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• Design on various devices

• Apple Ads from ’80s

• CSS border-radius Conference talk from Lea Verou

• A Food Printer. Its real!

• Used the postbox after a long time

• Apple Status

• History of the Command key on Mac

• What non-tech questions to ask When outsourcing to a development team …

• Small Victories is a simple way to make a website out of the contents of a Dropbox folder.

• Pluralsight acquires PeepCode

• Code on the Cloud (through the browser) - Choose one

  • Nitrous.io provides you with an individual server to get started with and you can buy up more nitrous based on your requirement.
  • Cloud9 IDE (free version) shares your server with about 1000s of other users on OpenShift on an 8Gig server

• Chromecast for $35 (Watch movies directly on your TV)

• Ethics are subjective. There are no right answers

• For the fitness freaks and enthusiasts out there - There is a stackexchange site for that.

• HTTPS explained in the real world

• Unable to find reservations in a restaurant ? There could be a bot blocking them all 😃

• Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ve fed him for life which is not quite true in the programming world

• Cool SSH info background image on iTerm

• vim configuration

  • http://www.catonmat.net/blog/vim-plugins-surround-vim/
  • http://www.vimninjas.com/2012/09/03/5-plugins-you-should-put-in-your-vimrc/
  • http://statico.github.io/vim.html

• Comics B.C. | Dilbert | Joy of Tech | Calvin and Hobbes

• The digital collection of handheld electronic games

• Flynn - Open source PaaS powered by Docker is looking for sponsors

• Flipkart’s Payment Gateway - payzippy

• A successful entrepreneur actively finds and uncovers opportunities for financial gain in the world around them. Read the full article

• I switched from using AOL Reader to Feedly.

  • Missing the background tabs from AOL Reader - Articles open in a background window when I use ‘v’ to open them.
  • Well, there’s an extension for that to open in background tabs with “;” as default.
  • Feedly is way faster than AOL Reader, takes less than few seconds.

• Use chrome://net-internals/#dns to look and clear the Chrome DNS cache

• I ordered a package from Amazon.in, but their shipping partner still informs that they received the package before I placed the order. Reminded me of Amazon’s Yesterday Service.

I bought an MK802 through a colleague about an year ago. I have only used it twice till now to test. I wanted to a small sized PC so that my parents could browse the internet. It could not reach the wireless server possibly because of the power of both the router and this tiny pc. I ended up stashing it till yesterday where I learnt that Lubuntu( a light weight Ubuntu ) can be installed. Well, this is the third time I am reformatting the micro-sd card.

Instructions were clear at miniand.com forum about it, but I thought to use some of my extra knowledge which I attained. Turns out its quite a common mistake

The error the android system throws out is Damaged SD Card which means we did the same silly mistake of not following the instructions

sudo dd if=lubuntu-desktop-12.04-4-1080p-1GB-miniand.com.img of=/dev/rdisk9 bs=1m

Note the “r” before “disk1” - this makes the process faster (Noted in the forum link above)

This will create 2 partitions under your /dev/disk9 which is your SD card.

Alt+F2 -> lxterminal Source Well, I could not see the screen

If you don’t see anything on your screen except a mouse pointer, it could be that your resolution did not fit exactly, you need to adjust your settings accordingly.

If you were trying to modify the password using sudo passwd and the root password does not change, may be its a sign that you are too stupid to admit you are sleepy at 3 in the morning( or there could be a problem with the file system and might require a reboot)

Next Steps: http://launchintolinux.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/six-things-to-do-after-installing-lubuntu/

TODO: A Pic of the screen and the device should be updated.