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Photos of “THE TAJ”

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:57:20 +0000

Much deserved vacation and visit to “THE TAJ”

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TAJ from front

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TAJ and reflection

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TAJ Full View

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TAJ Reflection

Lal Bagh 2013 – Photos from Flower show on 15 Aug 2013

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:12:55 +0000

Its again that time of the year, when visiting Lal Bagh ( Bangalore , India) is so much fun. There is a lot of crowd and there are lot of opportunities for photography. So, here are some of the photos 😉

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For more, visit my Flickr profile.

Disable a few cores when you want to save power.

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:23:46 +0000

If you have a lot of CPU power and working on battery. If you do not need that much of power and would like to rather save some battery power by disabling some cpus then you can use the below script. This script disables cpus from 4 to 7. You can change the number in the for loop. You would need the sudo to be setup or remove sudo and run the script as root. The script will show you the currently active cpu’s before and after disabling the CPU’s.

N900 and skype support

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:35:09 +0000

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

I was trying to add my skype account on the N900 today and could not add the account. I did not find any option to add the same. After some googling and searching, I found that I need to re-flash my N900.

Corruption, India and Social Activist

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:25:33 +0000

First off, sorry for being completely off beat this time but I could not help but write on this.

Everyone in the world by now would have definitely heard about the Indian’s Fight against corruption. Very good thing to do, there should be no corruption in any country in the world and if there is corruption then it should be fought. Now, lets look at how India is fighting this:

Mohali Maahol!!!! KRICKET Diplomacy comes of AGE!!!!

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:56:56 +0000

Enjoy reading this 🙂

Mohali Maahol+ACEAIQAhACE KRICKET Diplomacy comes of AGE+ACEAIQAhACE Eleven flannelled fools chasing a red ball, with eleven thousand fools cheering them.

Bernard Shaw

This Englishman would have turned aback in his grave+ACEAIQAh By George+ACEAIQAhACE Had he glimpsed the current fervour and crescendo the game has attained. The World Cup which began in an almost staid and lacklustre manner (the Opening Ceremony was quite a damp squib, my thoughts) +IBM slowly but surely reached a state of frenzy with each win for India.

Happy Diwali to all

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:54:56 +0000

Wish all of you a Very Very Happy and Safe Diwali. Hope you enjoy this festival.

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Diwali Pooja

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Diwali Crackers

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Diwali Crackers

Happy Janamastmi

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:18:11 +0000

Happy Janamastmi to all of you 🙂

SMS from my site - free worldwide.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:51:24 +0000

Thanks to Free widget, now you can send worldwide free SMS from the widgets in my blog.

Hope it helps you.

Blog once and educate 40,000 underprivileged children of India

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:07 +0000

Here’s one of the mail that I received from the IndiBlogger team.

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dear <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://www.labnol.org/about.html">Amit Agarwal,

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is a unique opportunity to reach out and impact thousands of lives through your blog. Yes, sitting at your desk and writing a <a class="zem_slink" title="blog post" rel="homepage" href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130">blog post can help educate 40,000 young Indians all over our country!

<span style="font-size: x-small;">One of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/india" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India’s most trusted and credible <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization">NGOs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/giveindia" title="GiveIndia" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveIndia">GiveIndia is taking part in a competition on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/facebook" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook to win a US$1 million grant. The winner will be the NGO that gets the highest number of votes from Facebook users. The prize of $1 million will help put or keep 40,000 children across India in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/school" title="School" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School">school for one year!

Citibank Doesn\’t Want Your Business, Linux Users

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:36:24 +0000

This is an article from the Citibank customers in US.

The Consumerist: ”Citibank won’t let customers using Linux computers log in to their online accounts. Adam argues that in 2009 this doesn’t make sense, especially when no other major corporate website blocks him like this.”

URL: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW">http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW

But in India too we don’t have much too different environment. Though I do not have any issues with the Citibank site, but I have HDFC Insurance. I always pay the premium online. This time the payment failed couple of times and the amount was deducted from my account. When checked with the Customer Service Desk, the confirmed that the payment option does not work on Firefox with Linux. For this time I have made the payment using Cash, but why should there be OS discrimination.