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Thu 03 February 2011

How I came about learning awk

Posted by ankur in Tech (105 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

Well, at current, I'm interning at the IISc, as a research intern. A large chunk of my work is analysing logs that this implementation spews out and providing it to the team. These analysis reports enable us to look at trends, false positives and the such. Since the logs are …

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Fri 14 January 2011

Turning your gnome-screensaver on and off with a single click!

Posted by ankur in Tech (125 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

Recently, I found myself wondering what the easiest, laziest way of toggling the screen saver state would be.

Scenario:

You're not interacting with your system, but, you are still using it. You may be watching a film, or taking notes off a document or website. I frequently need to refer …

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Fri 14 January 2011

My first ever parking ticket

Posted by ankur in Life (223 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

This post is not fedora related.

Alas! I have failed to maintain my clean sheet!

The first thing that came to mind on noticing the missing vehicle was "God! It's been stolen!". Such an event occurring early in my life at Bangalore wouldn't have fit into my plans at all …

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