Replication to Github Enterprise with Gerrit

Even if you are a gerrit/git sysadmin having done a dozen code review setups already, you might get stumped with the ‘reject HostKey’ error when trying to replicate from Gerrit to a Github Enterprise instance. So this error stems from...

Multibooting Chrome OS on your Laptop

Other than the conventionally popular Windows and Mac OS, (and, among developers and geeks, Linux), one of the most popular operating systems for Netbooks and lightweight convertibles today is - Chrome OS. But if you have landed on this page,...

Doing a table join in Android without using rawQuery

Android has some really nice SQLite helper classes and methods. And the ones I like the most are the SQLiteDatabase.query, SQLiteDatabase.update, SQLiteDatabase.insert ones, because they take away quite a bit of pain for typing out SQL commands by hand. But...

Using NVIDIA Optimus switchable graphics with GTX 860M on Ubuntu 15.04

Right since NVIDIA named their switchable graphics solution as Optimus the whole graphics scene on Linux has been a veritable bedlam of Transformer names. I have been a fan of Bumblebee from the early stages of it’s development, and on...

Reimagining the PTO : A messenger and a friend

The acronym PTO, to most people from a generation, would mean the Post and Telegraph Office. The “messenger” of the nation (talking about India here) during the 80’s and 90’s when the modern India was being built. From Bollywood films...