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30th June 2012

Auto mount NTFS partitions in Ubuntu in easy correct way

Modifying fstab manually has its own fears and thus I like ntfs-config to auto-mount NTFS partitions on Ubuntu. However, recent updates sometimes cause errors while running ntfs-config.

Fix for properly installing ntfs-config via AskUbuntu:

Install ntfs-config from the Software Center, then it's just a matter of choosing which drives to mount and if you want to also write to the drives.

Apparently ntfs-config crashes. To fix that you have to do this:

  sudo mkdir -p /etc/hal/fdi/policy

If you run ntfs-config, from the terminal you'll get an error about that directory which doesn't exist, …


30th June 2012

64 Investing Cliches and what they mean

Some interesting ones from the page:

It was a Black Swan event/Perfect Storm = I didn’t read that book but I did watch the George Clooney movie and I learned that you can’t ever blame me for mismanaging your money

Buy the rumor, sell the news = The only cliche on this list older than Warren Buffett; buy something as soon as you hear something might happen, sell it when the company confirms it’s happening

It passed our sniff-test = I asked another fund manager if he liked it. He said, yes.

The earnings were …


30th June 2012

Moving to Jekyll

Fully-Faltoo blog is now hosted on GitHub using Jekyll engine. Primary difference between traditional web-blogs (Wordpress, Tumblr or any other) and Jekyll is that Jekyll web-blog is a static blog. While in other engines, the page is generated dynamically on each request, Jekyll pages are pre-saved as HTML.

Why I love it?

Cause it gives all the customization in a very easy (hackable) way. I can use my favourite text-editor to write posts, I can use mark-down and using custom scripts I can publish posts in seconds.

Another major advantage is that it is YAML based. It …


11th June 2012

When a man tells?

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

George Bernard Shaw


10th June 2012

India according to a Delhi foodie


India According to Delhi Foodie [INFORGAPHIC]


3rd June 2012

Imagination vs. knowledge


3rd June 2012

Why birds don't fly?


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