http://www.ezran.org/blog Ezra -ez- Nugroho's blog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:19:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An interesting reading I got this morning was about a small town of 700 in Australia, Lajamanu, that had an interesting rain. A fishy rain! While quite freaky, apparently fish rain is not too rare, a documentary video below accounts about 600 occurrence in a year. The interesting thing about this one is that the nearest [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-fish-literally/ Many Subversion (svn) users are jumping the wagon to the coolest new kid in the source code management tool block, Git. Git does provide a lot of improvements over svn, but it can be very unintuitive at times. These two are more different than they are alike, so it’s just wouldn’t work to simply use git [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/03/git-resources-for-svn-users/ Last night I downloaded the latest VMWare Server from Vmware website, it was version 2.0.2. I needed it because I was trying to experiment with several Open Office server solution, and I need to simulate tiered environment. First attempt to install it in my Kubuntu 9.10 host, running kernel 2.6.31-16-generic-pae didn’t work, VMWare server fails [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/vmware-server-2-0-2-on-ubuntu-9-10/ I was looking for my exact username in Sourceforge, so I searched for ‘ezra.’ Look what I found: an open source project named after me! http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezra/ I know, I know… It was probably not named after this pompous and megalomaniac Ezra… ]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/ezra-at-sourceforge/ One of the rather bizarre classes I took during college was called ‘Spiritual Care and Healing‘. No, it wasn’t a religious class, but it was certainly a spiritual one. In it, I learned things like drawing with your eyes closed, writing with your non-dominant hand, journaling for health, imagining white blood cells as members of elite [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2010/02/koan-10-5-x-4/ New Year Eve happens every year, but a Blue Moon New Year Eve only happens once in twenty years. No, the moon will not turn blue. But the moon will shine brightly, for it will be a full moon; the second one in the month! Tomorrow is such a night, guys! How special is that!! May I [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/12/once-in-a-new-year-blue-moon/ http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/11/happy-for-kubuntu-910/ This morning I was thinking about people that I am indebted to, possibly forever. Linus Torvalds is definitely one, not just because of the kernel, but also because he is a good role model. In terms of tools, I am certainly indebted to Joseph H. Allen, for his own editor. I also thought of ‘grep’ as a [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/10/better-than-grep-ack/ No! I will not claim that I have the code for you! But I sure know where you can find it. Here: A simple unix/linux daemon in python. I tried it when I was trying to daemonize a my python program that reads and processes emails. Works like a charm. Thanks a lot Sander Marechal!! ]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/09/python-daemon-code/ It’s often said that for recorded artists to have really made it if Weird Al Yankovic has make a parody of their works. Weird Al’s selection on a parody source is a recognition that the tunes of the original work has sunk in to the subconscious ears of most Americans. Otherwise the parody will not [...]]]> http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/08/highlight-of-the-day-ive-been-plagiarized/