Google Code provides a free collaborative development environment for open source projects. It has everything thats required for project hosting;  SVN/Mercurial repository for code hosting, Wiki for documentation, an Issue Tracker for Bug reports and a Downloads area so that you don’t need to host the packages on your personal website. There are alternatives to Google Code like SourceForge, Savannah etc, but Google Code according to me is the most responsive and simplistic. I have created/adopted a couple wordpress themes which I have been wanting to upload to Google Code for a long time, but haven’t gotten down to doing it partly due to laziness and partly due to lack of time.
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I recently moved to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam from the US of A. There’s a lot different between the two countries – the people, the culture. I am throughly enjoying my stay in this city, the social life is rocking, the food is amazing and the people are very nice. However, there are a few things I do miss about the US of A and one of those things being the blazing fast Internet speeds.Continue reading

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 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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