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Saturday, Jan 6, 2024
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is compelling and insightful book that delves into the science of habits and how small changes can lead to significant results.
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Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023
Chakra UI Text without line break
How to use Text component without line break
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Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023
Enabling VIM copy and paste on Debian 12 (Book Worm)
how to enable mouse copy on debian 12 bookworm in all modes.
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Monday, Mar 20, 2023
Oracle Linux 8 Extending Root Partition.
I faced hard time today to increase the size of Root partition in oracle linux 8 LVM on VMware. Just thought of extending it for future reference.
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Saturday, Feb 25, 2023
Some notes about Pfile and SPfile in Oracle Database
Learning some details on server parameter file and initialization parameter file i.e., spfile and pfile
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Friday, Feb 24, 2023
How to know if Oracle DB started with Pfile or SPfile
How to know if Oracle DB started with Pfile or SPfile
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Saturday, Dec 24, 2022
Upgrading Postgres from 14 to 15 on Neon.tech
Upgrading from Postgres 14 to 15 was so easy on neon.tech. I followed the following steps.
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Thursday, Dec 15, 2022
Announcing PixelDigit v2
New year new change. Happy to announce PixelDigit v2
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Friday, Nov 20, 2020
BigSur – Homebrew: Your CLT does not support macOS 11.0
Homebrew: Your CLT does not support macOS 11.0 error
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Monday, Oct 26, 2020
NodeJs and Mysql Date problem
Today I spent much time to figure out an issue related to ‘date’ on my new project with NodeJs / Adonis using a Mysql backend.
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Sunday, May 24, 2020
Switching between Terminals in VSCode.
VSCode allows to have multiple terminal tabs, but manually switching between them using drop down is an hectic task. so thought to have a keyboard shortcut that allows me to switch between them.
Praveen AS
Friday, Nov 15, 2019
macOS Catalina VMware Fusion networking issue
Today i tried to setup Vmware fusion on macOs catalina with Vagrant i faced an error as following
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Saturday, Sep 14, 2019
Gsuil returning checksum error
When I just installed the google cloud SDK noticed the following error
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Thursday, Jan 24, 2019
Laravel Homestead7.0 Php artisan Error
After upgrading to homestead 7.0.0 box whenever I run the artisan command on Mac book terminal (Host Machine) it returned the following error
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Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018
Updating Vagrant box manually.
I was trying to update my laravel/homestead vagrant box from 6.3.0 to the latest version 6.4.0 since yesterday and every time I run the command ‘vagrant box update’ the process used to fail either because of ‘Network Issues’ or ‘SSL errors’.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
PhpStorm Database Console user variable for substituting php variable
Today I spent some time to figure out a ‘user variable’ for substituting a php variable in queries done through the database console in Php Storm
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Monday, Feb 19, 2018
Laravel – Uncaught ReflectionException
Uncaught ReflectionException
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Saturday, Oct 7, 2017
Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to error for VMWare Fusion on High Sierra
I was getting the above error message while trying to run VM ware Fusion 10
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Monday, Oct 2, 2017
Airdrop not working after upgrading to MacOS HighSierra?
I was trying to Airdrop a file from my Iphone to Macbook Air after upgrading to HighSierra.
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Saturday, Sep 9, 2017
Debian Stretch 9 issue with vim: copy and paste
In Debian Stetch 9 there is a new behaviour in vim, the copy and paste with the mouse is unusual
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Friday, Sep 8, 2017
Prevent Creative Cloud from loading at startup on Mac
So annoying to see the creative cloud icon on loading ? Follow below steps to avoid it
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Saturday, Mar 25, 2017
Php Laravel Class log does not exist error
Today when I upgraded my server running a Laravel 5.1 application to php7.0 it stopped working with the following error message.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Autostart Seafile client on login in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I was having some experiments to setup a file sync system of my own in order to replace Dropbox.
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Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016
Sequel Pro Connection issue to Mysql on Laravel Homestead -El Capitan Macbook-vmware fusion
Today I faced hard time while trying to use sequel pro to mysql homestead on macbook pro running on El capitan using Vmware Fusion
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Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016
A visit to Al Dar Islands
Really enjoyed the trip to Al Dar last week.. it is a nice place to relax..
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016
Why should we use a framework for PHP Development?
When you setup a PHP Framework, it already has a certain folder structure. Most of the Framework uses MVC (Model-View-Controller) guideline or structure for managing the code.
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Wednesday, Dec 9, 2015
Welcome PHP 7
Just updated the server holding the blog to PHP7 and really I can feel the difference in speed!
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Tuesday, Nov 10, 2015
Back to Iphone
Couldn’t resist buying Iphone 6s so now back to IOS..
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Wednesday, Oct 28, 2015
Problem with script not running automatically in /etc/network/if-up.d/
I was testing a new instance of Debian Jessie with a new cloud provider scaleway and was struggling to find the issue why one of the bash script is not running on the startup
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2015
Profile Error on One Plus One
When I tried to click on the You (Owner) profile under Users>Users & Profiles it said “The Contact Does not Exist”. Later I googled and found the fix
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Sunday, Sep 13, 2015
VMware Workstation on Windows 10 two Issues fixed
After upgrading to windows 10 on one computer VMware virtual machine was not starting and an error was displaying “Internal Error” for all VM’s
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Wednesday, Jun 24, 2015
One plus One
phone of choice one plus one
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Monday, May 11, 2015
Ubuntu 15.04 VMware tools install issue
Whenever I tried to install vmware tools on ubuntu 15.04,
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Monday, Feb 23, 2015
Discourse Multisite Install
I faced a hard time configuring multi sites on Discourse. Standalone install was fine and straight forward. Here are some important points from my trials.
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Saturday, Feb 7, 2015
Dealing with PHP Warning – mysql_connect(): Headers and client library minor version mismatch.
Came across this error in NGINX Error log
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Sunday, Jan 11, 2015
Default site for name based virtual host on NGINX
I was looking for option to load a particular site for a domain name pointed to a IP on NGINX. Following option did the trick.
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Saturday, Nov 22, 2014
Fixing VMware Workstation “Not enough physical memory is available” Error
Today when I opened my VMware workstation, I was greeted with a strange error message as follows
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Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014
SElinux permission issue for Laravel 5 on NGINX with PHP-FPM on Fedora 21
Finally looking at the NGINX log , i found there is some permission issues and SElinux is the culprit.
Praveen AS
Thursday, Oct 23, 2014
Remove Duplicate Icon form Launcher on OS X Yosemite
After updating Xcode to 6.1, my launcher was having two icons for Xcode.
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014
Fedora 21 – Login Screen Loop
I was testing Fedora 21 alpha and in process of setting the development environment. But today morning I ended up in a login screen loop which drove me crazy!
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Tuesday, Sep 30, 2014
In love with Laravel
Laravel is a great frame work and I really love the following features
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Sunday, Sep 14, 2014
Viva vs Zain
It was fun to watch the advertisement battle last week between Viva & Zain for their post paid packages
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Saturday, Aug 23, 2014
Drag Drop / Copy Paste from Host to Guest Vice Versa not working for copied VM on VMware workstation 10.0.1
I faced issue when tried to drag drop / copy paste on Ubuntu 14 guest copied from another machine on Windows 8.1 Guest VMware Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776
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Thursday, Aug 7, 2014
Ubuntu – Customise login screen to avoid unwanted Users
I was searching for an option to hide unwanted system and web users from login screen of Ubuntu and came across this one.
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Saturday, Jul 12, 2014
My-HD an affordable DTH in Middle East
Last week when checked, CNN International HD was found encrypted and not available FTA
Praveen AS
Sunday, Jun 29, 2014
CNN International in HD
After other major players BBC World, RT News, Press Tv finally CNN also started HD broadcasting on Arabsat. Picture quality is amazing.
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Saturday, Jun 21, 2014
Moved to Zain Network
From long time I was in search of a good package which can balance between data and calls. I saw one from Batelco called ‘smart 7’, but they had a condition that any customer under any exiting post paid plan cannot move into it
Praveen AS
Saturday, Jun 21, 2014
Brazil 2014
It is world cup fever again.. not finding enough time to see all the matches..
Praveen AS
Saturday, Nov 9, 2013
Installing phpmyadmin on IIS 8.5 Windows 2012 R2
Phpmyadmin is the most widely used tool for managing Mysql database. During my installation I faced difficulty in importing sql files as always it gave me ‘File cannot be read’ error.
Praveen AS
Friday, Nov 8, 2013
Installing php 5.5 on Windows 2012 R2
Faced hard time today to figure out the issue of ‘The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly’ error while installing php5.5 on windows 2012 R2
Praveen AS
Saturday, Nov 2, 2013
Enabling Flash on Firefox – Ubuntu
In case the automatic installation of Firefox plugin fails, you can use the following Manual steps:
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Friday, Aug 30, 2013
Much Awaited Merger
At last the much awaited merger has happen, now awe can expect some good packages including HD channels , South Indian and Hindi channels from Orbit.. Now I am depending on Airtel
Praveen AS
Friday, Aug 30, 2013
BBC World News HD
Wow, BBC world news HD is now available on Arabsat.
Praveen AS
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Debian 7
I did a fresh install of Debian 7 ( Wheezy) on the box running this blog.. seems nice little more performance and bit less memory usage.
Praveen AS
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Amazon s3 backup using s3cmd 1.1.0 beta2 on Ubuntu
Advantage of using s3cmd 1.1.0 beta2 is that it supports multi part upload which is must to upload files larger than 5 GB.
Praveen AS
Saturday, Feb 2, 2013
Fedora18 on Virtual Box
I tried to install Fedora 18 64 bit on my Virtual Box running on 64 bit windows 8 every time it failed with errors..
Praveen AS
Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013
Problem Starting Oracle XE Edition
I faced a strange problem on starting Oracle today
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Monday, Aug 20, 2012
Asp.net 4.5 Update
Microsoft released new version of asp.net 4.5 last week.
Praveen AS
Friday, Aug 10, 2012
Vacation 2012
wow, I am in India for my one month vacation..
Praveen AS
Saturday, Jul 7, 2012
TRAI proposal to regulate the duration, frequency, timing and audio levels of advertisements
Irritated by those frequent commercial breaks between your favourite programme on TV?
Praveen AS
Friday, Jun 22, 2012
Horrible Experience I faced with my mobile provider Batelco
Let me share the Horrible Experience I faced trying to Upgrade to ‘My package +’ from normal ‘My package’ with Batelco.
Praveen AS
Thursday, May 31, 2012
How to remove an entry from Remote Desktop Connection Client
Since I used to connect to different servers, my remote desktop connection client had lot of unused IP’s.. I was thinking about a way to remove it as there is no option provided to remove it on the interface.
Praveen AS
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Installed ICS on Samsung Galaxy S
I tried installing ICS on samsung Galaxy s
Praveen AS
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Advertisements Advertisements Advertisements
Fed up watching advertisements on TV channels.. It is like more than 50% or each program slot are now advertisements.
Praveen AS
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
HD Magic
Finally Zee TV , Zee Cinema HD is available on Airtel DTH.. waiting for Zee Studio HD, it is a good channel.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Google Chrome Portable
Advantage of Portable Applications is that you can run without installing it.. last week I downloaded Google Chrome portable version..
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Monday, Apr 2, 2012
Time to try KVM
I have tried both XEN and OPEN VZ virtualisations and now feel to try the KVM..
Praveen AS
Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012
Microsoft Open Door Bahrain
Attended Microsoft Open Door today at Gulf International Convention Centre.
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Friday, Mar 23, 2012
New broadband packages from MenaTelecom
Our provider introduced new broadband packages .. upgraded to 3Mb, 15 GB limit.. Seems good now..
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Saturday, Feb 25, 2012
Iphone 4s
From long time I was thinking about trying Iphone. So brought an Iphone 4s when there was an offer at Carrefour
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Saturday, Jan 14, 2012
Finally, I am able to tune all Intelsat 17 channels
As I mentioned in previous post, my Technosat HD T- 786 receiver was not able to save few channels like Asianet Middle East, Reporter, Jeevan, Jaihind, Asianet News etc because
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Sunday, Dec 25, 2011
Install Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread XXJVT Update on Samsung Galaxy S GT I9000
Since my Galaxy s completed its first year last Oct, I thought about trying update my phone my self to the latest GingerBird version rather than going to the Samsung service center.
Praveen AS
Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/rowset/CachedRowSetImpl on Jboss-7
It is easy to fix this error just follow the following.
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Saturday, Nov 26, 2011
South Channels migrated to INTELSAT 17 66*East
Since the lifespan of Insat 2E is nearing its end, most of the channels are now migrated to a new satellite Intelsat 17 at 66 Degrees East,
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
Issue with ssh-copy-id command to server runnning on different SSH port
It took me some time to trace out the issue.. may be it will help someone..
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
scp from a remote server running on non default ssh port
I was trying scp command to copy a file from another server running on a port other than default one..
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Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
Viber
I found a very good application for Android, which allows me to make free calls and SMS to friends.
Praveen AS
Monday, Jul 11, 2011
Google Plus
I Just got an invitation from Santhosh to join Google Plus.. seems nice and simple.
Praveen AS
Saturday, Jul 9, 2011
Upgraded Galaxy s to GingerBird.. (2.3)
Thanks to Samsung that they are now providing upgrades much better than before. I upgraded my Android phone
Praveen AS
Thursday, Jun 30, 2011
Back from vacation
I am back to Bahrain after a short 22 days vacation. It was a very nice trip.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Reporter – Malayalam News Channel in HD
Today I tuned to ‘Reporter’ the new Malayalam news channel started by Nikesh Kumar (Old India Vision). Broadcast quality seems pretty good.
Praveen AS
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Exploring AWS
From last few days, I was exploring AWS,
Praveen AS
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Evernote
Evernote has become a very useful tool, thanks to its powerful synchronisation feature with PC / Android & Web.
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Wednesday, Apr 27, 2011
Ubuntu – Implementation of the USB 2.0 controller not found! after upgrading to virtual box 4.0.6
I got a strange error message when I tried starting Ubuntu after upgrading to latest virtual box 4.0.6..
Praveen AS
Saturday, Apr 23, 2011
Congratulations Team India!
From afternoon sat in front of TV and for some time I lost hope when 2 wickets went fast..Any how at last India made it..
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Sunday, Apr 17, 2011
FB Application
Completed a simple Facebook application for mohanlalonline to display news items on facebook itself.
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Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011
Debain – current kerberos password?
Today I came across a strange issue on my server running Debian Squeeze, when I added a new user and tried to change the password for this user using
Praveen AS
Thursday, Apr 7, 2011
Source Code – Movie
Saw movie ‘Source Code’ today at Seef. It was a nice sci-fi movie… worth to watch..
Praveen AS
Friday, Mar 25, 2011
Media Temple Grid Hosting
I am with MT from last few years. In my opinion it is the best hosting I ever had and have not faced any major issues or downtime till now.
Praveen AS
Monday, Mar 21, 2011
How to change Time Zone in Debian / Ubuntu ?
To change time zone in Debian / Ubuntu Linux is very easy.. than going for primitive methods.. just use the following command and reboot your machine.
Praveen AS
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011
Death of Indian DTH in Bahrain
When I brought SUN Direct , I was joyed with the fact that it should work same till 2018 ( proposed satellite life). Unfortunately Insat 4B got an unexpected power issue which lead to the lose of 50% transponders.
Praveen AS
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011
Securing my Debian Box
Here are few steps which I have followed to secure my Linux boxes
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Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011
Switched to Debian
I have rebuild my server using debain squeeze, it is a wonderful & stable distribution.
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Monday, Mar 14, 2011
Adobe Air Application
Last month I tried my hands on Adobe Air frame work, seems wonderful..
Praveen AS
Saturday, Jan 15, 2011
Updated Android to Froyo
I was eagerly waiting for the Froyo release for my Samsung Galaxy on Kies, but didn’t happen.
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Wednesday, Dec 29, 2010
Tip for Shared Folder in VirualBox
whenever i try to share a host folder (windows 7 ) with guest Ubuntu 10.10 on Virutal box, i was getting error
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Wednesday, Dec 29, 2010
Parent’s Visit
My parents are here in Bahrain for short 1 month stay.. reached here on 13th Night. Luckily Air India Express was on time that day.
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Wednesday, Nov 3, 2010
Switched to Android
For last few months, i was in search of a good Android phone…
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Wednesday, Nov 3, 2010
Less Active
Sorry guys.. was bit busy for last few months…..with lot of things.. will be back on track now.
Praveen AS
Saturday, Apr 24, 2010
PHP 5.3.x , MYSQL issue on windows IIS7 (Fast-CGI)
During last upgrade of my PHP version, I noticed a strange issue. Whenever I accessed any page using mysql following error appears..
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Saturday, Apr 24, 2010
India DTH & Satellites
Last few days, i was trying to find out which DTH platform signals will be most available in Middle East..
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Saturday, Apr 17, 2010
Apache 2.2.15 and PHP 5.3.2
I have upgraded my server to latest version of Apache and PHP……
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Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
At last i got a viva sim
Thanks to coldstore friend, At last I got a viva prepaid sim today.
Praveen AS
Monday, Mar 1, 2010
Trip to Oman
I had a business visit to Muscat (Oman) for a day.
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Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
Around web in 2010
World wide web has changed a lot since last 2 years, every where it is twitter,face book and other social networking sites.
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Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
Google Buzz
From past one week, again ‘Google Buzz’ is the most talked thing on the web.
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Monday, Feb 8, 2010
Viva
It is time to book a new number with the new mobile operator Viva .
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Friday, Feb 5, 2010
Cool Friday
It was a cool Friday today, went around Bahrain from morning to evening.
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Friday, Jan 29, 2010
Top 20 Most Popular Internet Passwords
If you are busy maintaining your social life on Facebook, with no second thoughts on the password you have chosen, then it is time you ought to give it a change before hackers take the opportunity to break into your account.
Praveen AS
Friday, Jan 29, 2010
Who Moved My Cheese?
Few months ago, one of my colleague brought me a book called ‘Who moved my cheese’ written by Spencer Johnson
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Friday, Jan 29, 2010
Jquery 1.4
Jquery is one of the finest library I have ever used.
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Friday, Jan 8, 2010
New Movies
Last week I saw two new movies, Avatar & 2012.
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Friday, Jan 8, 2010
jan2010
Last week, it was too hectic at office, lot of projects are going on including the CMS implementation of Central Bank of Bahrain.
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Friday, Jan 1, 2010
Happy New Year 2010!
Welcome to 2010…
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Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009
Baby Girl
We are blessed with a baby Girl ! both mother and baby is fine.
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Monday, Nov 23, 2009
All are in Eid Holiday Mood
Hooray! holidays are coming
Praveen AS
Monday, Nov 23, 2009
Update Php & Apache
Just visited Apache and PHP sites and noticed that, there are new releases. So thought of updating apache to 2.2.14 and PHP to 5.3.1 on the server.
Praveen AS
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009
Visual Studio 2010 / Dotnet 4 Express beta 2
Downloaded and installed visual studio beta 2 and dotnet frame work 4. Seems much stable than older version
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Thursday, Nov 5, 2009
Google Wave
Last week I got an invitation for the preview of Google wave from my friend Chacko.
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Monday, Oct 26, 2009
Gitex 2009
Been to Dubai for Gitex expo 2009. Lot of companies, lot of products…
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Monday, Oct 26, 2009
Fedora 11 Update
updated my fedora installation to fedora 11. But for some reasons, wireless is not working..need to check
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Monday, Oct 26, 2009
Windows 7
During Gitex, saw the demo for windows 7
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Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009
Too busy now a days
Concentrating only on New website for Mohanlalonline.
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Saturday, Oct 10, 2009
starting pixel digit my blog
Since last one year, I was in search for a creative name related to designing / programming rather than going with a conventional individual domain name.
