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Blog Updates

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 02:12:29 +0000

Quick update on the blog. I have made some pretty good changes and now this blog should be loading pretty fast. Hope you have a much better experience now :)

Artificial ?

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 02:12:29 +0000

from Instagram: https://instagr.am/p/CBKAsAyjFys/

ssh trick – with bastion host

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:44:42 +0000

Lot of times, you have to ssh to a server with bastion host. If you dont know what is bastion host then see this:

Now, in such cases, either you add an entry in “~/.ssh/config

terminal.sexy – make your teminal sexy

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:55:11 +0000

terminal.sexy is a nice webpage that allows you to select the colors for your terminal and then you can export it in various formats.

Main site : http://terminal.sexy

and for the source code: Github URL

IT Trends That Will Boost Global Economic Growth

Mon, 06 May 2019 01:03:52 +0000

IT has been known to have a great impact on the global economy and has been linked to marketplace transformation, better standards of living, and international trade, among other things.

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  Here are some <a href="https://techjury.net/blog/information-technology-trends/">IT trends</a> that are expected to further boost the economy in the near future.
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  IT Trends That Will Boost Economic Growth
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  Artificial Intelligence
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  This is the use of robots and artificial intelligence to carry out task previously done by humans. AI tech and its related technologies will help boost economic growth by creating many new jobs, increase production efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the quality of products.
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  5G
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  <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/what-is-5g-everything-you-need-to-know">5G</a> is the next generation of mobile wireless network technology. It is believed that 5G will improve customer experiences and business utility via effective connectivity and faster data transmission.
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  5G stands as a change from previous generations of mobile technology. It enables lower latency, thereby reducing the time signals need to travel through the network. This makes it possible for it to support a wider range of applications, robotics, and the Internet-of-Things (IoT).
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  Blockchain Technology
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  The use of blockchain technology has grown steadily over the years. The healthcare sector is the major user, closely followed by financial institutions. Blockchain technology has a lot of untapped potentials, as it helps to improve transparency, reduce transaction costs, reduce frauds, increase overall operating efficiency, etc.
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  Three-Dimensional (3D) Printing
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  <a href="https://3dprinting.com/what-is-3d-printing/">3D printing</a> is rapidly changing the way we live and conduct businesses. 3D technology is already being used in several industries for a wide range of purposes. It will also be of great use in the healthcare sector, manufacturing industries, and so on.
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  To learn more about these and other IT trends, check out the infographic <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2019/04/15/how-much-money-flows-through-it/">here</a>.
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How much money flows through IT

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 01:00:16 +0000

Check out this amazing infographic

Global IT Economics [Infographic]

Use Linux on your Android mobile/tablet (without root)

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 01:00:23 +0000

Been looking for this for a long time, finally there is some app which allows me to run a linux distro without rooting my gadget.

Here is link to userland.tech website. Check this out, its easy to setup and does not require rooting your device.

Get to your ebooks quickly

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 01:05:03 +0000

So this is going to be a little longer post than usual.

To begin with, here is screenshot of how it would look like finally:

Styled-Components: CSS-in-JS Library for the Modern Web

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:11:46 +0000

This post was written by Jeremy Davis, JavaScript Developer for Toptal.

CSS was designed for documents, what the “old web” was expected to contain. The emergence of preprocessors like Sass or Less shows that the community needs more than what CSS offers. With web apps getting more and more complex over time, CSS’ limitations have become increasingly visible and difficult to mitigate.

Styled-components leverages the power of a complete programming language—JavaScript—and its scoping capabilities to help structure the code into components. This helps to avoid the common pitfalls of writing and maintaining CSS for large projects. A developer can describe a component’s style with no risk of side effects.

Python Class Attributes: An Overly Thorough Guide

Mon, 21 May 2018 01:08:31 +0000

This article is originally published at Toptal.

I had a programming interview recently, a phone-screen in which we used a collaborative text editor.

I was asked to implement a certain API, and chose to do so in Python. Abstracting away the problem statement, let’s say I needed a class whose instances stored some

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Rails Service Objects: A Comprehensive Guide

Mon, 07 May 2018 01:00:15 +0000

This post was written by Amin Shah Gilani, Ruby Developer for Toptal.

Ruby on Rails ships with everything you need to prototype your application quickly, but when your codebase starts growing, you’ll run into scenarios where the conventional Fat Model, Skinny Controller mantra breaks. When your business logic can’t fit into either a model or a controller, that’s when service objects come in and let us separate every business action into its own Ruby object.

Quick screen sharing and meeting without any software

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 01:00:40 +0000

Wanted to share this as this seems to be good option:

https://meet.jit.si/

Battery life on laptops

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 01:00:06 +0000

To improve your laptop battery life, just do the following:

sudo dnf install tlp tlp-rdw
systemctl start tlp
systemctl enable tlp

asciinema – video for your terminal session

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:04:39 +0000

Info about asciinema:

Name         : asciinema

Version      : 1.4.0

Release      : 1.fc26

Arch         : noarch

Size         : 144 k

Source       : asciinema-1.4.0-1.fc26.src.rpm

Repo         : @System

From repo    : fedora

Summary      : Command line client (terminal recorder) for asciinema.org service

URL          : http://asciinema.org

License      : GPLv3

Description : Asciinema is a free and open source solution for recording the terminal sessions

and sharing them on the web.

To install, you can do:

Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Hiring a Freelance AngularJS Specialist

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 01:07:14 +0000

Hiring a freelancer for Angular jobs can be a scary undertaking, especially when filling a hole in your team’s existing skill set. Whether you’re hiring a freelancer to take ownership of an existing AngularJS web development project, to pave the way with a new greenfield project, or to augment an existing team, you’ll need to know what to look for and what to avoid.

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        Pitfall No. 1: AngularJS vs. Angular
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        Even though it sounds straightforward, not all “Angulars” are created equal.
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        The team that built Angular has specified in its <a href="http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2017/01/branding-guidelines-for-angular-and.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Branding Guidelines for Angular and AngularJS</a> that “AngularJS” should be used when referring to versions 1.x, and “Angular”—without the “JS”—should be used when referring to versions 2+. That means even Angular 4 is just referred to as “Angular.”
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        <strong>Why does this matter?</strong>
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        It’s important for you and your freelancer to be on the same page and use the right name. While AngularJS and Angular may sound similar, they are in fact distinct frameworks. And just as you wouldn’t expect a <a href="https://www.toptal.com/react">React specialist</a> or a <a href="https://www.toptal.com/vue-js">Vue.js specialist</a> to hit the ground running with your Angular app, you shouldn’t expect an AngularJS specialist to be an expert in Angular, or vice versa. This isn’t to say they can’t take it on—they’ll just require more ramp-up time.
      </p>
      
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        When hiring for an existing project, be sure to know if you need an AngularJS or Angular specialist. If you’re planning a new project, use Angular!
      </p>
      
      <h2 id="pitfall-no-2-hiring-a-developer-who-isnt-fluent-in-typescript">
        Pitfall No. 2: Hiring a Developer Who Isn’t Fluent in TypeScript
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        Angular was written in TypeScript, and it is by far the preferred language for Angular apps. This means that the ecosystem (e.g., libraries and documentation) around Angular is predominantly written in TypeScript.
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      <p>
        When hiring an Angular expert, you’ll want to make sure that you’re hiring someone who knows TypeScript and can take full advantage of its amazing features. They should be familiar with tools like <a href="https://atom.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atom</a> and <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VSCode</a>, which support TypeScript and will highlight errors and provide autocompletion.
      </p>
      
      <p>
        Hiring an Angular specialist means hiring a TypeScript specialist, so test their chops!
      </p>
      
      <h2 id="pitfall-no-3-lead-or-follow">
        Pitfall No. 3: Lead or Follow?
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        Are you looking for someone to augment your existing Angular team? Maintain an existing application? Lead or bootstrap a new project?
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          An Angular lead should know how to set up a new project. This is an <strong>incredibly important</strong> part of your project lifecycle.
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      </blockquote>
      
      <p>
        The answers to these questions will help you determine how much Angular experience your specialist will need to have. As with other frameworks, the skill and experience required to be productive in an established codebase is much lower than what is required to bootstrap a new project. If you don’t need an Angular lead, then hiring someone with React, AngularJS, or great JavaScript experience may suffice, although they will require some learning. If you need an Angular lead, or someone to bootstrap a new project, you’ll want to make sure that your specialist is up to the task.
      </p>
      
      <p>
        A professional Angular lead should know how to set up a new project. This is an <strong>incredibly important</strong> part of your project lifecycle! Think of it like a building—you wouldn’t want to build a skyscraper on top of a shaky foundation. Likewise, your Angular lead will be setting up the foundation for themselves and all future developers working on your project, so it needs to be rock-solid.
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        <strong>A good setup will:</strong>
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          Follow best practices (for <a href="https://angular.io/guide/styleguide" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Angular</a> or <a href="https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide/blob/master/a1/README.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AngularJS</a>).
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          Reduce bugs.
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          Make it obvious how to add new features and extend your application.
        </li>
      </ul>
      
      <p>
        When hiring a lead, make sure to ask them about best practices, directory structure, and how to set up a single page application (since it requires special routing).
      </p>
      
      <h2 id="pitfall-no-4-your-angular-specialist-doesnt-really-know-angular">
        Pitfall No. 4: Your Angular Specialist Doesn’t Really Know Angular
      </h2>
      
      <p>
        You wouldn’t hire a chef without tasting their food, and you shouldn’t hire someone for Angular or AngularJS development without testing their Angular knowledge. (A great starting point for this is <a href="https://www.toptal.com/angular-js/interview-questions">our list of AngularJS interview questions</a>.) Both Angular and AngularJS code come with their own set of peculiarities that you’ll want to talk about.
      </p>
      
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        <strong>Data Binding and Component Communication</strong>
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        An Angular specialist should know their way around data binding and component communication.
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        An AngularJS expert in particular should know the different ways to pass data to a component:
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                                        Your specialist should also be able to tell you how to do parent-child or child-parent component communication, for <a href="https://angular.io/guide/component-interaction" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Angular</a> or <a href="https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/component#intercomponent-communication" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AngularJS</a>.
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                                        <strong>Services, Directives, and Pipes</strong>
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                                        Your Angular specialist should be able to explain to you what services are (hint: they’re singletons!), and when to use them. Services are a great way to provide common utilities to many components, simplify components by pulling out complex logic, and share state throughout your app. Angular makes it easy to control the scope of this shared state through the use of providers (e.g., app-, module-, or component-level state).
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        An Angular specialist should also know when to use directives and how to set them up. Directives are an amazing way to extend HTML by attaching custom behavior to elements in the DOM. For example, you could set up a directive to add on-hover tooltips to an element, set up hotkey event handling, or register when a user clicks outside of your element (to close a dropdown, for example).
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        Any non-trivial application will most likely have its own custom pipes, so your specialist will need to be versed in these, too. Pipes (or <em>filters</em> for AngularJS) are specifically used to transform your displayed data. Angular comes with many <a href="https://angular.io/api?type=pipe" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">built-in pipes</a>, and AngularJS comes with many <a href="https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/filter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">built-in filters</a>. Ask your specialist about these handy tools, and make sure they won’t repeat the same transformations across the app when they could use pipes or filters!
                                      </p>
                                      
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                                        <strong>Promises and Observables</strong>
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                                        While not strictly Angular-specific, promises and observables are paradigms that are common in the Angular world, and your specialist should be familiar with these as well.
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        Thanks to promises, we no longer have to live in fear of <a href="http://callbackhell.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">callback hell</a>, and your specialist should know when and how to use them (such as wrapping REST API requests). Additionally, Angular introduces the use of ReactiveX’s <a href="http://reactivex.io/documentation/observable.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Observables</a>, which provide an awesome way to stream data.
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <h2 id="pitfall-no-5-not-doing-a-code-review">
                                        Pitfall No. 5: Not Doing a Code Review
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                                        <strong>You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?</strong>
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        So, your prospective specialist sounds like they know what they’re talking about, but can they actually break down a problem and write quality code?
                                      </p>
                                      
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                                        Do a code walkthrough of some of their existing code that they can share with you. It doesn’t need to be perfect (but if it isn’t, they should be able to explain to you how they’d improve it). Additionally—or if they don’t have any open source code to share—have them code an example component within your problem domain (e.g., a checkout shopping cart, a web form for teachers to add lesson plans, or a to-do list). Alternatively, you can set up some example code and have them explain it and identify bugs and cleanups.
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        Checking their code can really give you an insight into not only their competency, but also their style. Good style goes a long way in keeping code maintainable and bug-free, and is just a good general indication of their seniority.
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        <strong>Things to look for:</strong>
                                      </p>
                                      
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                                        <li>
                                          They follow best practices (for <a href="https://angular.io/guide/styleguide" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Angular</a> or <a href="https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide/blob/master/a1/README.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AngularJS</a>).
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                                          Consistency in their style (casing, format, etc.).
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                          They use TypeScript for Angular.
                                        </li>
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                                          They can explain how their code works and defend their decisions.
                                        </li>
                                      </ul>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        Read up on <a href="https://www.toptal.com/software/six-commandments-of-good-code">good code</a>, <a href="https://www.toptal.com/javascript/10-most-common-javascript-mistakes">common JavaScript mistakes</a>, and <a href="https://www.toptal.com/angular-js/top-18-most-common-angularjs-developer-mistakes">common AngularJS mistakes</a>. And if you’re hiring someone who has yet to be vetted, you should also test their general programming skills (there’s a reason <a href="https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FizzBuzz</a> weeds out so many freelancers).
                                      </p>
                                      
                                      <h2 id="pitfall-no-6-proceeding-without-a-testing-strategy">
                                        Pitfall No. 6: Proceeding without a Testing Strategy
                                      </h2>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        Tests are an essential part of every code base. They’re like a warm, snuggly security blanket for your engineers, giving them confidence that they aren’t breaking anything and costing the company money. Good tests and a good testing strategy will boost your <a href="http://firstround.com/review/forget-technical-debt-heres-how-to-build-technical-wealth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">technical wealth</a>, while bad tests, or lack of strategy, will be a constant source of frustration and major code debt.
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                                        A good freelancer will advocate for tests and understand their benefits:
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                                          Guarding against regressions (preventing <em>“What do you mean users can’t sign up anymore!?”</em>).
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                                          Acting as codified documentation of your codebase, making it easier for other developers to understand, maintain, and extend it.
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                                          Validating functionality and preventing bugs in pesky edge cases.
                                        </li>
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                                      <p>
                                        If you don’t understand testing, you’ll likely fall into the <em>“We need tests!”</em> trap. This can lead you to hire someone who doesn’t truly understand tests, but will happily write tons of less-than-useful or incredibly fragile tests.
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                                      <p>
                                        When considering Angular consulting, you’ll want to explore your potential hire’s understanding of tests and determine how they’d go about testing your app.
                                      </p>
                                      
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                                        <strong>Things to look for:</strong>
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                                          They understand the <strong>fragile</strong> nature of front-end testing and how to use constructs like <a href="https://angular.io/guide/testing#use-a-page-object-to-simplify-setup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">page objects</a> to <a href="http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Don%27t_Repeat_Yourself" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DRY</a> up test upkeep in the face of template changes and refactorings.
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                                          They can explain how AngularJS’s digest cycle works, or how Angular’s asynchronous change detection works, and how that impacts testing. (Hint: You need to <a href="https://angular.io/guide/testing#the-tick-function" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explicitly resolve asyncs</a> or use <a href="https://angular.io/guide/testing#whenstable" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrapping functions</a>to wait for them.)
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                          Mocking! They should know how to use <a href="https://jasmine.github.io/api/edge/global.html#spyOn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spys</a> and <a href="https://angular.io/guide/testing#provide-service-test-doubles" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stubs/test-doubles</a> in order to isolate tests and remove their dependence on any network calls.
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                          An Angular specialist will know that services and pipes are ripe for unit testing. Components are also unit-testable, but with a <a href="https://angular.io/guide/testing#test-a-component" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bit more boilerplate</a>. This is why it is recommended to <a href="https://angular.io/guide/styleguide#delegate-complex-component-logic-to-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">move complex logic into a service</a>.
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                          End to end (E2E) tests will depend on your back-end framework, but an Angular specialist should know about <a href="http://www.protractortest.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Protractor</a> (although other tools like <a href="http://nightwatchjs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nightwatch.js</a> will also work).
                                        </li>
                                      </ul>
                                      
                                      <p>
                                        To aid in your probing of their abilities, you could provide an example component, service, or directive and ask them what they’d test—maybe even have them write up the “it should (blank)” descriptions of all of the tests they’d write for it, and also write one of them up.
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                                        When hiring a professional Angular specialist, don’t superficially ask about tests. Instead, explore their understanding of what to test and how to test it.
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                                        Pitfall No. 7: Having Only Non-Developers Interview Your Freelancer
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                                        When hiring a freelance developer for Angular(JS) web development, you’ll want to make sure that a developer interviews them. Just because a freelancer is confident, it doesn’t mean they are competent, and a non-developer has a higher risk of making a costly mis-hire. A good developer will be able to recognize someone who knows what they are talking about. Your developer should also validate that the freelancer can walk the walk, through interview questions and challenges.
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                                        If you don’t have a senior developer, you can ask a friend or stick with vetted developers.
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                                        This Up-Front Effort Will Save You Time and Money in the Long Run
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                                        Exploring AngularJS development services can seem like a difficult, opaque, and potentially costly process. After all, if you’re looking for a freelancer to contribute to your existing project or team, it’s incredibly important to find someone who is a good fit and whose chops are up to par. And if you’re building a new project from scratch, in many ways, your project’s future success will depend upon the early-stage decisions made by your specialist.
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                                        But don’t panic. By taking the precautions discussed above, you can ensure not only that you’ll be hiring a skilled developer, but also that your project will be on the right track to succeed and to take advantage of all the powerful features that Angular has to offer.
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On the way

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 01:42:09 +0000

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Getting Started with Elixir Programming Language

Mon, 15 May 2017 01:10:11 +0000

If you have been reading blog posts, hacker news threads, your favorite developers tweets or listening to podcasts, at this point you’ve probably heard about the Elixir programming language. The language was created by José Valim, a well known developer in the open-source world. You may know him from the Ruby on Rails MVC framework or from devise and simple_form ruby gems him and his co-workers from the Plataformatec have been working on in the last few years.

Flowers near office

Wed, 03 May 2017 13:51:24 +0000

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Windows Vs Linux – One more time

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:07:25 +0000

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 🙂

Celebrating 25 Years of Linux Kernel Development

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:12:39 +0000

Linux is now 25 years old, but it’s no hipster. It’s not chasing around Pokemon, and it’s not moving back in with its parents due to crippling student debt. In fact, Linux is still growing and evolving, but the core ideas of the Linux State of Mind remain the same.

You see, Linux is much more than an operating system, it’s a mindset. Even if you don’t agree with its philosophy, you can’t afford to ignore it.

Happy Holi

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 01:57:24 +0000

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Linux Best Practices and Tips

Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:45:50 +0000

Linux is powerful, flexible, and can be adapted to a broad range of uses. While best practices for administrating Linux servers are not hard to find due the popularity of the operating system, there is always a need for up-to-date Linux advice, along with the best tips, from our experienced Toptal Linux administrators.

How to Avoid Frustration After Forgetting To Use Sudo Command

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Mehandi

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 07:17:27 +0000

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Merry together

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 02:00:44 +0000

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Just hanging around.

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:19:08 +0000

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Some nice fonts in Fedora for coding

Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:45:31 +0000

Here is link to fedoramagazine article on this:

6 great monospaced fonts for code and terminal in Fedora

And what the article does not mention is how to install these from terminal. You can use the following command to install them all

sudo dnf install levien-inconsolata-fonts.noarch \
adobe-source-code-pro-fonts.noarch mozilla-fira-fonts-common.noarch \
 mozilla-fira-sans-fonts.noarch google-droid-sans-fonts.noarch \
 google-droid-sans-mono-fonts.noarch nethack-bitmap-fonts.noarch \ 
nethack-bitmap-fonts-core.noarch

update for wordpress.com issue

Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:47:47 +0000

I had issues with my mobile and reset it without taking back up of Google authenticator. Guess what, now I have no access to the worpress.com account to which my blog was linked. Tried everything and when nothing worked, had to create a new account in worespress.com…. Hopefully my subscribers will not have any issues with this change.

Nice discussion on Control Panel ( free ) for VPS.

Sat, 27 Dec 2014 00:45:04 +0000

http://xmodulo.com/free-control-panel-for-vps.html

Enjoy the discussion and information if you are looking for free control panel for VPS or some other host.

PHP Image gallery with fancybox.

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:59:32 +0000

So, I was looking for some quick to setup PHP Image gallery file. I found couple but none of them suited my needs too well. So I had to write my own.

Very simple PHP script to show all the images under ‘images’ folder.

Shows some details in the images.

That is all that I wanted and that is all that this script does. So pretty simple single php file. Dependency is on fancybox so you will need the jquery and all but nothing else is required.

Search CVE – web interface with php

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:23:03 +0000

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.

CACert.org – get free ssl certificates.

Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:03:01 +0000

From CACert website :

CAcert.org is a community-driven Certificate Authority that issues certificates to the public at large for free.

CAcert’s goal is to promote awareness and education on computer security through the use of encryption, specifically by providing cryptographic certificates. These certificates can be used to digitally sign and encrypt email, authenticate and authorize users connecting to websites and secure data transmission over the internet. Any application that supports the Secure Socket Layer Protocol (SSL or TLS) can make use of certificates signed by CAcert, as can any application that uses X.509 certificates, e.g. for encryption or code signing and document signatures.

get the contents of whole site like some wiki or wikia

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:08:14 +0000

For wikis and wikia, generally if you are trying to get some url mirror, then websucker.py is an excellent option. This script is in the python sources so, to get this tool,

yumdownloader --source python

Install the rpm downloaded in current directory and then go to ~/rpmbuild/SOUURCES. You should find a Python-*.tar.xz file here, just extract with

tar xvf Python*.tar.xz

and there you go, you should find the tool in Tools/webchecker/websucker.py.

Apache server stats with small and useful bash script.

Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:35:36 +0000

Just copy this script to your web-server cgi-bin directory and enjoy.

The script with show the common errors like 404 Error, Internal Server Error and others. It will show the User agent distribution using simple commands like grep, uniq, awk and so on.

You would need to change the tfile – which is temporary file and also the access.log path in the next line.

Just re-direct the output to some file with html extenstion. You could even put this in the cron which re-directs the output to some html in server document root.

Happy Diwali

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:07:56 +0000

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali 2013.

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Lal Bagh 2013 – Photos from Flower show on 15 Aug 2013

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:12:55 +0000

Its again that time of the year, when visiting Lal Bagh ( Bangalore , India) is so much fun. There is a lot of crowd and there are lot of opportunities for photography. So, here are some of the photos 😉

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For more, visit my Flickr profile.

remove the background the easy way — online

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:35:22 +0000

Here is a nice link to web application that lets you remove the unwanted background. Just head over to the side, follow the simple instructions of marking the background and the subject and you are done.

http://clippingmagic.com/

Pretty good results you will get here, you may need to do a little work on the results but otherwise pretty good results.

IE8 – Developer Tools

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:31:20 +0000

Don’t start banging me for this, but I had to test something on Windows and thus found out this. I f you need to debug or test something on IE8 on Windows, then you can simply press “F12” and this will bring up the developer tools… could be useful to you, sometime if you are stuck with testing something on IE on windows 🙂

Ubuntu hushlogin

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:00:05 +0000

In Ubuntu, if you do not like all the information that comes when you do a remote login, then you just need to do this:

touch ~/.hushlogin

New improvements in site.

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:19:15 +0000

Have spent some time today to speed up the blog today and made some improvements.

Today I finally managed to get some time to update my site and change theme. I also made some changes that should decrease the page loading time. Have updated the “Sitemap” page and also the contact me page. There are couple of other changes that should make your experience a lot more better.

Your own local search engine.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:31:17 +0000

There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution.

You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions.

download omega from http:// xapian.org/download

yum install xapian libuuid-devel

And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions.

Federated Search Engine Diagram (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Create index using command omindex
and then you can use quest or search.py to search or you can setup the cgi way so that you can use local browser to search.

visio support comes to Linux with loads of new features of LibreOffice.

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:32:54 +0000

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LibreOffice 3.5 was released few days back with loads of features and improvements. Most bragged about feature should be capability to read visio diagrams. You can read the full list of features here. And here are some interesting features:

Better UI for header/footer handling. Easily add header or footers. Quickly see what is edited with new changing text boundaries. Quickly edit or remove headers and footers without going through page styles formatting. (Cédric Bosdonnat)
New faster built-in grammar checker for English and several other languages. (László Németh)
New multi-line input bar in Calc. The arrow-control at the end of the toolbar allows to switch this on/off. (Anurag Jain, Noel Power)
Import filter for Microsoft Visio documents. (Fridrich Štrba, Eilidh McAdam, Valek Filippov)
Custom Shapes import was greatly enhanced, many bugs were fixed and new presets implementation added. (Radek Doulik)
and many more…

The Bright Future of LibreOffice (pcworld.com)
LibreOffice 3.5 Released (news.slashdot.org)
Jono Bacon: Kudos, LibreOffice (jonobacon.org)
Intel backs Libre Office by joining The Document Foundation (thetechscoop.net)

cream bash ide – vim with bash support

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:16:48 +0000

Image via Wikipedia

Here you can find the cream editor. This is basically vim editor with lots of customizations thus making it simpler for the users to use the editor directly.

This version already has the bash and perl support plugins and thus you can start using them as IDE without the need to add any plugins. It has a simple and advanced mode. In the simple mode you need not worry about all the modes of the vi/vim editor. How cool is that 🙂

Google gravity for fun

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:14:20 +0000

Image via CrunchBase

1) Write ‘Google Gravity‘ in Google search box,press enter. 2) Click on the 1st result that appears i.e. Google Gravity. 3) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen. 4) Play with it for a while. 5) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter. 6) Wait and see. Something even cooler will happen 🙂 Awesome !!!..

Google Gravity (mgitecetech.wordpress.com)
Google Sphere (mgitecetech.wordpress.com)
Does anyone enjoy a practical joke? (birthnavigators.wordpress.com)

Happy New Year 2012

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:44:04 +0000

Happy new year to all.

30 Best Windows Mobile Applications

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:39:16 +0000

30 Best Windows Mobile Applications

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The main reason why people still love window mobile is because of its freeware applications and excellent add-ons. Windows Mobile users carry great access to third party applications than any other Mobile Operating system in the market. At the same time it might be confusing for the user to settle on which window mobile apps to download. So we at honeytechblog did a search and have compiled a list of Top 30 Best window mobile applications. These applications will ensure following features such as networking, themes, tools for tweak, music players, newsreaders, Internet browser, document manager and much more.

Merry Christmas

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:42:56 +0000

Merry Christmas to all.

qemu manager for Windows to run your linux distribution

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:33:49 +0000

If you are into virtualization, then you must have heard about Qemu. And if you are on windows then this is a must:

http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm

Political Hotsheet Herman Cain drops out 1 of 9 – CBS News (cbsnews.com)
Romney, Gingrich Proceed Carefully in GOP Showdown – ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Wisconsin rallies to beat Michigan State in Big Ten title game – Chicago Tribune (chicagotribune.com)

Need Google+ invitaion.. leave a comment here.

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:30:50 +0000

I just got mine, if you need a google plus invitation leave your email id in comments 🙂

Google+ – way to go for experinmenting.

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:42:36 +0000

Finally I got a invitations and was able to get into the Google+ today. Having been trying to do this for last couple of days, was quite anxious on how it is and how it fairs against Facebook and twitter.

First, heres a first look of the account:

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google+ Screenshot

Most noticable thing, as soon as you login is that all your contacts from google aare directly visible in your account and you can directly put them in any of the circles that you like. Picasaweb photos can be imported.

Another nice and feature rich alternative to Google Search

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:54:08 +0000

Image via CrunchBase

Some time back I had written a post on Scroogle. Scroogle is good, it provides privacy. But if you want more for your browsing experience, something that you thought was always missing in a lot of search engines, then there’s a better search engine and it is DuckDuckGo.

My Photos in the Nikon d5100 contest.

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:12:20 +0000

I have submitted my photos on the D5100 Nikon Photo contest. Do visit the links below and if you like them, vote for my photos 🙂

To vote, just click on the link. You will be taken to Nikon site, Facebook connect and vote.. simple. Thanks for all the support.

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Flower Closeup

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Camellion

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Dubai Night View

Registrations restricted for some time

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:53:07 +0000

Since morning today, the registrations has increased dramatically and hence for the time being I have restricted the registration to only verified Open ID. Extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused to all the genuine users.

Corruption, India and Social Activist

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:25:33 +0000

First off, sorry for being completely off beat this time but I could not help but write on this.

Everyone in the world by now would have definitely heard about the Indian’s Fight against corruption. Very good thing to do, there should be no corruption in any country in the world and if there is corruption then it should be fought. Now, lets look at how India is fighting this:

My new Maemo 5 Nokia N900 Mobile.

Fri, 20 May 2011 21:55:30 +0000

Image via CrunchBase

I have been thinking of buying the “N900” Nokia mobile for quite sometime but for certain reasons could not get my hands on this mobile so far. Finally couple of days back, I got my hands on this beautiful and powerful piece of software and hardware.

Well, here are some snaps for ya ll:

browsing the windows machines and their shares – listing

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:01:55 +0000

smbtree is a very nice command to check all the machines that are present in the LAN (your connected network). For this to work you may need to look at this article also.

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Prompted for a username and password when browsing to an IIS virtual directory (ask.metafilter.com)
How to Delete History in Internet Explorer (lockergnome.com)
How To Guide: Deploy VNC via Group Policy (edugeek.net)
Windows just doesn’t like tunnels (ask.metafilter.com)
Windows Tips – Speed Up your Network Share Browsing (hitechbarkadaz.wordpress.com)

Mohali Maahol!!!! KRICKET Diplomacy comes of AGE!!!!

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:56:56 +0000

Enjoy reading this 🙂

Mohali Maahol+ACEAIQAhACE KRICKET Diplomacy comes of AGE+ACEAIQAhACE Eleven flannelled fools chasing a red ball, with eleven thousand fools cheering them.

Bernard Shaw

This Englishman would have turned aback in his grave+ACEAIQAh By George+ACEAIQAhACE Had he glimpsed the current fervour and crescendo the game has attained. The World Cup which began in an almost staid and lacklustre manner (the Opening Ceremony was quite a damp squib, my thoughts) +IBM slowly but surely reached a state of frenzy with each win for India.

Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:56:02 +0000

Slackware released the next version a few days back and guess the complete name : Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832. You must be crazy to tell the complete version to anyone.

Development Release: Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832 More fun with Slackware’s version numbers as Patrick Volkerding announces the latest release candidate for the upcoming Slackware Linux 13.37: +ACI-There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release candidate: Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716. Very close now+ACE But we’ll likely hold out for….

sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:43:35 +0000

I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory.

To install:

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and the details of the package:

Name        : sakura

Arch : i686

Version     : 2.3.8

Release     : 1.fc14

Size        : 137 k

Repo        : installed

From repo   : fedora

Summary     : Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE

URL : http://pleyades.net/david/sakura.php

License     : GPLv2

Description : Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It’s a terminal emulator

with few dependencies, so you don’t need a full GNOME desktop installed to

have a decent terminal emulator.

Zephyr Announces Support for Internet Explorer 9 (prweb.com)
Vintage Terminal Emulator (adafruit.com)
GNOME Terminal tricks and tips (ghacks.net)

Happy Holi to all.

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:01:07 +0000

Happy HOLI to all.

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Happy Valentines day to all.

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:50:54 +0000

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Happy Valentines to all.

Ranking of the most frequently used commands

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:54:43 +0000

Lets take a quick look at how to get the most frequently used commands on you shell. So what we need to do is this:

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So, how did we arrive at this and will this always work? No it might not always work. A typical example is where HISTTIMEFORMAT variable is set. In that case, if you check history, you will see that after the number column we have time and date in the specified format, in which case, you will get wrong information from the above command. Anyways, forgetting these special cases, lets go to how we got this command:

bash math

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:42:26 +0000

some quick links :

http://mainstreetanswers.org/bash/math.php
http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/mathc.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/mathc.html

W3C Announces MathML 3, New Standards for Math on the Web (readwriteweb.com)
Find all the missing paths in the PATH variable in bash script (amit-agarwal.co.in)
Nice site for Math related games and resources… (greenbananablog.org)
bash 4.0 – new feature mapfile (amit-agarwal.co.in)

fork a new process in perl

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:32:54 +0000

I was doing something today and found that I require to fork a new process in perl. Now I had never done this earlier, so I did not know how to do this.

First some background :

I was doing some program very similar to http server, where the script accepts some input through a socket and then processes the same. In doing so I was seeing that the script was taking some time in processing the input and thus was not processing the second request until the first one was completed. Simple solution, fork the process.

First earning on the blog in the form of advertising

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:33:52 +0000

Thanks to all my visitors, I was approached by some advitisers, which suited very well with the theme and philosophy of my blog and thus accepted the same. So, thanks to all my visitors, now my blog has earned its first income in the form of advertising.

Happy New Yeat to all.

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:25:47 +0000

New Year wishes to all…

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MGL Cloud Initiative

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:06:50 +0000

MGL recently launched cloud services.

Enclosed is the brochure on MGL Cloud Initiative.

Also visit MGL facebook and twitter pages and email us your feedback.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/UltraCloud_MGL/146551115366538?ref=sgm

http://twitter.com/#!/UltraCloud_MGL

MGL_Cloud_Brochure _New.pdf

Photos of my office in the morning

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:06:32 +0000

Here are photos of my office on 20/Nov at 3AM in the morning. This is taken in the moonlight.

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Moon in the morning

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My office in moonlight

Sorry, the quality of the photo is not that good as the photo was taken from my mobile Samsung Omnia Pro, did not have my DSLR with me that time.

Free Home made calendar for December 2010.

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:14:18 +0000

Hope you will like this 🙂

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Publish iCal Calendars Without MobileMe Or An OS X Server [Mac] (makeuseof.com)
MUTTS and Eckhart Tolle Together Again in Enlightening ‘Guardians of Being’ 2011 Wall Calendar Calendar (prweb.com)
Free 2011 Calendars (forthemommas.com)

Happy Birthday Yash

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:54:42 +0000

If you don’t know then Yash is my son’s name.. Here are some photos for you 🙂

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Decoration of Birthday Cake

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Birthday Cake

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Fundraising for Linux Foundation.

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:20:47 +0000

All of us have been benefited by Linux in some way or other and this is due to all the work that is being done by so many organizations and people around the world. I would like to spare some time to tell you about my initiative to raise 100$ for Linux Foundation. Please visit my donation page or click donate on the widget in the bottom of the page. The Linux Foundation will highly appreciate it and so would I.

Happy Diwali to all

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:54:56 +0000

Wish all of you a Very Very Happy and Safe Diwali. Hope you enjoy this festival.

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Diwali Crackers

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Calender for the month of November – free.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:49:10 +0000

Here is the calendar for the month of November that you can use as wallpaper.

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Calendar November

How to Synchronize MSN Calender with iPhone (chasingeyes.com)
Wall calender marks time by falling apart (makezine.com)
“Alien Astronauts” Von Daniken Says UFO Alien ‘Gods’ will Return at the End of the Mayan Calender (grantlawrence.blogspot.com)
The chokehold of calenders – via coffeekid (weblog.muledesign.com)

Linux>1% Campaign. Prove that we are more than 1% !

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:46:18 +0000

Linux>1% Campaign. Prove that we are more than 1% !

At http://www.dudalibre.com they are running a campaign to make every owner of computers running Linux register. The aim is to prove that the general assumption, that only 1 % of all computers run Linux is wrong. Everyone is needed if this effort is going to succeed.

http://www.dudalibre.com/en/gnulinuxcounter

The page can also be displayed in Spanish and French

I voted for my distro Fedora, hope you do the same for your linux distribution and prove that Linux does run on high number of desktop.

http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof – very good collection of utilities for .deb based distro’s

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:53:22 +0000

Head over to http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof and you will find a nice utility created by the makeuseof guys. This will allow you to select the applications that you want to install and once you have made the selection you can download the unattended installer.

Well, to be frank with you I really do not see the need for this unless you don’t know how to add repositories or install simple stuff. Most of this (no, actually all of this except dropbox in my Fedora setup with the repositories that I have set). Now for one application why would I do that if that was available for Fedora. Any-ways pretty good for newbies, still.

Performance issues resolved with my blog.

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:53:17 +0000

For last 2-3 weeks there were quite a lot of performance issues with my website. I was looking at the same but could not get enough time to have all of them resolved together. Finally I have spent time on my web hosting and wordpress installation to resolve these issues.

I have taken this opportunity to optimize the blog also. Now the page loading time should be much lesser and you should not be seeing any issues with respect to the site performance or un-availability. If you do see some issues, leave me a comment or contact me through contact me page.

Free Calendar for October 2010

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:16:32 +0000

Hope you like my work with gimp and Nikon D5000 .

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/calOct10.jpg">Download Link<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www.zemanta.com/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" style="border: medium none; float: right;" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=2104687a-c8b4-4199-944e-69204d710f76" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" /><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution">

Hard and Software requirements… can you beat this.

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:01:31 +0000

The other day, I was looking at OTRS Documentation and guess what, I found a requirement that I could not full-fill. The requirement was for “Hard and Software”.

OTRS Documentation

Can you full-fill this requirement?

web page error\’d – Name cannot be less that 5 characters :)

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:35:52 +0000

If you have noticed, I have put a new <a class="zem_slink" title="Toolbar" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolbar">tool-bar in the bottom. The tool-bar is delivered from the wibiya cdn and while registering for the service, I got the below error 🙂

Wibiya: A Better Toolbar for Your Blog (building43.com)
Wibiya Toolbar [First Impression Review] (problogger.net)

OpenID for non-SuperUsers

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:36:05 +0000

Based on the results of my Unobtrusive <a class="zem_slink" title="OpenID Foundation" rel="homepage" href="http://openid.net">OpenID post, it is quite evident that there is a lot of partial <a class="zem_slink" title="Knowledge" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge">knowledge about OpenID out there. While my knowledge on the subject is far from complete, this post is my attempt to share what I have learned with others.

The target audience for the bulk of this post is people who are capable of adding autodiscovery links to their blog templates, may be able to install a small <a class="zem_slink" title="PHP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.php.net/">PHP script and/or know what a <a class="zem_slink" title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol">HTTP <a class="zem_slink" title="List of HTTP headers" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers">header is.

Download Free calendar for September 2010

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:07:35 +0000

Here is something that I got my hands dirty on just now 🙂

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/calSep10.jpg">Download link.

Hope you like it.

Download Free Conference & Events Calendar – Fall 2010 (searchmarketingstandard.com)
Septembar wallpapers (thekeks.com)
September 2010 Football Calendar (theoffside.com)

Happy Janamastmi

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:18:11 +0000

Happy Janamastmi to all of you 🙂

Use the last command\’s output as input to a command without piping and bind to it to a key sequence in bash.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:42:55 +0000

Use the last command’s output as input to a command without piping and
bind to it to a key sequence in <a class="zem_slink" title="Bash (Unix shell)" rel="homepage" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html">bash.

  <td>
    <div class="bash codecolorer">
      &nbsp;<span class="kw3">bind</span> <span class="co3">\'</span><span class="st0">"\\C-h"</span>: <span class="st0">"\\<span class="es5">`fc\\ \\-s\\`</span>"</span><span class="co3">\'</span>
    </div>
  </td>
</tr>

My comment : fc is the fix command of the bash builtin.
This is similar to using `!!` or

New entry – My DSLR from Nikon… just loving it.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:41:59 +0000

For last couple of months, I was thinking of taking a <a class="zem_slink" title="Digital single-lens reflex camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_single-lens_reflex_camera">DSLR. I had a entry level DSLR from <a class="zem_slink" title="Fujifilm" rel="homepage" href="http://www.fujifilm.com/">FujiFilm <a class="zem_slink" title="FinePix S9100" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinePix_S9100">S9600(which now I am planning to sell off). This is a very nice <a class="zem_slink" title="Camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera">camera indeed, but I had to have a better camera. So, I searched and researched and finally it came down to list of few things I wanted: a camera with couple of features, a <a class="zem_slink" title="Zoom lens" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_lens">zoom lens to begin with. So, after the discussion with one of my friends (Murali), thanks to him I have got my SLR (<a class="zem_slink" title="Nikon D5000" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D5000">Nikon D5000). Its a dream come true. Here are some snaps of the box.

Zabbix error\’d — just for fun

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:27:49 +0000

I was woking on Zabbix some days back and here’s a screenshot that I took from Zabbix running on <a class="zem_slink" title="Red Hat" rel="homepage" href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat Enterprise <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux 5. Pretty interesting to see that there is a graph with all the values on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Cartesian coordinate system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system">Y-axis as 3.26GB and still there is a trend on the graph. How many times did you get such graph 🙂

Happy Independence Day

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:23:29 +0000

Happy Independence Day to all.

SMS from my site - free worldwide.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:51:24 +0000

Thanks to Free widget, now you can send worldwide free SMS from the widgets in my blog.

Hope it helps you.

PuTTY alternatives - AlternativeTo.net

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:09:35 +0000

I like PuTTY quite a bit but do not like the fact that it does not have any tab feature. So, if I am working on multiple machines then un-necessarily I will have too many windows open cluttering my desktop. So, here is the result of my quest to find the alternative:
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How To Quickly Check If You’re Running A Javascript Enabled Browser

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:38:48 +0000

<a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-javascript-how-works">Javascript is an integral part of <a class="zem_slink" title="Web browser" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">web browsing and a lot of websites use Javascript for <a class="zem_slink" title="Web application" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application">web applications and functions. A question I get at AskTheAdmin.com often is how I can tell if I am using a Javascript enabled browser. I have two quick methods to tell if the browser you are using does or does not support Javascript.

Upload a video to youtube

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:16:49 +0000

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/JXJj-wy4keA/upload-a-video-to-youtube">Upload a video to youtube

$ google youtube post –title "My Video" –category Education ~/myvideo.avi <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google just released a new commend line tool offering all sorts of new services from the commend line. One of them is uploading a <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000982f58" title="YouTube" rel="homepage" href="http://www.youtube.com/">youtube video but there are plenty more google services to interact with.

<a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000054c6a" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">Download it here: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/">http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

Unixmen - Tips to reduce memory usage on Firefox

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:06:32 +0000

A nice aritcle on reducing the memory usage of firefox on <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux.

There are some things in life everyone is looking for and no one ever finds and there are other things that people keep finding and re-finding and inventing and re-inventing. Reducing memory usage for <a class="zem_slink" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox and speeding it up is one such thing. So, here is another story to reduce the memory usage of firefox.

A Five-Way Linux Distribution Comparison In 2010

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:06:30 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2010_fiveway&num=1" target="_blank">A five way linux comparison.

A very good comparison of the most common and famous distributions of <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000dafbd5" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux. Very comprehensive and detailed. Love this guy.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5585048/spotify-streaming-music-player-comes-to-linux">Spotify Streaming Music Player Comes to Linux [Downloads] (lifehacker.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://sathyasays.com/2010/07/13/spotify-for-linux/">Spotify for Linux (sathyasays.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www.zemanta.com/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zemified_c16.gif" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

New Improvements in the site and added few more features.

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:59:24 +0000

Last couple of days I have spent quite some time on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000041684" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website design and format and performance along with moving my Hosting Provider.

Here are couple of things that you would notice immediately:

Site loading time is decreased substantially. I saw it loading in 5 seconds from my system.
I have moved my hosting from ZNetIndia to <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000003f4284" title="Go Daddy" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.617409,-111.90477&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.617409,-111.90477%20%28Go%20Daddy%29&t=h">GoDaddy. Though the users do not have any direct impact in experience but that has definitely improved the performance. I have spent quite some amount of money on this and would request the viewers to click on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google Advertisements to help me cover it. You help is much appreciated. Other way you can help is by way of buying my photos from my <a title="My E Sop" href="http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in" target="_blank">e-shop.

need help on deciding the ISP to host my website.

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:46:52 +0000

My <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internet_hosting_service" title="Internet hosting service" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_hosting_service">hosting services account is expiring next month and I am evaluating to see if I should stick with the current <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider">ISP (<a href="http://znetindia.com">http://znetindia.com or <a href="http://zneti.com">http://zneti.com). I am quite happy with the current service but miss the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/shell_account" title="Shell account" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_account">shell account service. Since there is no shell account so I cannot do much on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" title="Server (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29">server..

How To Quickly Check If You’re Running A Javascript Enabled Browser

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:57:41 +0000

**<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Makeuseof/~3/e5yad0IRQV0/">

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/javaHead1.png" border="0" alt="javascript enabled browser" align="bottom" /><a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-javascript-how-works">Javascript is an integral part of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/web_browser" title="Web browser" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">web browsing and a lot of websites use Javascript for web applications and functions. A question I get at AskTheAdmin.com often is how I can tell if I am using a Javascript enabled browser. I have two quick methods to tell if the browser you are using does or does not support Javascript.

Configuration of my home desktop - updated

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:52:00 +0000

Here is the list of components of my Desktop :

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/nvidia" title="Nvidia" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3707277778,-121.963738889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.3707277778,-121.963738889%20%28Nvidia%29&t=h">nVidia Corporation G96 [<a class="zem_slink" title="GeForce" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html">GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) with 1GB

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/intel_corporation" title="Intel Corporation" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3879277778,-121.963538889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.3879277778,-121.963538889%20%28Intel%20Corporation%29&t=h">Intel(R) <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/intel_core_microarchitecture" title="Intel Core (microarchitecture)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_%28microarchitecture%29">Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz with 6 core

Transcend JM1333KLU-2G @ 1333MHz – totalling 4 GB of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ddr3_sdram" title="DDR3 SDRAM" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM">DDR3 RAM

22 inch BENQ <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/liquid_crystal_display" title="LCD" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/LCD">LCD monitor

Stats for blog.amit-agarwal.co.in

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:57:03 +0000

Last couple of weeks/months has been a very good time for my blog. The subscribers have increased, the visits have increased. My blog is visited more and more from the search results. My alexa ranking has come down drastically. Thanks to all my readers, subscribers and followers.

Here are some of the stats from the last 2 weeks:

PuTTY alternatives - AlternativeTo.net

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:06:45 +0000

Sometimes after hours of searching you find a link so good that it needs no introductions and neither any writeup. I found one such page today :

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Google staff dropping Windows for Macs, Linux PCs

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:53:34 +0000

For those who keep saying this is not the year of linux and probably it will never be 🙂

Google is abandoning the use of Windows by its staff as it\’s too much of a security threat, multiple staffers said Monday night. Recent concerns about Chinese hacks have the search firm requiring either a Mac or Linux for all new recruits to provide better security. Those who want Windows now often require explicit approval from executives and may not have any choice on desktops where it\’s only an option for notebooks.

[link to original | source: LXer Linux News

Google said to be moving away from Windows internally, Mac and Linux systems on tap instead (engadget.com)
Google revamps new employee computer policy; Windows now out of the equation (edibleapple.com)
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is (techcrunch.com)

Busy

Sun, 30 May 2010 15:35:08 +0000

I am busy finding a good photo to submit on one of the photography contest. Once I have finalized the Photo, will post the details and the photos here :). Probably tomorrow. Till then so long.

Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

Thu, 27 May 2010 20:26:33 +0000

If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE: checklinks.sh

#         USAGE: ./checklinks.sh

#   DESCRIPTION: Check if the links exists on affiliate sites

#       OPTIONS: —
# REQUIREMENTS: —
#          BUGS: —
#         NOTES: —
#        AUTHOR: <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY: Individual
#       VERSION: 1.0
#       CREATED: 04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
#      REVISION: —
#===============================================================================

10 Wordpress Traffic Builder Plugins That Work

Wed, 26 May 2010 11:41:55 +0000

This article covers several useful <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wordpress" title="WordPress" rel="homepage" href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress traffic builder <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/plugin" title="Plug-in (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29">plugins. The most important aspect of owning a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website is the amount of visitors you receive. I’m referring to your website’s traffic, which can be very hard to generate in the beginning stages. It’s essential that you <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-websites-to-track-a-websites-traffic/">track your website’s traffic to see where you’re at.

Script to download all the related videos from youtube with youtube-dl

Mon, 17 May 2010 15:59:20 +0000

Lets cut the long discussion <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/short_subject" title="Short film" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_film">short and directly give you the script. The script is combination of all the posts that I did in the past about youtube <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uploading_and_downloading" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">downloads. You need to copy all the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uniform_resource_locator" title="Uniform Resource Locator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator">URL’s in a file called ”~/youtube.urls” which you want to be downloaded. Or if you need to donwload the related videos, then save the html of the page and give it as the first argument for the script. So, here’s the scrit:

Downloading all related videos from youtube with youtube-dl

Sun, 16 May 2010 15:53:16 +0000

How many time did you want to see all the videos (related) to the one you were watching on youtube but decided otherwise as the downloaded was not fast enough. Or has it happened to you that you wanted to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uploading_and_downloading" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">download all the related videos, in either case you can use the youtube-dl utility I blogged about some times back. First you need to get all the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uniform_resource_locator" title="Uniform Resource Locator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator">URL’s in a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/text_file" title="Text file" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file">text file, and the simplest way to do this is :

Download youtube video directly from the command line with youtube-dl

Mon, 03 May 2010 17:38:07 +0000

If you keep searching for applications to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uploading_and_downloading" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">download the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/youtube" title="YouTube" rel="homepage" href="http://www.youtube.com/">youtube videos or you keep searching for the firefox addons to download the embedded the video, then this is for you. Ofcouse that is the case, only if you do not want to copy it after you have watched it in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/web_browser" title="Web browser" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">browser :). If you have already watched it then you can copy it from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mozilla_firefox" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox cache. I will post on that later for now lets see youtube-dl.

How To Modify Your Wordpress Theme Via The Browser Using Stiqr

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:07:43 +0000

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/00_Stiqr_logo.jpg" alt="00_Stiqr_logo.jpg" width="253" height="114" align="bottom" />Ordinary <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-build-a-self-hosted-wordpress-blog-for-free/">self-hosted WordPress users know only too well that even though choosing and using thousands of available themes is a snap, creating one is an almost impossible task. You could use <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/customize-design-wordpress-theme-easily-constructor/">one of the customizable themes to modify the look to your liking, but that’s as far as you can go. Theme creating is not for the faint-hearted who are afraid to plunge into <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/html" title="HTML" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/php" title="PHP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.php.net/">PHP and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cascading_style_sheets" title="Cascading Style Sheets" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets">CSS coding.

Upgrade to Fedora 13 from your existing version using yum.

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:47:06 +0000

Well. this time it seems to be very simple :

yum –releasever=13 upgrade

update 22/April/2010:
The key file will not be there so there are two options for you in this case:

Install the following rpms from the downloaded rpms with ”yum –nogpg localinstall”
a) fedora-release
b) fedora-release-notes
Run the whole upgrade with –nogpg option.

Issue observed after the upgrade:
The new kernel was not added in the grub menu and I had to manually add the below entry in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_grub" title="GNU GRUB" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">menu.lst file:

Microsoft Updates Linux Code

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:41:47 +0000

Microsoft releases enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community in 2009.

Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to

<a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Microsoft-Updates-Linux-Code-741438/?kc=EWKNLLIN04062010STR1" target="_blank">Read more.

l-exp listrs – A new look at linux blogs and sites

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:56:08 +0000

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/466188059"><img id="kwiclick-temp-0" title="gigantic apple final cut studio software sign …" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/466188059_ca5f73a0a9_m.jpg" alt="gigantic apple final cut studio software sign …" />

[Movie Review]RANN- predictable from Puttu

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:30:12 +0000

IdealisticHarshvardhan mallik(<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #ff420e;">B) and his son Jay(<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudeep" title="Sudeep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeep">Sudeep), find their channel loosing out on <span style="color: #9999ff;">popularity ratings for a rival <span style="color: #7e0021;">channel smartly run by his X-employee <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mohnish_behl" title="Mohnish Behl" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046894/">Mohnish Behl. Jay is provoked and hence in an attempt to rebuild and regain the foothold,he <span style="color: #00ae00;">plans a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sting_operation" title="Sting operation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_operation">sting operationwith aspiring PM **<span style="color: #280099;">Manoj Pandey**(<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/paresh_rawal" title="Paresh Rawal" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712546/">Paresh Rawal) and his <span style="color: #00cccc;">Co-Bro industrialistRajat Kapoor. Everybody gets their share,but end up <span style="color: #0099ff;">gobbling the truth. How is that revealed and what are their<span style="color: #94bd5e;">repurcussions forms the rest.

powertwitter for firefox- twitter with new look

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:24:30 +0000

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<a title="Power Twitter" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591" target="_blank">Power Twitter is a addon for firefox that gives twitter a new look with a lot of features. Here is the list of features:

Power <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/twitter" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter adds features to the Twitter <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/user_interface" title="User interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface">Web interface including:

Xoost – Search engine

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:49:36 +0000

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<a title="Xoost Search engine" href="http://www.xoost.com" target="_blank">Xoost is a community search engine. From Xoost page:

Imagine you are searching for a topic related to your favourite Music, Travel destinations, Events. With Xoost you will benefit from the exponential value of doing it much more productively together with your friends or family members. It’s all about sharing Search skills & Knowledge.

Happy holi to all.

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:33:07 +0000

A very happy Holi to all.

Airtel does not need old customers

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:08:32 +0000

Couple of days back, I shifted my house. No big deal, right. Not for Airtel :).

I applied for a change in installation address and applied for the same. And promptly they told me that it will be done in 4 days time. I was a very happy person, but the happiness did not last long. After 4 days also there was no response and thus I called the call center again and they told me that the area I shifted to was not feasible for them (PS: It was just the opposite side of the road). Great, so I called the Area Manager whose number I had from a conversation I had with him. (BTW, I was the first customer for Airtel in my area).

Wallpaper designed by me with GIMP.

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:58:22 +0000

Here’s the wallpaper, did not spend much time but I think this came out quite good.

Click to view full size or to download.

been busy for last couple of days….

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:45:55 +0000

Sorry to all my followers, been busy for last couple of days so there was not much of update…. anyways, I think I should be more free from this week onwards. Reason for being busy was that my sister is blessed with a pricess.

Blog once and educate 40,000 underprivileged children of India

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:07 +0000

Here’s one of the mail that I received from the IndiBlogger team.

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dear <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://www.labnol.org/about.html">Amit Agarwal,

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is a unique opportunity to reach out and impact thousands of lives through your blog. Yes, sitting at your desk and writing a <a class="zem_slink" title="blog post" rel="homepage" href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130">blog post can help educate 40,000 young Indians all over our country!

<span style="font-size: x-small;">One of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/india" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India’s most trusted and credible <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization">NGOs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/giveindia" title="GiveIndia" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveIndia">GiveIndia is taking part in a competition on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/facebook" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook to win a US$1 million grant. The winner will be the NGO that gets the highest number of votes from Facebook users. The prize of $1 million will help put or keep 40,000 children across India in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/school" title="School" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School">school for one year!

Browser and OS stats on my blog

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:52:15 +0000

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I have been thinking of posting this for some time, but here are some stats from my <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website:

OS Stats :

Happy New year to all.

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:11:50 +0000

: Image by Reinante El Pintor de Fuego via Flickr

A very happy and Prosperous new year to all.

Merry Christmas

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:21:52 +0000

Just saying Merry Christmas to you all..

Have a bash !!!

Opens Four Google Frames At Once

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:51:49 +0000

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Googlegooglegooglegoogle: Opens Four <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google Frames At Once Googlegooglegooglegoogle (that is Google times 4!) is a simple <a class="zem_slink" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website/<a class="zem_slink" title="Homepage" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homepage">startpage that puts four Google search windows in one page. It basically displays four frames so that you do not have to leave the page to search simultaneously. This tool is incredibly useful for Google power searchers.
<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/g4_thumb.png" alt="" align="bottom" />

check out http://browsershots.org/

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:49:06 +0000

If you are a web developer and are worried about how your <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia">website would look like in the various browsers and do not have the resources to test all the browsers, what do you do? Check out the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page" title="Web page" rel="wikipedia">webpage at

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Google wave invitation available with me.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:58:22 +0000

I have couple of wave invitations available with me, added yesterday by wave team to my accounts. Thanks to wave. It seems that lot of people suddenly saw that the wave invitations remaining in their accounts have increased. So, now I have couple of invitations spare. Please leave a comment and will try to send you one.

Alexa ranking improved by 1000%

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:30:27 +0000

I just checked my <a id="aptureLink_XU7RJWNcFG" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa%20rank">Alexa ranking and guess what, I have a 1000% change in last 7 days. Thanks to all my readers.

Google wave invite available with me..

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:15 +0000

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I have couple of invitations available with me for <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google <a class="zem_slink" title="Google Wave" rel="homepage" href="http://wave.google.com/">wave, if you want one, please leave a comment and I will send you one.<div id="aptureLink_gG6E7IBDeY" style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;"> <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/16f9bdfb-3575-4f46-bd7c-9a6bf57e1ef4/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b24.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

Google wave invites available with mjmwired

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:49:52 +0000

: Image by curiouslee via Flickr

<a href="http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/">http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/ has some google wave invites available. If you want one, you can check out his site.<div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/3fd36028-1e39-4c9e-9bda-390dc0659561/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b23.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

5 Sites To Find Free Alternatives To Popular Software

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:13:26 +0000

And sometimes there are software you find irksome and think things could have been better. In any case, I always like to try out a few alternative software choices before I settle with any particular application mainly for two reasons: One, you would never know how good or bad the one you are using is until you try some alternatives and two: a bit of choice and competition can only be for the good of us users! Your motivation might be different: perhaps you want to find a free software that does the same task as the paid software you are using or maybe your favorite Windows application is not available on Mac or Linux.

5 Good Image Search Engines Apart From Google Image Search

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:51:18 +0000

Even if you are using Deeperweb for firefox, sometimes google isn’t just getting you to the right page and picture. You start hunting for more picture search engines, so here’s the list of best for you.

When the right picture is everything, you need to go deep into the web and comb through the millions that are out there. Image search is just like normal search and similarly painstaking.

Google wave invite, get one for yourself.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:39:20 +0000

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/500x_wave-invites.jpg" alt="" width="500" align="bottom" />Earlier this week, Wave re-upped invitations in many users’ Wave inboxes. I chatted with a few folks via Twitter, and we’ve got several readers willing to donate some Wave invites. Now pay attention, because we’re only going to explain this once.

Introducing Amit Agarwal\’s Photography Site.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:43:17 +0000

It it immense pleasure to announce to you the arrival of <a href="http://aka-photo.com">http://aka-photo.com

Right now I am nurturing the idea of having this site dedicated to Photography with links to various sites and other such things. If you have any suggestions, drop me a message.

Citibank Doesn\’t Want Your Business, Linux Users

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:36:24 +0000

This is an article from the Citibank customers in US.

The Consumerist: ”Citibank won’t let customers using Linux computers log in to their online accounts. Adam argues that in 2009 this doesn’t make sense, especially when no other major corporate website blocks him like this.”

URL: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW">http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW

But in India too we don’t have much too different environment. Though I do not have any issues with the Citibank site, but I have HDFC Insurance. I always pay the premium online. This time the payment failed couple of times and the amount was deducted from my account. When checked with the Customer Service Desk, the confirmed that the payment option does not work on Firefox with Linux. For this time I have made the payment using Cash, but why should there be OS discrimination.

what is my user agent

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:47:30 +0000

Wonder what your browser is sending to all the websites that you visit.

Check out at <a href="http://whatsmyuseragent.com/">http://whatsmyuseragent.com/

Metasploit Project Sold To Rapid7

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:08:01 +0000

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ancientribe writes ”The wildly popular, open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool project has been sold to Rapid7, a vulnerability management vendor, paving the way for a commercial version of Metasploit to eventually hit the market. HD Moore, creator of Metasploit, was hired by Rapid7 and will continue heading up the project. This is big news for the indie Metasploit Project, which now gets full-time resources. Moore says this will translate into faster turnaround for new features. Just what a commercial Metasploit product will look like is still in the works, but Rapid7 expects to keep the Metasploit penetration testing tool as a separate product with ’high integration’ into Rapid7’s vulnerability management products.”

raj77in on Google – I am the only one on the first page.

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:52:56 +0000

Guess what, I did a search on Goggle for raj77in and I am the only one on the first page (10 results), did not go to the next pages. WOW I must be impressed with myself and with Google.

Here is the link

<a href="http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&source=hp&q=raj77in" target="_blank">http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&source=hp&q=raj77in

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wordpress upgraded to latest 2.8.5

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:57:22 +0000

Living on the edge and updating regularly is something I hope everyone likes. So I too did the same and upgraded my wordpress to 2.8.5 as soon as I saw the upgrade notice.

Happy Diwali Wishes

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:37:10 +0000

Wish all my readers, Happy Diwali.

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:46:58 +0000

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side Thankfully, the web doesn’t make us take sides. We can have the best of every world. With the launch of Bing, we had another search engine to crawl the web with. A few months and millions of searches down the line, Bing has also built up its legion of users (and fans). It’s Google vs Bing now. The former is still The search engine while the latter calls itself a decision engine.

Fastfollowers for Twitter users.

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:27:53 +0000

<a href="http://fastfollowers.com?i=raj77in ">Visit here.

**This is a site to increase your followers in twitter. Good way to go.
**

Twitter is overcapacity.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:51:41 +0000

Just now got this on twitter. Nice image to display when overcapacity.

Diwali lighiying with cheap ping-pong balls.

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:48:11 +0000

If you need some cheap and novel ambient lighting for your next party, you’re only a box of ping-pong balls and a string of lights away from solving your lighting worries.

Instructables user AdvancedMischief needed some novel lighting and was impressed with the diffusing power of the simple ping-pong ball:

At some point last semester I realized that ping pong balls make great diffusers and look really cool when they are glowing. Next we concluded that a hundred glowing ping pong balls would look even cooler. It was at about this point I decided that my apartment was in dire need of some ping pong ball lights.

Tag2Find – Tag Your Windows Files with Web-like Tags

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:59:27 +0000

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category

Tagging is something your pipsqueak pigtailed sister did with you when you were in your tweens. That kind of ceaseless trailing was pesky. The Web 2.0 version though saves us a lot of bother.

Tagging is commonplace around blogs and websites. We all agree that it’s a speedy way to scour out a web resource; nearly single click in its utility. We are so used to it that we perhaps miss it as a feature in Windows.

Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:57:09 +0000

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<font SIZE="6"><a HREF="http://www.debianhelp.org/node/15823">Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)

This tutorial shows how you can <a HREF="http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-boot.kernel.org-bko">boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. BKO allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora. BKO provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy.

4 Awesome Visual Search Engines To Transform Your Search

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:50:24 +0000

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<img SRC="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BingVisualSearch.jpg" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="Bing Visual Search" BORDER="0"/>Microsoft’s Bing recently introduced visual search as a different approach to search. I always use regular Google or Bing search for my needs, but sometimes I like to check out other search engines. Variety is the spice of life, and eye-candy is always a refreshing break!

Page rank – google and alexa and indiblogger.in

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:24:42 +0000

I was planning to put down my thougths on lot of other things but then one of the mails in my mailbox took my attention today. I had a mail from indiblogger.in stating that my page rank was 81. So, that was something good, for a person, who takes out time from family and office to blog. Not bad, huh.

Earlier I had not looked at Google ranking and Alexa ranking. I came to know that I have a google ranking of 3 and Alexa ranking of 1.87M, considered quite good by indiblogger. Looks good to me. What do you say.

added mail and mail notification support on the blog.

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:30:41 +0000

I have been putting this off for quite some time, finally I added the mail support on my blog. You can subscribe to comments or new posts or newsletters. Just click on subscribe on the main page. On the confirmation page you can select your options for the subscription (newletters or otherwise). Be sure that your email ID will not be used by me or I will not sell them 🙂

Database of vulnurability at milw0rm.com – udpate and makeindex with cron.

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:06:53 +0000

I am quite regular visitor of milw0rm and generally try to keep up with the vul’s. For doing this I wrote a small scripts rather set of scripts to keep myself update. Here’s what we are going to do:

Get the latest tar from the site.
Extract it.
Make the index
Have a shortcut to search the index.

Download the attached files for the first 2 points. <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/makeindex-milw0rm.sh">makeindex-milw0rm and <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/udpate-milw0rm.sh">udpate-milw0rm

indiblogger submission accepted.

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:00:41 +0000

I had submitted my blog to indiblogger.in some months ago and it was in waiting list. I had lost all hopes that it will get reviewed or approved and had long since stopped looking at the status also, but today morning I got a surprise mail that the submission is accepted. Here’s the link: http://www.indiblogger.in/blogger/7717/

my blog more accessible from PDA and iPhone

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:33:21 +0000

I have installed a seperate theme for iPhone and PDA so that the bandwidth and download required is much less from these devices. So, now my blog should load much faster if you are using a PDA or iPhone to browse my blogs.

Happy Browsing.

Complete makeover of the blog

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:56:20 +0000

I have been thinking about this for sometime. I have completed one year of the domain and thus on this occasion finally I am on a spree to do complete makeover of the blog.. Do visit the site to see the changes. There are couple of more planned which will be coming soon. So, keep looking out.

Option to login with any provider.

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:16:03 +0000

I have enabled the following logins on my site.

Hope you like it that you dont have to remember one more login 🙂

Links exchange and new blogs.

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:31:27 +0000

I think one of the best ways to learn new things and also get some traffic to use blog is link exchange. For this, I am inviting all new and old blog owners to put their blog addresses in the comment and I will put them in the body of the post. Hows that 🙂

Consider your account to be for you then use Linux

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:58:11 +0000

Found <a href="http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/51671_3834031_1/Consider-Linux-for-Secure-Online-Banking.htm" target="_blank">this nice article today, may be it will save someone his lifetime earning.

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Flash cookies making sure you have no privacy.

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:07:38 +0000

Every one thinks that if cookies are deleted then you are in good shape and that sites cannot access your data. Think again or read<a href="http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/62" target="_blank"> here.

A very amazing article that list out the issues and what can be done to stop it. Worth reading.

tagging enabled for subscribers on my gallery.

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:32:07 +0000

I have enabled tagging of my photos on this blogs image gallery. Do tag the images, when you get time.

Also the tags with help others also to seach photos.

India to create a microprossor of its own and use Linux on it :)

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:36:17 +0000

Read the article <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2362&blogid=14" target="_blank">here.

This is pretty good news, isn’t it.

Scroggle — Google with privacy.

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:30:41 +0000

If you do not like the google tracking, then scroggle is for you. Head to scroggle to see how it works, but if you are in hurry then you start searching <a title="Scgoggle" href="http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm" target="_blank">here.

And you want a Firefox plugin then head <a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=scroogle" target="_blank">here.

feedly– addon for firefox if you have a lot of subscriptions for Google reader.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:49:53 +0000

Download feedly <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8538">here. Feedly is the way to go if you have lot of subscriptions or otherwise too if you would like to see some changes in the way the google reader looks. Here’s the description:

A magazine-like startpage. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Frienfeed, Delicious and YouTube.

and a screenshot:

Managing your remote site locally – sitecopy.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:49:34 +0000

If you are managing a remote site, web server that you do not have direct access to (terminal or ssh) and you have to do it with cpanel, then I know how much pain it is. I had the same issue until recently when I discovered <a href="http://http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/" target="_blank">sitecopy.

Description of sitecopy:

sitecopy allows you to easily maintain remote Web sites. The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local site, with a single command. sitecopy will also optionally try to spot files you move locally, and move them remotely. FTP and WebDAV servers are supported.

couple of changes to the site.

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:23:47 +0000

Spent the weekend on making some changes to the site..

Added intense debate to start with for the comments.. I kinda liked it. Though am still struggling to get Facebook added to it 🙂
Feejit and Friendconnect was added some time back.

Hope you like it 🙂

bing versus google

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:40:49 +0000

I have been hearing a lot about the bing versus google search engine but the question is which is good. Can’t be sure, bing is good is some results and google is good in others. You too are confused then use <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12253" target="_blank">this addon on firefox. This is a nice addon which splits the firefox screen and then displays the result side by side. Here’s how it looks , great.

3/10 results in first page of bing for my site for search term \”amit agarwal\”.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:07:59 +0000

I was not planning on writing another blog on bing. But then bing lists my website 3/10 so <a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=amit+agarwal&go=&form=QBLH&filt=all" target="_blank">here is the link to the search. Worth braggin when there is Amit Agarwal from labnol.

Diary and Journal on your linux Desktop

Tue, 26 May 2009 15:34:04 +0000

<a href="http://digitaldump.wordpress.com/projects/rednotebook/" target="_blank">RedNotebook is a diary and journel for the *nix OS. This is a great software with some very good features.

This is available on fedora repo and hence to install you can just type:

sudo yum install rednotebook

Some features to note are:

Enter text for individual days and navigate using a fancy calendar
Add Categories to days and fill them with small content
Tag your entries
Format your text bold, italic or <span style="text-decoration: underline;">underlined
Insert Images, files and links to websites
Links and mail addresses are recognized automatically
(Live-) Search
Automatic saving
Backup to zip archive
Word Clouds with most often used words and tags
Create a template for each day
Export the journal to HTML, Latex or plain text
RedNotebook is Open Source Software, you are free to use and redistribute it under the terms of the GPL

RFC Reader – Elegnant way to read RFC and other text documents.

Mon, 25 May 2009 02:47:31 +0000

You can find RFC Reader <a href="http://download.cnet.com/RFC-Reader/3000-2383_4-10557406.html" target="_blank">here.

Description of the tool:

RFC Reader is a professional tool for reading RFC document. It can generate a section directory tree. And it provides lots of features to help you reading RFC documents, such as bookmark, highlight, search, and automatically record where you are reading. Version 3.2 is optimized and it is free now! You can use it without any limitation.

Absolutely hilarious

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:59:52 +0000

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.geek24.com/g/2006/06/13/absolutely-hilarious-computer-quotes">http://www.geek24.com/g/2006/06/13/absolutely-hilarious-computer-quotes

Some examples:
”unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep” – my daily unix command list
”If brute force doesn’t solve your problems, then you aren’t using enough.”
”Unix is user-friendly. It’s just very selective about who its friends are.”
”1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d”

The nice thing about Windows – it does not just crash; it actually displays a dialogue box and lets you press OK first. <div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/pixy5.gif" />

Nice articles to spend some time.

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:59:30 +0000

Get intoxicated with all kind of crazy languages in the world of computers.

<a href="http://www.tuxradar.com/content/programming-languages-melt-your-brain" target="_blank">http://www.tuxradar.com/content/programming-languages-melt-your-brain

A quite useful vim guide.

<a href="http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/03/03/vim-cheatsheet-revisited/" target="_blank">http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/03/03/vim-cheatsheet-revisited/

Happy Holi

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:27:29 +0000

Wish you all happy holi.

Feed burned on Feedburner.

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:23:23 +0000

Finally my ads are now burned on feed burner. The immediate change that you will notice because of this is that now you can subscribe using Feedburner and second and important change is that now you can subsciber by email 🙂

My photos on *looks with good download and rating :)

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:21:13 +0000

Enjoy the free wallpapers

<a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Linux+Power?content=99448" target="_blank">http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Linux+Power?content=99448

<a href="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Linux+Power?content=99451" target="_blank">http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Linux+Power?content=99451

<a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Sky?content=99487" target="_blank">http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Sky?content=99487

<a href="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Sky?content=99486" target="_blank">http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Sky?content=99486

MinGW – compile windows software on Linux

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:52:37 +0000

For all the windows developer out there, it is impossible to switch to Linux just because someone is looking for the Windows exe. Sooooooo bad. Not any more. There has been the MinGW compiler (and others) to compile the C programs on Linux box to run on Windows box. These cross compilers create windows exe and thus these can run on Windows natively without additional dll’s. That’s quite good, so how to do it.

Free Gift on Valentine\’s Day.

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:24:56 +0000

I am giving free gift to my viewers on V’Day. All the users registered on my <a href="http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in" target="_blank">shop, can leave a comment in the post to get a free gift of their choice from my shop. You can leave the product id in the comments and checkout the product in the shop and I will make the product free for you. This is only for next 36 hours and only one product per user.

Unix Flavors

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:35:12 +0000

<a href="http://linux.about.com/library/bl/bl_flavorlist.htm" target="_blank">http://linux.about.com/library/bl/bl_flavorlist.htm

List of unix flavors, though I am not sure if Linux can be considered as flavor of Unix 🙂

New talking virus — Computer Virus with Human Voice

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:19:33 +0000

Last couple of days, I have been very busy but not too busy to note that KDE is available for windows and that there is a new Windows virus that can talk in human voice. Find the article <a href="http://www.ethicalhackers.in/2009/01/computer-virus-with-human-voice/" target="_blank">here. Where is the world going with viruse’s. Dear BotVoice.A, I will miss you for being on Linux.

12 Wallpapers in which linux criticizes windows.

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:03:14 +0000

Just for FUN. Some cool wallpapers.

<a href="http://www.bablotech.com/2009/01/26/12-wallpapers-in-which-linux-criticizes-windows/">12 Wallpapers in which linux criticizes windows.

Special discount on shop.amit-agarwal.co.in

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:31:31 +0000

There is a special discount on some products at <a href="http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in" target="_blank">shop.amit-agarwal.co.in.. check out until discout remains.

sphere related content added.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:28:55 +0000

Added sphere related content plugin to my blog. Pretty good plugin to display related contect on the blogs. If you wish to see related content just press the sphere related content on the bottom of the article and a pop up will show you related content.

Web Thumbnails, create your account to upload your files for free, or send an ecard.

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:10:49 +0000

I just have the correct set of tools and the web application for your creativity. You can create your login and use your imagination to create your own eCrads. There’s a lot more things that you can do. I will leave those for your creativity.

Here is the link:

<a href="http://amit.with-linux.com/gallery2/main.php" target="_blank">http://amit.with-linux.com/gallery2/main.php

Update 21/01/2009: When I was on vacation I took some photos which you can buy <a href="http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in" target="_blank">here. If you just want to send it to someone, you can go to <a href="http://amit.themafia.info/gallery2" target="_blank">http://amit.themafia.info/gallery2. You would need to check the gallery called ”Yash”

Get you ip address like whatismyip.com

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:41:54 +0000

For last couple of days, I was thinking of putting this. I was thinking of some way to get the IP address of the client directly rather than going through some site or parsing the content. So <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/getip.php" target="_blank">here it is.

Now the trick here is simple. There are two ways to get the IP address of the client in the php script and thus a simple script like the below would capture both of them.

Personal Page and space.

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:45:19 +0000

Now that my other <a href="http://amit.themafia.info/" target="_blank">url is working, I can afford to share some space. If you want to try something on web programming or something else, mail me and I will personally try to see if I can arrange to make some permission chages for you. I am not launching anything for a free service, but for my readers, this is exclusive offer. I will try to arrange something.

My HomeGrown Free web address with unlimited space for no charge.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:24:34 +0000

I have a broadband connection and have been trying to do this for a while. I wanted to setup a URL that could link to my system at my home at ”no extra cost”. To start with this is for fun and finally for profit. As you know, buying a space on the web now a days is costly and I believe saving money is earning money and thus did the setup so that I have a URL that can go directly to my system behind the ADSL router.

My Linux book posted on ethicalhackers.in

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:58:59 +0000

Today I found out that the Linux book I published sometime back is also linked on the following <a href="http://www.ethicalhackers.in/2008/10/simple-linux-user-guide-amit-agarwal/" target="_blank">Link

Thanks Robin for putting this on.. And yes, ethicalhackers.in is definately quite good with contents on Hacking (Ethical).

Feed URL changed.

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:56:23 +0000

This post is to inform all my readers that I will be changing my Feed URL to <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/feed">http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/feed/ from http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/feed/. Please make the necessary changes in your readers.

I was testing these changes and thus my feed was unavailable for some time.

Thanks for understanding and co-operating.

Create Custom Manufactured By Logo in System Properties

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:16:00 +0000

Find the article <a href="http://www.windowhaxor.net/2008/03/26/create-custom-manufactured-by-logo-in-system-properties/">here.

Could not resist posting this, just because of the second image.

<a title="Permanent Link: Create Custom Manufactured By Logo in System Properties" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.windowhaxor.net/2008/03/26/create-custom-manufactured-by-logo-in-system-properties/">Create Custom Manufactured By Logo in System Properties<p class="article-author"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: red;"> By Pavs on March 26th, 2008

- *<p align="center"><a title="1 by pavsma, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10304942@N08/2365752180/"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2365752180_38b4051ca3_m.jpg" alt="1" width="214" height="240" />

The process of creating a custom “Manufactured and Supported by” logo involves two parts.

Types of DNS records

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:14:08 +0000

<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Type: A – Point subdomain.domain.com to a hard coded IP Address. Most direct and straight forward option, also note any change you make in the FreeDNS program is reflected on the internet and made live immediately. The only way you will not see immediate results is if you have cached a query on your computer by looking it up PRIOR to configuring it in the FreeDNS program.

Open-ID integration for login.

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:14:41 +0000

I have been thinking about this for quite sometime now. So here it is finally. I have integreted OpenID login for my blogs, what it would basically mean is that you would be able to see the stats for my site after logging into to my blog site with your OpenID. You are not bothered with captcha if you are logged in.

I think that should make leaving a comment more simpler. Comments please. 🙂

Windows visitor more than Linux visitor :)

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:13:49 +0000

I installed the StatPressCN plugin sometime back, just for fun and to see the stats on the visitors of my blog. Yesterday I was reading a blog entry(dont remember whose), who mentioned that the number of visits on his website was more from windows and thus I thought I will check out the stats on my site. Guess what 🙂

Myfreecopyright notice

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:23:19 +0000

I registered my blog with Myfreecopyright to put a copyright on my work. This is not to discourage people from using my work or refering to my work or blog but to ensure that you give the credit to me for my work.

Ideally I would appreciate people doing traceback or pingback to my blog when refering my work but just a reference to my blog should also suffice.

If you have any doubts on this, feel free to mail me.

Sending SMS the cheaper way.

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:10:37 +0000

I have been working on finding ways to send SMS the cheapest way. Looked at couple of services and tried couple of softwares and gateways but finally found this to be the best way:

<a href="wordpress/send-sms">Send SMS (Only Indian Cell providers)

Some interesting links here:

<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080104051242AAvvNni"><a href="http://www.ananthapuri.com/mobile.asp">http://www.ananthapuri.com/mobile.asp
<a href="http://www.mocolife.com">http://www.mocolife.com

Useful Links

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:25:29 +0000

Added a new addition to my website. <a title="Links" href="http://links.amit-agarwal.co.in">Dew-NewPHPLinks

Looks quite promising for managing web links and sharing them. Hope to see submisssions from my readers too. 🙂

jatss – nice utility for time tracking.

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:15:57 +0000

Found a nice utility on sourceforge called jatss

URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jatss/

Description: JATSS Time Sheet is pile of Perl code hastily thrown together to provide a simple to use time tracking tool for small groups.

Pros: Simple Web UI.

Fast to setup and fix issues.

Cons: Not too many features.

Scratch — Programming for kids

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:53:07 +0000

Scratch <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/about">website.

Description from their site:

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.

Flickr Link on the blog.

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:55:28 +0000

I have managed to install the plugin to display my flickr photos on the blog page. Link is <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/flickr/album/72157601656654651/photo/1231634023/flowers-dscf1435jpg.html">http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/flickr

wordpress upgraaded to latest version

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:20:29 +0000

Upgraded wordpress to version 2.6.2 for some security fixes and new functionalities.