Poor man's pdf diff tool

Recently a client shared updated requirement document, unfortunately the document was in PDF and I don’t want to go through 60+ pages of document for changes.

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Raspbian + XBMC + Airplay

TL;DR: Yes, you can. If you are only interested in the steps skip to the relevant section.

I own a Raspberry Pi for closer to a year now. I was not able to use my Netgear N150 (WNA1100) dongle until last week with it, I was kind of lost my enthusiasm by this bitter experience and hold my experiments for long time. Other than installing some console emulators and XBMC in last 6 months, I have not done anything with my Raspberry Pi.  You can refer my adventures here and here.

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Grep - Swiss army knife

I have used this command sparingly in the past and I recently learnt more options by solving couple of my problems. I really don’t know whether grep is the right choice here, but hey! it worked :-)

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Expired distribution provisioning and Yak shaving

Last Thursday one of my iPad app’s provisioning file has expired. Client brought it to us at the very late moment, the iPad app was distributed internally as an enterprise app. App users are for HVAC technicians, app integrates with their organization’s CRM (Salesforce) so distributing it with App store doesn’t make any sense.

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Google Chrome : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)

 

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application

Symantec causes this issue and the temp. solution is to disable the sandbox. And the solution from Google Groups is    You can try running Google Chrome with --no-sandbox (you need to edit the properties of the shortcut you use to launch it).

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