Comment on The Hindu on MH370

April 2, 2014 |  MH370 
I sent another comment to [The Hindu](http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/race-against-time-in-search-for-missing-flight-mh370/article5857747.ece?homepage=true) on MH370 disappearance and the recent developments around it which they published.

Crazy idea

March 21, 2014 |  MH370  critter-cam 
Here's a crazy idea on how to increase the chances of locating the missing plane. This is based on the assumption that the flight had indeed crashed in the ocean as many experts seem to believe. If the creatures do find us the missing plane, we humans give

MySQL Post Install Setup

Dec. 24, 2013 |  linux  MySQL 
After MySQL is installed, either as part of Ubuntu Server installation sequence or separately through an appropriate apt-get command, it needs to be properly initialized for use by a client. One key concept of any standalone database engine is that they ha

Linux Command Output Redirection Rules

Dec. 24, 2013 |  ubuntu  linux  redirection 
Here's another thing that I learned today -- command output redirection syntax. In other words: This is how things work on Ubuntu and bash. Other shells could very well be different.

Setting up Ubuntu for Python Development

Dec. 23, 2013 |  django  pip  python  virtualenv 
This is more for my own reference as I often forget the various steps that I followed to get an environment set up. This post lists the steps that I followed to setup an Ubuntu Server for Python/Django/MySQL environment. The steps are drawn from various re