RK's Rambling

Lets just face it, I like VirtualBox. I have used it in numerous occasions, back from the days when it was offered by Innotek, to Sun and now Oracle. Yeah it always was a less powerful than Vmware in some areas, but when i don't need them this was as good (or maybe sometimes better) than Vmware for my basic sandboxing needs! But sometimes I find myself in a problem which the GUI isn't always helpful for me. One of them is when in an active Virtual Machine I run out of diskspace. There are a number of ways to increase harddisk size without destroying your data, but most of them involve cloning or copying your data to a new vdi. Though they are also relatively painless I found a much more easier solution. Or rather a one liner The following command will operate on the VirtualBox virtual disk located at “C:\Users\rk\VirtualBox VMs\Windows 7\Windows 7.vdi”. It will resize the virtual disk to 21920 MB (20 GB). VBoxManage modifyhd “C:\Users\rk\VirtualBox VMs\Windows 7\Wi...

This documentary is prohibited to be displayed in most parts of Country (in India). Even JNU has kept mum on this one. Had to be shared somewhere. Then why not here. What happens in Gujarat and the Gujarat Model of Development...

Today I saw Sachin play for the last time. though an emotional blog post is due. For now I'll just be content with his words. And a few videos. “Friends please settle down, I’ll get more emotional. It’s hard to believe my wonderful journey is coming to an end, my life between 22 yards for 24 years has come to an end. I’ve a list of names to thank. The first is my father, who passed away in 1999. Without his guidance I wouldn’t be standing in front of you. He said ‘chase your dreams, don’t give up, the path will be difficult.’ I miss him today.  My mom, I don’t know how she managed a naughty child like me. She just prayed and prayed from the day I started playing the game. For four years I stayed with my uncle and aunt when in school, they treated me like their own son. My eldest brother Nitin doesn’t like to talk much but he said, whatever you do, I know you will give 100%. My first cricket bat was presented to me by my sister Savita. She still continues to fast while I ba...

I will be conducting a workshop on Advanced Python Programming on University Of Texas at Dallas on November 17th. Everyone is invited to participate. Registrations are taken at  UTD Marketplace . You can directly register for the event at here . This workshop will assume your familiarity with Python and Model View Controller architecture. I will be covering high level introductions and some basic concepts with a very popular python framework named Django. The session will be mostly a hands on where we will be building a dynamic scalable web app using python and Django. At the end of the session participants should have with them their first app. Recommended Pre-Requisites: It is recommended for the participants to have the following skillset to take full advantage of the session Familiarity with python (Participants are encouraged to attend the basic level session first) Knowledge about MVC  architecture Knowledge about basic HTML,Javas...

I will be conducting a workshop on Java DataBase Connecitivity (JDBC) programming on UTDallas on November 3rd. Everyone is invited to participate. What will be covered are - JDBC Introduction - JDBC Driver types and connections - JDBC Library and SQL syntax - JDBC Statements and Resultsets - JDBC Transactions - JDBC Stored Procedure - Examples and Applications - Intro to Hibernate ORM - Hibernate Configuration - Hibernate Sessions and Mapping - Examples You can get more info from http://www.utdallas.edu/k12/desc/#jdbc

So finally we have BBM for our Android and iOS devices. Well done BlackBerry! But then again you are stuck in the waiting list and losing your patience waiting fro that sweet invite. Well I see a lot of my friends in my friend-list getting stuck at that phase and even after more than 36 hours of the release I still see them getting nowhere. Hence I thought of giving them a heads up. Fortunately I myself didn't have to wait a single moment for the BBM invite. Actually i got the invite before I even installed the app, all courtesy to my friend in BlackBerry (yeah you deserve a "Biriyani" :D ) But for those who are still waiting. Try this neat little trick. This worked on a few mobiles I tried here. But be warned due to the nature of the trick this may stop working anytime. Install the BBM app, launch it, and then register your email address to join the waiting list. Return to your home screen and force close the app. Relaunch the BBM app. You should now be...