A superb tool to see progress of file based job.

For example, to see progress of a MySQL import:
pv large_table.sql | mysql -u USER -p DATABASE

More here: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

Sunday morning - decided to step out. Started off with Bun-maska-chai at GoodLuck. We went to Pataleshwar caves on Jangli Maharaj road. This was my second visit but Shweta's first. She loved the trees in the complex.


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Stumbled across this great XKCD picture: http://xkcd.com/657/large/. The LoTR chart is awesome.

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The hard drive on my Thinkpad R51 failed. Tried Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD but it takes almost 6 minutes to start up. Some looking around and came across Puppy Linux. Its a very small, very fast Linux system designed to boot of CDs or USB sticks ( Read more... )

I had bought a book with Raja Ravi Verma's paintings around a year back. Recently Shweta "discovered" it - she even tried sketching some of the figures ( Read more... )

Here's a "kapsule" - a recording of a short talk made using the product I work on - kPoint.

The talk is about the Hotspot theory to explain mass extinctions. Just 9 minutes. Click the right-bottom button to go fullscreen.


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No. Its not in Unicode yet. But, there is a proposal and it has been approved as well. It should be included in the standard in a couple of years ( Read more... )

Went on a one-day study trip to the three ancient Buddhist caves near Pune on 29th November. Manjiri Bhalerao - our professor was with us.


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Many of us have watched the film by this name. I certainly like the word and its subtle meaning ( Read more... )

Back from an action packed trip from Shivpuri near Rishikesh. We did a 5 day basic kayaking course - See Katabatic. It was a once in a lifetime experience - the pictures tell the tale...


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