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		<title>OpenSuse 11.2 on Sony Vaio NS25G: Internal Microphone HOW-TO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my fresh OpenSuse 11.2 setup, the VAIO inbuilt speakers worked well, but the internal mic did not seem to capture. KRecord and Skype did not pick the microphone inputs. Much tinkering and several days later&#8230; My initial suspect of pulse-audio being broken was wrong. The following fix worked: Dig into the Sound card hardware: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roshankulkarni.info/2010/05/internal-microphone-on-opensuse-11-2-sony-vaio-ns-25g/</link>
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		<title>Another Linux quickie &#8211; Determine your Linux distribution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find myself staring at a remote shell, not knowing what Linux distribution the box is running. There does not seem to be any uname like universal command for this. Here are a few files to try: OpenSuse: cat /etc/SuSE-release cat /etc/issue Debian and it&#8217;s variants: cat /etc/debian_version RedHat: cat/etc/redhat-release Slackware: cat /etc/slackware-version And this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roshankulkarni.info/2010/05/another-linux-quickie/</link>
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		<title>Penguin Notes: LCD Brightness, Firefox Annoyances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few notes to self, trying to make my new OpenSuse desktop more hospitable. Annoyance 1: The laptop brightness controls did not adjust the brightness on KDE 4 running on OpenSuse 11.2. (They worked on Ubuntu Jaunty earlier). Neither could I find brightness sliders anywhere in KDE panels. This helped: 1 $ xbacklight -set 70 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roshankulkarni.info/2010/05/penguin-notes-lcd-brightness-firefox-annoyances/</link>
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		<title>Referencing Spring Managed Beans from Non-Spring Java Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I encountered the need to reference Spring managed beans from legacy Java code (i.e. Java code which is not managed by Spring). An ideal approach is to avoid mixed-mode code and Spring&#8217;ify everything. But that&#8217;s not always an option in reality. Legacy projects could have a incremental migration to Spring. Another option is to instantiate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roshankulkarni.info/2010/05/referencing-spring-managed-beans-from-non-spring-java-code/</link>
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		<title>The holy grail of search!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently came across this article in the feb edition of wired magazine &#8211; how big G! keeps it&#8217;s search algorithms ticking. Every year, tens of tweaks are rolled out to the core search algorithms. Invisible to casual observers like us (And you thought doodles were the only thing their search team has been busy with). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roshankulkarni.info/2010/03/the-holy-grail-of-search/</link>
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		<title>Setting up an Apache2 Virtual Host for a Subdomain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done this several times before, so noting it for my own quick reference. This might be of help to others finding their way around Apache deployments. I&#8217;ve tried this on a Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) with Apache2. Here is what we are trying to setup: Subdomain for your web project: http://mysubdomain.mydomain.com (say, http://staging.mykillerapp.com) You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roshankulkarni.info/2009/09/setting-up-apache2-virtual-host-for-your-project/</link>
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		<title>Generating Unique Ids in PHP &#8211; A scheme for UUIDs generation in a distributed application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently involved with a project which had 4 nodes running PHP code and a sharded MySQL database in the backend. The PHP nodes create data objects in a distributed manner and then persist them to the database shards. Now, each object needs a unique identifier (key). MySQL auto-increment Ids could not be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roshankulkarni.info/2009/09/generating-uuids-in-php-a-scalable-scheme-for-generating-unique-identifiers-in-a-distributed-php-application/</link>
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