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October 2008

I want this in Python

Friday, 31st October 2008 — lut4rp


lut4rp: ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
69 sudo
58 ls
44 cd
19 lsl
15 git
15 aptitude
13 lsa
12 grep
10 emacs
9 rm

(this is for my new install, just a month old.)

Back from Thomso '08

Monday, 27th October 2008 — lut4rp

I came back home from IIT Roorkee today morning after a really, really tiring Thomso 2008 (their cultural fest). I had an awesome time there,
hanging around the campus and interacting with a whole lot of IIT students (courtesy my best friend Nitish, who is doing his B.Tech. Electronics from there). Its weird because people there seem as dumb as us, when *ahem* they are not :-P

We took the bus to IIT on 23rd evening and it took us freaking 8 hours to reach Roorkee, as people wanted to stop for food/tea/nonsense after
every kilometer. But we did reach in time for the Battle Of Bands event (Hindi group rock) in which I had to participate, just to find out we were number 25 on the list :o Lots of bands there were simply awesome and had really good original compositions. We band members barely slept the first 48 hours, the result of which was that I slept most of the day on Friday. Apart from that, the campus was very beautiful, but it got *brrr* cold in the night. We stayed at Govind Bhawan (which is the largest boys hostel). I came to know that a particular boys hostel called the Jawahar Bhawan is the most demanded one, since it sits smack in front of one of the girls hostel ;-)

Overall, I'd say the event was ok. Not really good, but yeah, fine. There were problems with the management, some with the audio systems, some popular events clashed with each other leading to confusion. Of course, its understandable that the campus and fest were spread out over a large area, but there could have been better efforts. In fact, even the IIT students agreed that it wasn't up to the mark, Thomso '07 was better.

I had a fun time anyway (good break to leave my sucked college behind!) though I did miss a couple of people from college. Prestorika was simply awesome on the last day during the English rock event (Wargasm). They covered Metallica, Iron Maiden and Megadeath, and their own track 'Not My Way'. As always, its fun being a part of a large mix of people and forget we have to go back to our own lives as well... sheesh!

Photos here: http://flickr.com/photos/pratulkalia/tags/thomso08/

Fixing the irritating Apache 2 warning

Friday, 10th October 2008 — lut4rp

For all those who have been using Apache 2 on a localhost on a Linux distro, there's this weird (and very irritating) warning that one gets whenever the Apache server is started or stopped.
Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

The address you get here might vary, but the error persists. Here's how to fix it -

* Open /etc/apache2/apache2.conf in your favourite text editor.
* Find the line that says ServerRoot "/etc/apache2"
* Add another line below it ServerName "localhost"
* Restart Apache server.
* Heave a sigh of relief from that darn irritant.

NOTE: This is valid only if you are running Apache on a localhost. If you're running it for a different domain, you'll probably need to replace localhost with your host name.