Archive for May 2008
On dealing with rogue swami’s
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 30, 2008
Got this on Bau’s blog. Very interesting
Guruji recently wrote an article which was published in various parts in many newspapers around the country… however not one newspaper published it in its entirety… I dont like to edit anything Guruji says so here it is, complete and unabridged…
By H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankar
Fraudulent and unethical [...]
A date with a sage
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 27, 2008
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Vinay was in the ashram for the weekend and he forwarded me this excerpt. Amazing knowledge really .
About 100 YES!+ members had an outstanding evening with
Rishi Vidyadhar ji in Ashram, this Sunday… Like a bath near the origin of Ganges, we got soaked in fresh, rejuvenating and sparkling knowledge, that was so freely flowing from [...]
My day today (22 May)
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 22, 2008
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As usual, woke up today morning stunned looking at the watch it was 830 …(I decided to get up at 630 to solve a 9×9 matrix by a method called Gaussian Elimination….. ). My mentor had asked me come early today and submit the solutions as he wanted to discuss them with the [...]
Linux Counter
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 19, 2008
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Hi if you are using any distro of Linux at home / work please register yourself at the Linux Counter.
http://counter.li.org
.docx in Linux
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 19, 2008
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Hi.
Files with a .docx extension are files of MS Office 2007. It appears in the form of an archive in most Linux systems today.To view and edit these files in OpenOffice.org,you need to install the OpenXML Translator on your system.You can download the odf converter rpm from http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/OpenOffice-org-OpenXML-Translator-Download-30751.html and save [...]
YUM updates – how to
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 18, 2008
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Its really easy to update packages with YUM. YUM starts its update service as soon as you log into Linux,which shows all the available updates . You can go through the list and deselect the unnecessary packages .This is really troublesome because Fedora updates all its packages in really less time and if you do [...]
Meeting with Bawa
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 18, 2008
Met Bawa today at someones residence in Bawdhan. I wanted to meet him since the past 2 days ,but for some reason or the other couldnt do so(One of them – my vehicle being confiscated by the traffic police for parking in the NO PARKING zone on FC road. …..;) …. took a lot of [...]
A classy illusion
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 16, 2008
I read this on bau and dineshs blog: http://bawandinesh.blogspot.com
The Squares marked A and B are exactly the same colour!!!
To check this out, just copy paste the image into any image software(GIMP,KolourPaint or MSPaint)… then cut paste a tiny part of square A into a new window, and then copy paste a tiny part of square [...]
The internet archive and the wayback machine
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 16, 2008
A library that archives the internet…
The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web and multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this archive includes “snapshots of the World Wide Web” (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, [...]
The Runge Kutta 4th order Algorithm
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 15, 2008
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I am doing an intern at Zeus Numerix where I have to simulate motion of an artillery missile fired from a launch vehicle.After doing the dynamics part of the analysis we get a series of second order differential equations which are solved by the Runge – Kutta method.
The Runge-Kutta algorithm is the magic formula [...]
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