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Carrier cyclojet Air conditioner review
Recently carrier has launched a split AC with redesigned outdoor unit. This series is called Ester+ with cyclojet technology. It has cylindrical shape outdoor unit that intakes air from cylindrical surface and discharges hot air from fan on top. Outdoor unit takes quite lesser space compared to conventional outdoor AC units. But this design adds […]
Day picnic at Damdama Lake near Gurgaon
Gurgaon, a suburb located in south of Delhi is home to many MNCs and has attracted many professional migrants from all over India. With more inflow of capital and rise in purchasing power number of unknown and hidden destinations have now shined up as weekend attraction. Damdama lake is one of such venue. Damdama is […]
Linux High availability quick setup
Consider two Linux machines: Active machine heart beat IP: 192.168.1.1 Passive machine heart beat IP: 192.168.1.2 Virtual/Floating IP 192.168.2.11 Install heartbeat software on active and passive machines manish@active-mc:~$ aptitude install heartbeat manish@passive-mc:~$ aptitude install heartbeat Get node names of both machines manish@active-mc:~$ uname -n active-mc manish@passive-mc:~$ uname -n passive-mc On Active host do following Configure […]
Easy tandoori chicken recipe
Ingredients: 1) One whole chicken 700gm to 800gm without skin and fat. 2) 3/4 cup curd. 3) 1.5 tpsp ajwain. 4) salt to taste. 5) red chilly powder to taste. 6) 1 tbsp turmeric power. 7) 1 tbsp chat masala. 8) 1/2 tbsp green cardamon powder. 9) 2 tsbp ginger garlic paste. 10) 1 […]
SSL certificate for websites and other applications
In order to obtain SSL certificate you have generate certificate signing request file(CSR) and a private key. Then you send CSR file to signing authority who will then generate and deliver SSL certificate using CSR file. Never leak out private key to anyone, not even signing authority. CSR holds information like domain name, country, city, […]
Rishikesh – Destination for camping and rafting
Rishikesh is one of the preferred destination for rafting in India. Located about 300 km north from Delhi, Rishikesh is a Hindu religious town. Main Rishikesh town is destination for pilgrims and if you go 25-30 km up in the hills, at Shivpuri and marine drive, it is favorite destination for adventure sports lovers. We […]
Sariska – a short weekend break from Gurgaon, Delhi
Sariska is about 180 km from Gurgaon. It is well connected via highways. We started around 8 in the morning via Sohna-Nuh-Alwar road and reached there around 12:00 noon. Every Saturday and Tuesday National part is open for private vehicles to visit Temple at Pandupole with in National park. At the entrance you have to […]
SQLite Basic tutorial
SQLite is a relational database management system contained in a C programming library. In contrast to other database management systems, SQLite is not implemented as a separate process that a client program running in another process accesses. Rather, it is part of the using program. SQLite is ACID-compliant and implements most of the SQL standard, […]
Amazing Goa – just before peak season
After a long wait we planned for our first beach holidays. And without any second thought Goa was the destination for us. My family along with two more families of my office colleagues were on trip. In total three couples and five kids between 2-6 year of age. We started on 20th Sept 2014 with […]
Gita Jayanti “Saras mela” festival Kurukshetra
I visited Gita Jayanti festival this year. Festival is organized by KDB at bramhsarovar. Gita Jayanti is the birthday of Bhagvad Gita, the sacred text of the Hindus. It is celebrated on the Shukla Ekadasi, 11th day of the waxing moon of Margashirsha month (November-December) in the Hindu calendar. It is believed the “Bhagavad Gita” […]