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I recently bought this "car camera" as a cheesy way to get a decent sized display at a cheaper price. Most searches for displays for IoT/making end up in touch enabled puny screens, which are 3-10x the price of this entire unit. I don't care for touch, so I was happy to just "salvage" the display from this combo & the camera just becomes a bonus. However, giving it a try, I found out that it's a rather nice unit that works beautifully with minimal configuration as a closed circuit camera system, and it's pretty cheap for that purpose. I'm actually considering getting a few of them, and set up a full monitoring system. I'm just day dreaming about it in peace & quiet, meanwhile dad saw it & passed a comment: "Oh, is it a CCTV? does it record?" *Thanks dad, thanks a lot!* I thought... but "yeah, you can just use a DVR (and 'repurpose' the monitor muhaha)" is what I s...

12:30AM last night, gotten done with the meetings & calls - almost worn off - I was about to get my dinner & call it a day (for such long of a day it was). But what do you know! Got summoned by my Ingress faction for a call of duty - awkwardly eccentric, insanely probabilistic, extremely difficult, and yet immensely confidential task that needs to get done exactly at 4:30 in the morning, at a place 3hrs by road. Hence, I grabbed my gears & rushed for the pick up (with a couple of bread-slices in my pocket; because, Dinner) - and there's no looking back. In simple words - it was a covert operation of ~16 Ingress Agents, to transport an artifact (#2) from the origin portal in Bangalore to the destination portal at Mahabaleshwar (then undisclosable) - lots on XMs were spilled in the process & to defy the Resistance's effort to... well, resist - the process... & keeping it under Enlightened-control, strategically (12hrs) & effectively (4hrs). ...

Disclaimer: This isn't a full course meal on the topic - just the main course. I'm concentrating on the low-hanging fruits here & ignoring stuffs which require excessive amount of warnings without significant impact. In case you're interested about the ignored bits - you may wanna check this blog that covers some of those parts: http://www.harald-hoyer.de/2013/11/13/fedora-boot-optimization/ Update 2: Reviewing the Fedora 20 change-sets , I have a feeling that although following is a generic way of optimizing Fedora startup - there are so many radically awesome changes inbound with Heisenbug , that you should definitely consider a fresh install to get rid of many ghosts of the past (if you can afford to). To start with I recently (yesterday) performed a fresh install of Fedora 20 on my test-rig & then onward, rebooting my other system appeared to be considerably slower (compared to it). This is a system on which Fedora 17 was initially installed & th...

Claimed to be the largest Mozilla hosted event , Mozilla Festival is the place for creative-developers to share & show-off. With that being said, I've had the pleasure to attain MozFest 2012 at London, last November - allow me to share the joy ! Looking back, the entire event has so many tales to tell - but, as most of them are best told over a coffee - I won't take you through all the trivial details here - rather, let's just get down with the facts: