It has almost been a year since I started lending at Kiva.org and it would be fair to say I can come a long way. The most interesting change that Kiva folks made during this time is that instead of crediting the loan repayments to lender’s account at the end of loan term, they do [...]
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I am sure half the world knows this but I having been using pine at work on the servers. I recently moved from Windows to Fedora 8 as my work-station OS and wanted pine. This is when I came to know that I am supposed to use alpine instead of pine now These are instructions [...]
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I use VNC regularly and for quite a while I struggled with the fact that I could copy from my VNC window to my PC. Finally, I had a breakthrough couple of weeks ago. This is what should work: – logon to your VNC session – open a terminal window (like Xterm) – type ‘vncconfig [...]
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Well, there something about a rainbow that makes me feel like a kid and puts a big smile on my face. Now, I have seen a rainbow for 2 consecutive days and I took some snaps. These are from my iPhone so not very clear but do capture all the colors and its beauty. These [...]
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