Linux

Fedora (post EOL) Repositories for latest packages

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If you’re a Fedora fan, and curse its downside as opposed to Ubuntu where you can add Official PPAs. Here is what I’ve found.

Remi an official Fedora projects contributor does help older distros to work with latest packages by publishing the new ones. The site supports last 2 EOL Fedora releases.

Installation

Install Repo

Install the correct release, as for my Fedora-14, I installed remi-release-14.rpm

$ sudo rpm -ivh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm

Enable Repo

For some reason, the repository is disabled, Enable it by opening the file in VIM

[remi]
name=Les RPM de remi pour Fedora $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/$releasever/remi/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/$releasever/remi/mirror
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
failovermethod=priority

I got Firefox 10x , Thunderbird 10x installed on my Fedora 14 (Laughlin) !

Biking

Tarkarli, Sindhudurg, Vijaydurg, Goa Bike Ride

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A 1600 k.m. journey in the southern Konkan region of Malvan. Laced with the beach trips of Tarkarli, Devbag. With snorkeling at the base of the Sindhudurg fort and then drying up the clothes in the peripheral tour of the fort itself.

Vijaydurg’s 80km trip from Tarkarli through the temples of Kunkeshwar adding more to the “Jai Maharashtra” soul. A visit to a local traditional house in Achara (20 km from Malvan) on the way back like garnishing on the tasty trip.

Goa’s beaches beckoning just 100 kms down south of Malvan. The fort trips continued with Chapora fort overlooking the Vagator beach. Calangute beach however disappointing with its overcrowded sands.

The south of Goa had more to offer with its Agonda fort or Cabo de Rama fort with lovely backdrop of hills’ cliff falling straight into the Arabian Sea. The Agonda beach with its tranquil sunny warmth and egg-laying turtle sands like an icing on the desert.

Travelling Directions

Mumbai to Malvan via NH 17, then to Goa using Coastal highway or Mahasagari Marg.

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Tour of Campo De Rama fort and Agonda beach in Canacona, Goa

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Sindhudurg, Goa, Dec 2011
Biking

Barvi Dam Bike Ride

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Sep 4, 2011
Barvi Dam! Took a right at Murbad (NH 222), enjoyed the overflow @ Barvi Dam, then moved along the water reservoir to get back to Murbad. Went on straight forward towards Shahpur (NH3). En-route took a de-tour to a Asnoli-Jamba Dam, which was just lovely quiet place, yet again overflowing.

The rains, the sun and the bad roads were not very greatful to my bike. Poor her, suffering from punctured muffler joint @ the engine.

Travelling Directions

  1. Get on Mumbai-Agra (NH3)
  2. Take the first major right at Murbad

Route


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on the Edge

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You know when ur at the upper end of ur bike’s capabilities, when the unstrapped helmet’s visor touches your nose due to the unscreened air and the aerodynamics of the bike.

Even that is not enough, u raise the throttle to find its hitting the ‘upper block’ at only @ 105 kmph, Damn !

Biking

Vihigaon, Dabhosa Waterfalls, Bike Ride, 366 km

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Aug 21, 2011. Had been to this awesome Ride to Vihigaon Waterfalls, then moving onwards towards Jawhar and Dabhosa Waterfalls, and back! 366km of bum-breaking journey 😀


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Travelling Directions

  1. Reach Kasara Ghat base, NH3 (from Mumbai)
  2. As soon as the ghat starts, take a left exit towards Jawhar, move straight, ignoring the right towards Igatpuri
  3. in another 3-4 mins you shall see the majestic falls to the left down the valley
  4. Continue to move on towards Khodala (en route to Jawhar)
  5. At Jawhar, take the route towards Dabhosa (a right towards Silvasa)

Note:
Google map doesn’t show the road from Kasara to Jawhar (Hence the map shows a route via Igatpuri, Ghoti.

Just zoom in.. and u’ll see a road (The road is kickass for bikers ! ;))

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Automatic Header stick to scroll with jQuery

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Many must’ve seen this automatic-header-scroll-stick feature. Where a normal looking header suddenly sticks to the page when the page is scrolled.

Gmail to recently introduced such a “auto-sticking-interaction-header”. I thought I should give a simple explanation about it.

Demo

In the above HTML page, observe the following

  • A well defined stickyheader ID
  • jQuery inclusion
  • .. and some jQuery magic !

Explained …

At first we determine the offset of the #stickyheader, and grab the top variable of the object

Once done that, we bind the scroll event/method to the window object using jQuery magic. And to it we do the following

IF window.scrollTop exceeds the #stickyheader’s offsetTop, we simply set #stickyheader’s css as position: fixed; top: 0px. As soon as window.scrollTop drops below the offset, we make it stick back to its original position using position: static, The default positioning of the element.

Thats it!

Warning: Doesn’t work in IE6x, 7, etc or I don’t know – I DONT CARE

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