Restoring the Grub after reinstalling Windows
After reinstalling windows or fixing MBR(Master Boot Record) you always loose your grub and you cannot boot to your linux. So this post is about the methods of restoring the grub. There are three...
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“Send To” in Linux for Nautilus
It’s been a common practice among the windows users to right click and search for “Send To” option when a file needs to copied to the USB or any other Drive. Why spare me, even i used to do this while...
View ArticleAdding RedHat DVD as Repository
When we try out a new linux OS its always a pain to download and install all the software and add packages we needs on that. Its even worse if you don’t have an unlimited connection. But actually...
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Display Reminders In Gnome Panel
It was a long standing requirement of mine to create a reminder software or something which can keep me reminding of things as I always keep forgetting things. So I made a reminder that displays my...
View ArticleScript for Auto Copying of Cds/Dvds
Here is a script that i created for automatically copying all the files in cd to a folder and ejecting and waiting for the next cd. So here is how it works. You need to change the folder names and...
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BSNL Dataone Auto Downloader
Bsnl(India) provides an account that has 2am to 8am unlimited download. It was not easy to wake up at 2am and switch on the computer and sleep again. So I tried to find a method to switch on the...
View ArticleInstalling Django on Dreamhost
Installing Django in Dreamhost and getting it to run wasn’t straight forward at-least to me. There was lot of issues such as python bin directory not accessible as its shared and so. So the initial...
View ArticleService Engineer/System Administrator Interview Questions
This is not my code alone. It was the group effort of Vivek Ram, Cijo George, Sandeep Unni and mine during our epic preparation for Yahoo!. I am just putting it open for others who would be looking...
View ArticleCron a Django Program
One of the issue I faced while developing a website in Django was I always had a script which collects or data which is to be in the cron. But Django usually needs a lot of configurations and settings...
View ArticleDownload PHD Comics,XKCD and DogHouseDiaries for Offline Viewing (E-book Reader)
If you are like me who wants to read comics on kindle then this is the script for you. You can download all the comics to read it in a kindle. So here is how you do you do it. Download all the comics...
View ArticleAutomatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux
I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is “gconftool-2“. So...
View ArticleChange Timezone in Linux from command line
Changing the timezone in linux is done in a weird method. There is no configuration file where you can edit and change timezone. The method is simple and very easy. You need to link to the timezone you...
View ArticleFind Invisible Users In Gmail
Finding who is invisible is something that I always wanted to do.It’s always fun to ping a person who feels none can see him/her online. While studying XMPP protocol I found out that even when the...
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