For last couple of time I had tried to set the captcha to avoid spam. Getting nearly 2-3 spam now everyday and is on the increasing side, so finally I worked out to put the spam control meaasure – captcha’s.
With the captcha’s in place, I have removed the moderation on the comments, but still reserver the right to remove a comment without any reason.
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Continue reading<a href="http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/download/" target="_blank">Download from here, AndreaMosaic. It us cinoketekt free for personal use and does just what the name says, creates mosaic. I tried this on Linux and was flawless with wine. Good show 🙂
Here’s how to use it:
Start AndreaMosaic
<img class="size-full wp-image-657" title="andreamosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot-andreamosaic2.jpg" alt="andreamosaic" width="585" height="477" /><div class="zemanta-pixie">and select your base file by clicking on the ”+”:<img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/pixy.gif" alt="" />
<img class="size-full wp-image-658" title="andreamosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot-andreamosaic.jpg" alt="Base image" width="585" height="477" />
Here’s a quick tip for faster DNS response time. I installed a local DNS server which can contact the remote DNS server and enabled caching for the local DNS server. This ensures that the response time for the DNS queries is much faster.
I am on Fedora 10, so here’s what I was required to do:
yum install dnsmasq
After this I created a file called /etc/resolve.dns with the nameserver address’s and heres what it looks like:
Continue reading$ rm !(.foo|.bar|*.baz)
Deletes all files in a folder that are NOT *.foo, *.bar or *.baz files. Edit the pattern inside the brackets as you like.
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Continue readinggdmsetup is the command you are looking for… Just run gdmsetup and you get a whole lot of configurations that you can modify.
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There are a lot of reasons to customize your own Linux kernel: better performance, bugfixes, try out new features, and earn valuable geekcreds. In this new series Akkana Peck introduces us to the fundamental steps of building a Linux kernel.
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<a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/do-not-close-stderr.html">A few years ago, I wrote a post commenting on how ugly this was:
$ someprog 2>/dev/null
I was nearly imploring the reader to close stderr:
$ someprog 2>&-
Some very knowledgeable anonymous commenter explained why that was a bad idea. At the time, I didn’t understand exactly what they were saying. As such, …
