This is a copy of an interesting FAQ from faqs.org. I loved reading the article and wanted to repost it in a more readable format. Courtesy: ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html First, some definitions Rescaling…
One of the Bollywood movies which I always loved watching has been ZNMD, here is a collection of shayari recited by Farhan Akthar (Imran) in ZNMD. A compiled version from Soundcloud. Apne Hone Par Mujhko Yaqeen Aa Gaya…
What is Apache Spark ? [Apache Spark][as] brings fast, in-memory data processing to Hadoop. Elegant and expressive development APIs in Scala, Java, and Python allow data workers to efficiently execute streaming, machine…
If you happen to be in Trivandrum with a bike and you love to ride, Ponmudi is one place you should visit. Sharing some photos taken by Saurab Devanandan during the trip. The Ponmudi ! Bullets :) Me the posing Nabeel…
Note: This article applies only to those who code. I have seen many people struggling with MS Excel when dealing with large CSV files. I don't blame them, because most people ignore standard Unix command-line tools…
The five photos in this post originally came from Instagram embeds; the source posts are no longer available, so the iframes are commented out below pending a re-upload to another image host. The captions remain.…
I came across a slide that explains why programming in C/C++ is hard without a proper understanding of the language. Here is a slide that demonstrates why a proper understanding of the language is necessary before you…
Owing to my poor vocabulary, I often had to look up word meanings. The following script fetches the definition of any word from dictionary.com in the terminal. A bash script dictionary A function to pronounce a word
This article will help you set up Minix 3 using VirtualBox on a Linux host for development and enable SSH between Minix and the host machine. But why, but why?? Minix is a microkernel. Unlike Linux, which is monolithic,…
I'm going to share some of my bashrc functions that save me a lot of time. Killer This function helps you find and kill a process by keyword. Instead of running , piping to grep, and manually killing by PID, just give…
This will help you configure your system to download packages from the NITC fosscell Fedora mirror. Log in as root and use the following command to create a file inside : Copy and paste the following code into the…
Use the following wget command to mirror a website: -m mirrors the entire website -k converts all links to suitable web viewing. -p downloads all required files like css, js, etc. -b wget will run in the background This…
To check your battery details in the terminal, use upower and create an alias for it. This is a helpful hack if you want to trigger events on low battery, or if you use a minimal desktop environment without a battery…
I always wanted a clean, simple interface for my blog. I used to blog on blogger with an ugly theme. If you haven't tried Jekyll yet, I would recommend using it along with Github Pages. ---
This is a fix to reset the screen brightness in Ubuntu / Linux Mint on each boot. This only works if you have a file named in , and is relevant for Ubuntu (version < 12.04), which had a bug where the brightness would be…