In Control Now !

My learnings with emacs & org-mode

Harshit Upadhyay — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:54:30 +0000

The journey that started with GTD (David Allen), and didn’t end in last 3 years seems to end now.

Yes it is EMACS & it is ORG MODE ! There can’t be anything else, now way, no question. period.

I had been looking for a todo, task management, day planning, organizing, reminding, planning, taking care of my life system.

The criteria was following:
1) The system needed to manage contacts, tasks, schedules, appointments & anything that concerns me so much to make me useless.
2) It had to be platform & OS independent, should sync with almost anything that ask for, including my brain !
3) Has to be free.

– sanjaybhai asked to check

How to know my own IP on linux machine (public IP)

Harshit Upadhyay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:56:31 +0000

To know the machines public IP on a linux system (Applies to kubuntu/ubuntu & any linux system)
Follow the below steps:
(1) create a file called checkip.sh in your home folder
(2) paste the code given below in the file using any text editor

#code starts here save to home directory in checkip.sh file
#! /bin/bash
wget -q -O – checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e ‘s/.*Current IP Address: //’ -e ‘s/<.*$//'
# paste this file in your home folder
# run: chmod a+x checkip.sh from shell/konsole
# run: alias checkip='./chekip.sh'
# now every time you run chekip command you get your ip
# created by harish ajmeri & harshit upadhyay hjupadhyay@gmail.com
#code ends here

(3) Save the checkip.sh file in your home folder.
(4) Open the file in a text editor & run commands as instructed once in the shell/bash/konsole/terminal ( lines starting with # as usal are comments meant to guide you on steps)
(5) Now every time you run checkip command in your console/terminal you get your public IP if you are connected to internet!

Finally settled for a GTD system that seems to work

Harshit Upadhyay — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:38:10 +0000

I’m using linux (kubuntu hardy haron 8.04 ) since around a year now. Was looking for a GTD system taht really works & passes the following testts:

(1) Has to be easy to install config & use

(2) Need to be rock solid stable ( i don;t want a great app to throw me out of gear one day suddenly !)

(3) Has to be free as in beer & speech both

After all the googling & posts & testing etc.. found 3 systems that come closer to this criteria

NO.1 is EMACS ORG MODE !!!… I’m not good at emacs but this thing is rock solid…stable, easy, & really works……

NO.2. is gtd-free (Java based JAR). This is light, platform independent & intutive interface.

NO.3. is lazy worm’s workdesk which is a LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) app, but too heavy to use as GTD & not everybody is so clear about lamp installation & config.

VERDICT

I will suggest GTD free. You can use it on any platform with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed

Installation Steps:

(1) Get Java JRE if you don;t have yet installed

(2) Download from http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/

(3) You can have jar or exe file basing on your preference

(4) Run the jar file from the download directory…. you are up & running

Hope this helps

In Control Now : A system to manage your day to day life and every aspect of it ! (open source)

Harshit Upadhyay — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:11:12 +0000