589159665925622015-01-20T07:18:00.001+05:302015-01-20T21:13:07.108+05:30Ecommerce review : Amazon.in shopping experienceI use ecommerce extensively. All my stuff - from clothes to shoes to electronics to groceries are delivered to my doorstep. The good point about ecommerce is that it saves you from the headache of driving down to the store, parking, standing in a queue to pay for your purchase, and hauling the stuff back to your place. And I use multiple shopping sites for getting my stuff:
Flipkart for books &gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-35085886336728119362014-09-09T18:04:00.002+05:302014-09-09T18:05:46.650+05:30gitlab hooks and disabling forced push
For people who do not know much about gitlab, it is a "github" equivalent with the possibility of deployment in a local network. Which means, that if your organization is not comfortable of pushing code to an external website like github, you can get all the features that github provides in your local environment.
The installation of gitlab is not an easy process. If you have an ubuntu-type gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-54347855160276222162014-04-01T13:44:00.002+05:302014-04-01T13:45:23.713+05:30Auto failover of mysql master in mysql multi-master multi-slave cluster
This post is an extension to my earlier posts about multi master replication cluster multi master replication in mysql and mysql multi master replication act II The problem I had encountered and discussed was with automatic failover. What happens when the master goes down? How can either a slave or another master be promoted to become the master? Once the settings are done on all the mysql dbs gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-23570005472471364342014-03-19T19:52:00.001+05:302014-03-19T19:54:41.931+05:30An interesting suggester in Solr
Auto suggestion has evolved over time. Lucene has a number of
implementations for type ahead suggestions. Existing suggesters
generally find suggestions whose whole prefix matches the current user
input. Recently a new AnalyzingInfixSuggester has been developed which
finds matches of tokens anywhere in the user input and in the
suggestion. Here is how the implementation looks.
gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-46409359759565648782014-02-24T17:13:00.000+05:302014-02-24T17:13:05.724+05:30
Win Free e-copies of Apache Solr PHP Integration
Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a giveaway of Apache Solr PHP Integration
And 3 lucky winners stand a chance to win e-copies of their new book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners.
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• Understand the tools that can be used to communicate between gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-68412769649495133142013-12-23T17:56:00.000+05:302013-12-23T17:56:33.637+05:30A book every php developer should read
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, when there was no Solr and lucene used to be a search engine api available for php developers to use, they used to struggle for using lucene. Most people reverted back to Mysql full text search. And some ventured into using sphinx - another free full text search engine. Then came Solr and php developers were thrilled with the ease of use over the http gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-5810158022882420052013-08-31T16:26:00.000+05:302013-08-31T16:26:13.971+05:30Handling mongodb connections
Mongodb is fast and for medium to large setup, it just works out of the box. But for setups which are bigger than large, you may run into a situation where the number of connections max out. So for extra large setups, let us look at how to increase the number of connections in a mongodb server. Mongodb uses file descriptors to manage connections. In most unix-like operating systems, the default gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13606853.post-6468998941172174742013-08-31T16:23:00.000+05:302013-08-31T16:23:07.385+05:30Chevrolet Aveo ownership report
In 2006, when I was looking for a sedan to purchase, I had multiple options. Ford fiesta and hyundai verna were recently released. Honda city was selling like hot cakes. I was opting for either ford or hyundai. But then while discussing my options around, I came to know the chevrolet aveo was also there in the same segment and has some features which really impressed me - like the ground gamegeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557771372755358783noreply@blogger.com4