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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

I got a strange spam today


Today, just a few minutest ago, I got this mail in my CSE inbox.



Obviously this is a spam. But something else made me curious. This mail says I need to contact someone called Frank. What is more interesting is, just the previous day, I was Googling a lot about FRank, a learning based ranking algorithm. Is this mere coincidence or there is something else?

Friday, August 27, 2010

Full day break

Today I got an unexpected off day. Early in the morning my phone rang. I woke up, talked sweet for some time and then went to sleep again. Like all the other people in nearby rooms, I have caught cold too. So, going to sleep did not seemed to be an bad idea. I turned the alarm clock off... I was close to the alarm time anyway so I became over confident.

Overconfidence never pays. When I woke up again it was 10:55. I had a lecture from 11:00. At that point of time, I had two options:
  1. Abandon all natural things you do when you wake up and RUSH to the school
  2. Be natural! and abandon the lecture
Obviously I choose the second option. With toothbrush in my mouth I awakened up my computer. There was one email from another Prof. that audit people need not attend the afternoon quiz.

Voila!!! I had a full day break.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Setting up PHP within Apache Tomcat

PHP by default comes with Apache web server. But when we tried using PHP at our server we faced problem. The reason was we already use Apache Tomcat and Tomcat already uses port 80.

We needed to install PHP within Tomcat. We needed one additional software: PHP Java Bridge for that.

We were lucky to see one nice tutorial on the web. It almost spoon-feeds.