Almost 7 months later, I've finally managed to write about my Dodital trek and the trip to the Uttaranchal. What you will find is more of an aggregation of the daily jottings about the journey. Its arranged as book with every day as a chapter, Here you go
Dodital Trek

Kalavantin Durg, the small steep hill adjoining to Prabalgad was our motto of the day, Dec 6, 2008.

With Mallik, his cousin, Raksha, Vj, Rajo, Janki and Neeraj adventured the steep, kindof scary trek.

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Travelling Directions

• Get to Panvel, Bus or Train (Central Harbour)
• From Panvel ST Bus Depot, take a bus for Thakurwadi, and get @ the last stop, the base village

Approximate time of Trek: 4-5 hrs (including the return to the base village)
Difficulty: easy to medium, if you are not scared of heights.

Fedora 10 is finally out, Marking over 5 yrs of development.

Features

• Faster boot time with Plymouth boot
• GNOME 2.24
• KDE 4.1, Newer version over the buggy, KDE 4.0x
• OpenOffice 3.0 included
• Complete rewrite of PulseAudio Sound Server (read as Efficient and lesser bugs)

I'm going in for it, as soon as the download is complete!

Ref: Fedora 10 Release Notes

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If you have a Wincable or any other Internet account that uses Cyberoam Software for login.. And u are pissed off by the Linux client that is buggy in terms of logging off or login.

Here is a python script (My first useful python program) that logs in and logs out correctly. Without leaving a trace of /tmp/crclient.pid

You can put the script in the $HOME/bin directory. So that it is visible in $PATH.

Usage

Login
$ wincable start

Logout
$ wincable stop

You can alternatively download the script

Chrome is great, blah blah.. But I don't see web developers will use Google Chrome while developing until they have some addons like Firefox sports. Some of the life savers required are

1. Live HTTP Headers
2. Firebug
3. Web Developer Toolbar

It was there ... hanging, if Google was getting into the Browser market, now its almost a reality with Google releasing features of its browser in a comic strip.

Baptised as Google Chrome, It has some of these features

Google Chrome Features

• Each tab is a process
• Each plugin has its own addres space
• New JavaScript Engine V8 (Virtualized)
• Tab is the primary UI (so no tabs in browsers, but browsers in tabs)
• better autocomplete in the Address bar !! (Firefox 3 ?)
• Tab page (9 most visited pages, Opera has a similar feature of quick links)
• A Privacy Tab ! (nothing saved back to browser, readonly)
• Sanboxing of Tabs' memory (no reading from other tabs's process, forget writing)
• Google Gears in-built

You can enjoy the comic strip here. Or read more.

Satara is a place of plains showered with small hills all around. At times these hills are in a queue, gives an impression of being placed manually.

Vairatgad

Vairatgad Fort (Wai T; 17° 50' N, 73° 50' E; RS. Wathar, 21 m;) in Wai 3,939 feet above sea level, lies nine miles north-east of Medha and six miles south-east of Wai. The base village is Vyajvadi.

An interesting article on Facebook, Which deals with MySQL's replication system, Memcache and the replication delay.

... by setting a cookie in your browser with the current time whenever you write something to our databases. The load balancer also looks for that cookie and, if it notices that you wrote something within 20 seconds, will unconditionally send you to California. Then when 20 seconds have passed and we're certain the data has replicated to Virginia, we'll allow you to go back for safe pages.

no stopping... Michael Phelps

I got 80 text messages today. One of my friends said to me, 'Dude, how many times a day do I have to see your ugly face?'

Michael Phelps (USA)