A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
It’s a pain to search for Open Data on the web. I publish quite a bit of data. As you could see on the OpenBangalore. The data is in different formats and is at different urls. There is no easy way to find it other than going through the list. You can’t find...
They say Internet doesn’t forget anything. But link decay is very common on the web. The things that are visible today on web vanish tomorrow. Links become inaccessible and hence linkrot. But there are services like internet way back machine or archive.today which backup the web pages to find the content for rotten...
I am very happy that I came across this project and was able to contribute to it. Given the amount of data scraping I do, you can imagine how close this story is to my heart. Watch it on vimeo on demand if possible. You can download the cc licensed version using bittorrent...
Locus App allows offline sqlite format maps. I was always curious about the self-contained maps specially because I love sqlite. So last evening I selected a small area on Locus and asked it to download in SQLite format. This GIF should show you how to download the maps on locus for offline usage....
Well, At last I took that step a few days back. My raw genome data is out on internet. You can use it for educational, research and related stuff. Of course you can’t use it for insurance, commercial and cloning purposes. On a second thought go ahead and clone me if you can....
Running an internet accessible server means you are opening yourself to crackers. Running the server in itself is a risk, so risk management is of top priority when you open up the ports for accessing the server. The standard ports are 80(http), 443(https) and mostly 22(for ssh). Port 22 is the most important...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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