Sunny Talks Tech

I love technology. Be it the smallest transistor or the latest solar power car, I love talking, reading and sharing about it. This blog is for sharing some of my loved tech talk with others of similar interests around the net.

Saturday, February 6, 2021

Tomcat9 on Ubuntu 20.04 and getting catalina.out

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Blogging after ages for something I haven't found from multiple web searches. Something that might be useful for others After you'v...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Running lh-toolkit 1.x on MySQL 5.7

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MySQL 5.7 by default uses sql_mode where no zero in dates or zero dates are allowed. Where as by default the timestamp uses 00:00:00. MySQL...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Representing OpenMRS at FOSS Asia 2016 in Singapore

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I missed the OpenMRS worldwide summit 2015 in Singapore because of problems with my visa application. The Singapore ICA rejected my visa...
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Thursday, July 10, 2014

OpenVZ node to be used as OpenVPN server

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In the past I’ve owned VPS instances so that they can be used as proxies to setup in-country applications. For instance, some country Minist...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Excellent service for monitoring servers using Nagios - Monguru

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I’ve been looking for ways to monitor servers for sometime. Most services charge way too much to automate monitoring multiple server. One c...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Windows Locked files in Jetty Maven Plugin

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If you are developing Java webapps using maven on Windows and using jetty:run to deploy, you have surely come across the problem when you ca...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Shout or Leave? - Open-source community governance

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I’ve often thought that open-source contributions are towards “social good”, but I also realize it is a fairly naïve way to look at the open...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

You Aint Virtualized Till You’ve Used Archipel

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I’ve setup a few virtualized environments starting from the good old Xen in 2004. Good web-based, remote management of the VMs has been a so...
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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Alter Table for column with Foreign key in MySQL 5.6 Fails

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Oracle released the much awaited MySQL 5.6 GA on 5th Feb, 2013. Much to everyone’s surprise and changing direction in some sense, lots of ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Opera to use Webkit engine

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Update: Brendan Eich made an interesting post about the fighting the monoculture and the web needs diversity . But I feel Gecko needs to in...
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Saptarshi Purkayastha
Assistant professor of health informatics at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Have been a tech enthusiast since my parents brought me my first computer some 25 years back. Wrote a flight simulation action game in BASIC when I was 12 yr old and since then have loved programming. Also have been assembling computers for the past 15 years and have opened every electronic equipment I have brought within the first 15 days. I love vedanta and understanding the human mind and beyond it. Have done Masters Degree in Bharatnatyam (Indian Classical Dance Form). If I wouldn't be a professional programmer/tech guy, then I would have been playing professional soccer.
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