As I have posted earlier, I been lending through Kiva.org for about 2.5 years now. Recently, I reached a landmark of 50 loans. These are some of the stats. There are more stats and info if you are interested @ http://www.kiva.org/lender/vidur3752 The interesting things to me are: I have no defaults till date and I [...]
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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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After reading a few blogs and praises of Chrome I decided to give it a try. The one reason was that Firefox, my current browser, seems to take ever increasing amount of memory as the day progress and makes my notebook sluggish. This is my experience with Chrome on a Windows XP notebook. I downloaded [...]
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I have read a series of “green” articles in last week or so. The first is my favorite, “Whisky Power! Distillery Unveils Scotch Green Power” and I’ll drink to that We pretty sure that the expression “drunk on power” was never meant to be taken this literally. Recently the Rothes consortium of whisky and scotch [...]
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When I Take a long time to finish,I am slow,When my boss takes a long time,he is thorough When I don’t do it,I am lazy,When my boss does not do it,he is busy, When I do something without being told,I am trying to be smart,When my boss does the same,he takes the initiative, When I [...]
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This is a conversation that took place between (Y) and a marketing guy(X) X: Which shaving cream do you use?Y: Baba’s X: Which aftershave do you use?Y: Baba’s X: Which deodorant do you use?Y: Baba’s X: Which toothpaste do you use?Y: Baba’s X: Which shampoo do you use?Y: Baba’s X: Which socks do you use?Y: [...]
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There is a virus being passed around electronically, orally, and by hand. This virus is called Worm-Overload-Recreational-Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from any of your colleagues, your boss, or anyone else via any means, pl DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should come into contact [...]
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1- Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. 2- Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. 3- Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation. Now, watch this If they are counting the bricks…Put [...]
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