Shantibhushan Naik

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Russian Peasant Multiplication

Start by writing the two numbers to be multiplied at the head of two columns. Then they repeatedly divide the number in the left column by two (dropping any remainder) and double the number in the right column, writing the two new numbers immediately below their predecessors, until the number in the left column is one. Then they cross out all rows where the number in the left column is even, and add the remaining numbers in the right column, which is the desired product.

For instance, the product eighteen times twenty-three is found like this.

Programming Praxis: Russian Peasant Multiplication – The Daily WTF.

2009/07/23
Learn More : Longer videos – YouTube Help

Ouch! And I was on my way to use Youtube as the only video sharing too. Duh! What was I thinking?

Maybe now is the time to start hosting your own videos.

Learn More : Longer videos – YouTube Help.

“You can no longer upload videos longer than ten minutes regardless of what type of account you have. Users who had previously been allowed to upload longer content still retain this ability, so you may occasionally see videos that are longer than ten minutes.”

2009/07/21
Amrita talks over phone

If you can understand what she said, do explain it to me too! 🙁

2009/07/14
Dell 5150c not noisy any longer

My desktop, a Dell Dimension 5150c, purchased about 3-4 years ago, was annoyingly noisy for a while. Last time when I changed the PSU, I thought the annoyance would go away. But it didn’t. The CPU fan, San Ace 80, was the main culprit. At sometimes (which was almost everytime) it used to power the CPU fan so loud, that to listen to music or watch a video, we had to pump up the volume to almost twice than usually should be.
Today I took up in my mind to replace it, and switched to a Kama-Flex.
Superbly quiet, about 2500 rpm, and cooling efficiency nothing comparable to the older one.
Was worth the try!

2009/07/11
Amrita rides on Chibi-chan

Another wonderful trip to Navel Park

And Amrita got to ride on her favorite horse – Chibi-ちゃん (chan).

And Mama too 🙂 Some videos of their ride –

Nicolas coming towards the camera –

And Amrita enjoying her time in the park (as usual) –

Hope you enjoyed the trip as well ;-D

2009/06/28
Eset Nod32 blocks Trusted zone IPs

Last whole week I was stumbled by the fact that my home network with 3 PCs suddenly stopped working. None of them were able to “see” each other, except for a little while… strange.
Technically (since it is easier to describe), A, B, C – my 3 computers – could reach each other, share files, host apache, download files without any extra configuration.
Last week, however while using C’s http server from A suddenly stopped. Puzzled, I thought the machine might be overloaded, or something like this must be causing page to timeout, or apache must have hanged (does it?). But things seemed to be working OK on C, in fact top showed a load average below 1 ?
Further puzzled, I tried pinging A to C, and vice-versa. It worked… but only for a while. Pinging after a while seemed to stop. Huh?
Scourging over the Internet wasn’t easy for answer. Maybe my way of searching was wrong, but I did spent a good week trying to fish out the ping issue, then next to dig deeper to find that accessing C’s IP from outside (it already has a global ip; though dynamic, paired through dyndns to the world) worked. Now each of them – A, B, C – have no internal 192.168 ip’s, just public ip’s. What good are public ip’s if I have to access them from outside than just sitting home?
Something was wrong.
To cut short, I called the ISP, asked them if they have changed anything recently (well, I was using A, B, C sharing files for over 6 months now). My ISP reported that no such upgrade, or settings were done. Deeply mad about this situation, I chose to disable the firewall (Eset Nod32) on A, and then tryout the ping – which worked effortlessly to C, and back.
What the hell! Why did Nod32 suddenly seem to block my own A, B, C from seeing each other? ARP Poisioning? I don’t know, only thing I know is that it shouldn’t block them. 🙂
Well, atleast things are fine now. I’ve changed settings on Nod32 to Not block threat detected addresses henceforth.

2009/06/27
Server upgraded to new Ubuntu 9.04 server

The website is up, and running on a brand new OS – Ubuntu 9.04 Server. Supercool to configure, has pre-configured LAMP, OpenSSH out-of-the-box.
Using the UFW was too easy than messing with iptables, or routing.
Feeling great having refreshed up my home server with a mature OS.

2009/06/27
Visit to Mahesh’s place in Nishi-kasai

We had a splendid day today! We were invited to Mahesh’s place in Nishi-kasai. Amrita, Nicolas enjoyed their playtime with little Vibha.

We feasted on an extremely delicious lunch prepared by Rajshri (Mahesh’s wife) – Puran Poli, with Amti. And not to mention, how tasty the Bhaji was… ahaha yummy!

The next was a well mixed dish of basmati rice with amti, one cannot describe it’s taste in words unless you eat it prepared from Rajshri’s hands once.

All of us really enjoyed the short visit to our friends, and we could really say our visit as greatly satisfying (and appetizing) despite of the gloomy, rainy day outside.

Some very funny moments, especially when Amrita, Nicolas decided to play with Mahesh, and Rajshri.

We do wish to visit our friend often, and see how Amrita, Vibha’s new friendship grows deeper. Nicolas with his unsatisfied appetite, was eating anything that came in the way of his mouth. Hope he doesn’t upset his stomach with this cocktail of apple juice, bhaji, snacks, rice, puran poli, milk, and vitamin water (phew!)

2009/06/27
A refreshing trip to Navel Park

A hot, sunny day – what could you do best? Rest indoors, or have fun outside in the park, right? Right. 🙂
Our trip to Navel Park was definitely worth shot on this day! Don’t believe me? Well… look for yourself –

Wasn’t it real fun?

2009/06/21
I hate such adverts

When i see such advertisements, it really infuriates me.

Are people so “dumb” as to expect this as something new offerred during Golden Week holidays in Japan? In today’s age, is there any ATM closed during holidays? Why then still make such catchy adverts claiming something already people expect, and present it as a beneficial service?

2009/05/25