The weather has been nice in Everett, WA lately and I captured this picture on one such day. More here:
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Peekaboo with the sky
Dileepa Prabhakar
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New Wordpress theme & logo refresh!
Dileepa Prabhakar
I’ve changed my WordPress theme to P2 — P2 is a WordPress theme with Gmail-like keyboard shortcuts. I’ve also refreshed the logos that I use on various online services. Have a look!
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DigitalPersona 4 and Firefox 3.5
Dileepa Prabhakar
HP recently made DigitalPersona 4 (4.0) fingerprint management software available for download on it’s support website. This version of DigitalPersona resolves two important issues with the software:
- DigitalPersona 4 is compatible with Windows Internet Explorer 8
- DigitalPersona 4 works great on Windows 7 (Release Candidate)
Grab the 32-bit version here and the 64-bit version here.
DigitalPersona 4 is also compatible with Firefox 3.0.x, but they weren’t prepared for Firefox 3.5, which has been in a long beta & RC phase and was released today. And now Firefox 3.5 reports that DigitalPersona 4 is incompatible with it.
Now, I use the fingerprint login capability provided by DigitalPersona extensively and didn’t want to miss out either on this feature or on using Firefox 3.5. I had been using Firefox 3.5 pre-release versions with extension compatibility checker disabled, but didn’t feel like doing that with the release version.
So I set out to see if I could get DigitalPersona 4 to work with Firefox 3.5 and I didn’t disappoint myself
.Here’s what you should do to get it to work:
- Close all open Firefox windows.
- Open an elevated Command Prompt and navigate to the DigitalPersona Firefox extension folder (type command in Command Prompt):
cd %programfiles%\DigitalPersona\Bin\FirefoxExt\
- Open install.rdf in WordPad (type command in Command Prompt):
write install.rdf
- Change <em:maxVersion>3.1.*</em:maxVersion> to <em:maxVersion>3.5.*</em:maxVersion>
- Make a note of the <em:id> value – it was {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} on my computer.
- Save and exit WordPad
Update: Turns out there is an easy way to package this modified DigitalPersona Firefox extension and reinstall it in Firefox 3.5. Follow instructions in the highlighted post here and skip the steps listed below.
- Navigate to your Firefox profiles folder (type command in Command Prompt):
cd %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
- If you have multiple Firefox profiles set up, you will find a number of sub folders here. But for most users, there should be just a single folder in the following format: <random_characters>.default. Navigate to that folder (type command in Command Prompt):
cd *.default
- Open extensions.rdf in WordPad (type command in Command Prompt):
write extensions.rdf
- Search for DigitalPersona Extension. Four lines below that, you should find something like this <NS1:targetApplication RDF:resource=”rdf:#$GyBtJ”/>. Note the RDF:resource value.
- Scroll back up to the top of the file, place your mouse pointer on the first line and search for rdf:#$GyBtJ (i.e., the RDF:resource value you noted down in the previous step).
- Ensure that the NS1:id in the next line matches with <em:id> noted from install.rdf above.
- Change NS1:maxVersion=”3.1.*” to NS1:maxVersion=”3.5.*”
- Save and exit WordPad
- Restart Windows and resume browsing in Firefox 3.5, now with DigitalPersona 4 fingerprint login enabled!
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Spider waiting for its prey
Dileepa Prabhakar
P1030153, originally uploaded by Dileepa Prabhakar.A spider makes its home on a plant, waiting for its prey. There were bees & other insects buzzing around, but none landed in the spider’s web.
But tomorrow is another day!
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Pathway on the backyard
Dileepa Prabhakar
P1030151, originally uploaded by Dileepa Prabhakar.
It’s spring time in Seattle-Everett. The sun was out over the weekend and I decided to set foot outside the house into the backyard. Yeah… I am lazy!
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Quote for the day: 20090421
Dileepa Prabhakar
Even the path to nowhere leads you somewhere.
–DTDH
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When the 'bailout' didn't go according to plan!
Dileepa Prabhakar
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7825584.stm
A US businessman facing financial problems has apparently faked his own death by bailing out of his plane and letting it crash in a Florida swamp. A rescue operation was launched when Marcus Schrenker made a distress call saying his plane's windscreen had imploded and he was bleeding.
1) Two military planes were scrambled and they found Mr Schrenker's plane flying on autopilot, with its door open and no sign of the pilot.
2) Investigators said the wreckage showed no signs of blood or a smashed windshield.He should have planned his 'bailout' better!
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Hello Brothers!
Dileepa Prabhakar
P1020828: Fellow planets: Venus & Jupiter, originally uploaded by Dileepa Prabhakar.
Venus & Jupiter.
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Beach football!
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P1020902: Play ball!, originally uploaded by Dileepa Prabhakar.
Aade beach, Maharashtra, India.
Local kids having a splash kicking the football we had carried along with us.
More pictures from the trip here:
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Mumbai Terror: Dismantle the Congress kingdom
Dileepa Prabhakar
Maharashtra Deputy CM’s statement, originally uploaded by Dileepa Prabhakar.
We know that politicians in India are heartless, but this is a new low. Maharashtra Deputy CM R R Patil, in a press conference on Saturday, said the following:
"One or two such incidents keep happening in big cities. They (terrorists) came to kill 5,000 people but we ensured minimal damage."
There are so many things wrong with that statement.
1. Does he thinks we should get used to this because "one or two such incidents keep happening in big cities". Of course he does! He doesn’t suffer. He has Z-class security. It’s the common man that suffers. And we all know how much our politicians care for the common man.
2. For him, the 200+ lives that the terrorists took is "minimal damage". How heartless and irresponsible of him to say that.
3. And what exactly did he or his government do to prevent the terrorists from killing 5000+ people? The state government was clueless, the state police were clueless. The only reason the death count is _only_ 200+ is because the terrorists DIDN’T kill more. And believe me, they would have killed more if they had a chance to!
4. Does he even understand that the scale of damage goes far beyond the damaged buildings?
The problem goes far beyond the state government. The central government coalition is lead by the same political party: the Indian National Congress, Congress for short. The number of terror attacks in India this year alone is so many, any other country would have reacted with some seriousness. Not so in India. And the blame rests entirely on the central government.
Our Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is an intellectual. But he’s no leader. He was a great Finance Minister, but he has been a terrible Prime Minister. His speech on the day of the Mumbai terror attack was the low point of his tenure as the PM. It was uninspiring, to put it mildly.
The fact that R R Patil has not been asked to resign shows how ineffective Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, is. She’s as clueless as the rest of them, even more so if anyone can be! The now ex-Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, was a minister _only_ because he had the backing of Sonia Gandhi.
She’s the chief of the Congress party by default — it’s dynastic rule over there.
In a democratic India, the Congress party is the last remaining kingdom. It’s time this kingdom was dismantled.
Sri 01:00 on January 15, 2009 Permalink |
And now he’s being prosecuted for attempted murder!
Never fake anything in life!
Abdul Majeed 21:07 on February 27, 2009 Permalink |
…he didn’t do it on 9/11?