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Oct 17

Inspirational Talk By Randy Pausch(CMU Commencement)


Another inspirational commencement speech given By Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon University

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYv5x6gZTA

Oct 16

Resolved: USB Unrecognized Issue On Mac OS X


I recently ran into issue with the HP usb drive, which was working fine on the Windows machine & wasn’t recognized on the macbook (with snow leopard). (Happens due to different USB drive formatting ways depending on the OS)

Follow simple steps to resolve this issue:

  • Connect your USB drive; Go to Applications -> Utilities
  • Open DiskUtility.app
  • Select your drive & choose erase using FAT option & you are done 🙂
Oct 02

Inspirational Talks from successful Entrepreneur’s (via plugged.in)


Set of inspirational talk’s from successful entrepreneur’s. This is from plugged.in. It includes:

1. Mukund Mohan
2. K. Srikrishna
3. Rudrajeet Desai
4. Sunil Maheshwari
5. Sanjay Swami
6. Ashwin Naik
7. Phanindra Sama
8. Sachin Bansal
9. Gaurav Jain

http://www.pluggd.in/inspiration-from-entrepreneurs-unpluggd-videos/

Oct 02

Leadership lessons from Dancing Guy


I’ve started exploring different aspects of entrepreneurship and this marks my first post.

This is amazing video explaining importance of leading from the front.

Leadership Lessons From Dancing Guy

Sep 22

Superbug can be killed within 5 minutes


http://www.knowabouthealth.com/uk-scientist-deadly-superbug-can-be-killed-in-just-five-minutes/6500/

Sep 01

From Studying Under Street Lights to CEO


Today I came across this fabulous article:

This talks about Kalyana Raman Srinivasan aka Kal Raman. He currently serves as a CEO of the GlobalScholar & it’s a very inspirational story.

http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/sep/01/slide-show-1-from-studying-under-streetlamps-to-ceo-of-us-firm.htm

Aug 23

Absolutely Amazing Baseball Catch


This is generating lot of views worldwide:

(Source – Youtube)

Aug 18

Quickly Turn Your Blog Or Website Into OpenID


Instead of creating a new OpenID, I wanted to turn my website into OpenID. Follow this steps to convert your website or blog into OpenID.

  • Create your identity using third party sites like myopenid
  • Add following lines to <Head> section of your homepage


    <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />
    <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://[YOUR_OPENID].myopenid.com/" />

  • Your blog/website is ready to be treated as a OpenID. Don’t forget to test it though 😉
Aug 15

Port 22: Connection Refused, Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6


If you run into an issue where you can’t get into Mac OS X machine through SSH….then follow these steps:

System Preferences > Sharing > Remote Login > Check

Aug 13

Resolved: Silly Issue with Hadoop Node Format


I started setting up hadoop cluster with 2 servers. And somehow couldn’t get past the ‘namenode format’ stage. That was strange considering I wasn’t a newbie. It consistently threw the following exception now matter what I did:

[XXX]$ bin/hadoop namenode -format
INFO namenode.NameNode: STARTUP_MSG:
/************************************************************
STARTUP_MSG: Starting NameNode
STARTUP_MSG: host = hadoop1/127.0.0.1
STARTUP_MSG: args = [-format]
STARTUP_MSG: version = 0.20.2
STARTUP_MSG: build = https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.20 -r 911707; compiled by 'chrisdo' on Fri Feb 19 08:07:34 UTC 2010
************************************************************/
Re-format filesystem in /data/hadoop/name ? (Y or N) y
Format aborted in /data/hadoop/name
INFO namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG:
/************************************************************
SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at hadoop1/127.0.0.1
************************************************************/

And finally I resolved it. It turned of to be a silly case sensitivity issue. So “Y” was suppose to be uppercase…Damn!! 🙂