Windows Vs Linux – One more time

2017-04-07 5 min read Linux Uncategorized
Image via Wikipedia One of the most written and commented articles has to be Linux vs Windows (of course there are competitors like vim vs emacs) but none has been covered so much as Linux vs Windows. So, what am I going to write here which is not covered earlier in so many other posts. Well a little different perspective πŸ™‚ We will take this post in points so that we do not divert and its easier for you to comment with quotes to point number πŸ™‚ Continue reading

Search CVE – web interface with php

2014-11-03 1 min read Uncategorized
So, last few weeks have been very busy with lot of security issues, so I thought of having a local CVE Search app. But all I could find on google and github.com were on python and nothing that I could use quickly. So here is link to one that I wrote quickly: CVE Search PHP It’s in php. So just download in some folder and access from a web-server and you are done. Continue reading

unrar or unar – go open source way

2014-05-15 1 min read Fedora
Recently there was a utility released called unar, a open source replacement for unar. Description:: The command-line utilities lsar and unar are capable of listing and extracting files respectively in several formats including RARv3. unar can serve as a free and open source replacement of unrar. To install on fedora: yum install unar The utility provides 2 commands called lsar and unar, which can be used to list and extract rar archives. Continue reading

Taking screenshot in firefox.

2013-02-03 1 min read Firefox
Couple of days back, I was trying to take screenshot with Firefox. As usual I started out with searching for plugins which could take a screen shot for the whole page and not just the visible portion of the page. Installed couple of them, some did not work. Finally I found something called Development Bar. So, here is a simple way to take a screenshot. Press β€œShift+F12”. This will bring up a bar in the bottom of the firefox window. Continue reading

unable to browse windows network with samba4

2012-05-27 2 min read Fedora Linux
I use Fedora 17 on my work laptop and thus need to connect to windows share sometimes. After I upgraded to Fedora 17 some time, I was unable to browse the windows network. I would get all kind of errors and warnings and tried everything that I knew about Samba to fix the issue. Tried searching through all the forums to figure out what was wrong but nothing helped. And suddenly today I resolved it and guess how: Continue reading

N900 and skype support

2011-10-02 1 min read Maemo N900
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I was trying to add my skype account on the N900 today and could not add the account. I did not find any option to add the same. After some googling and searching, I found that I need to re-flash my N900. I had flashed the India image earlier to check out what it would provide me but to my astonishment there is no skype support in the India image, so if you are planning to have the skype account added to the N900, then you need to flash either the Global Image (with the string β€œMR0” in the name of the image) or the US image (004) and not the India image (004). Continue reading

Deleting all mails in the N900 (Maemo 5) permanently

2011-06-14 2 min read Maemo N900
Well couple of days back, I checked the folder details of one of my accounts configured on the N900 (Maemo 5) and it was showing some 1000 or more emails, whereas I had only 4-5 emails in the Inbox so where are the other emails and how to I get rid of them. This was causing the mail application to become a little slower than usual so do I live with it, I decided not to do so and thus found out how to delete all the mails. Continue reading
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