By Pratik Sinha on October 1, 2009
Google Friend Connect (GFC) is a great tool to build a community around a website. Last week, I thought it was finally time I got cracking on my wife’s website. The website is getting good traction and I can see from Google Analytics stats that the number of returning visitors is increasing. I thought it was the ideal time to integrate GFC. I followed the standard procedure as stated on Google’s Friend Connect Page – setting preferences, generating the code and integrating it into the wordpress theme – but all I got was an Empty Blue Bar.
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By Pratik Sinha on September 17, 2009
Is Firefox in Linux too slow for you? Does the new Places/URL/Location bar keep freezing every time you try writing something in it? I have had this issue consistently since I upgraded from Firefox 2.x to Firefox 3.0.
I tried googling the issue a zillion times and tried several solutions I found on various forums and blogs but all efforts amounted to naught. Damn, I felt defeated. I finally resigned and reverted to the old URL bar.
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By Pratik Sinha on June 8, 2009
By default, all snmp retries are transmitted at the same interval. However, we don’t want that to happen when the client is on a vpn connection or the network is flaky and the responses to snmp requests reach later than the timeout period. In such cases, we would want an increasing timeout value to accommodate snmp entities which cannot respond within the timeout interval.
Does that sound too complicated? In fact, this can be done very easily. Here’s a little tip.
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