http://sharma-home.net/blog We have opinions Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:45:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Trying to use voice recognition on my android phone might make my blog exceed 140 characters. There you have it. The app actually works. Punctuation done manually. http://sharma-home.net/blog/gadgets/android-wordpress Motorola H15 is a headset with not so bad reviews - so I decided to get a "New OEM in bulk" piece from buy.com. It looks like motorola is dumping a bunch of refurbished headsets as "OEM in bulk" and "new". These things arrive in a plastic pouch, with bare minimum ... http://sharma-home.net/blog/gadgets/stay-away-from-buy-com-motorola I kinda like ರಾಮಾಚಾರಿ. --Chirag after watching ನಾಗರಹಾವು I liked the part where he breaks the pots and messes up the garden of the girl who teased him! http://sharma-home.net/blog/kids/%e0%b2%a8%e0%b2%be%e0%b2%97%e0%b2%b0%e0%b2%b9%e0%b2%be%e0%b2%b5%e0%b3%81 A Chinese official today said: “effective guidance of public opinion on the Internet is an important way of protecting the security of online information” I think this quote has the potential to be remembered for a long time to come. http://sharma-home.net/blog/politics/notable-quotes My 1080p capable LCD monitor was not playing nicely with a netbook (Acer 1410) HDMI output when running Ubuntu 9.10. Turns out that I had to run xrandr --prop Apart from telling me what X thinks about the hardware, it also gets my monitor to start working properly. Thought I'd blog it, before ... http://sharma-home.net/blog/gadgets/netbook-hdmi-and-acer-x233h You've probably heard the jokes about Indian police and how they always arrive late and make fools of themselves, just like in Bollywood movies. Same goes for the judicial system. Take for example, the most recent case of Ruchika Girhotra. Google news counts more than 1000 articles on this topic. Obviously, ... http://sharma-home.net/blog/india/how-honest-are-the-indian-media People have been writing all kinds of stuff about the big stories of 2009. Even though this article in nytimes doesn't say so, I think this is probably the biggest story of 2009. Along with that, the ability of the US govt to prevent the flight of capital (or ... http://sharma-home.net/blog/economy/big-stories-of-2009 Are you looking to study the life of the Indian community in San Francisco bay area? Look no further than this thread! http://sharma-home.net/blog/general/life-as-a-desi-in-the-bay-area Due to a server side misconfiguration, outgoing mails were bouncing for sometime. I identified the culprit to be: /etc/hosts: ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain After I fixed it, there was more collateral damage. A large number of subscribers were marked as "nomail" (i.e. delivery disabled due to excessive bounces). I didn't see an easy way of ... http://sharma-home.net/blog/open-source/mailman-list-management-flip-nomail-bit In spite of a large number of problem reports, Honda doesn't seem to be doing anything about it. My dealer hit me with the same problem on a 2004 odyssey with 70k miles. http://sharma-home.net/blog/general/honda-odyssey-engine-mounts