Deleting all mails in the N900 (Maemo 5) permanently

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

My Photos in the Nikon d5100 contest.

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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faster bash operations on files with File Descriptors.

I was writing a bash script that would do some operations and read and write to file. Seems that that was pretty simple with

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and then use redirection operations like “>” and “»” to write to file. Done with the script pretty fast. So far so good, when I went for real life tests, no one was interested in using it, why? Simple, it was simply taking too long. The file was reading about 10K lines and writing about 50 lines and was taking about more than 10 minutes.

Registrations restricted for some time

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.

N900 starts showing junk characters

Well, sometime back I bought N900, some snaps here. And sooner than later I started playing with it. In an effort to reduce the disk usage for the “/” (root) partition, I removed some packages that were taking too much of space and managed to get the mobile to a stage where a lot of applications started displaying strange and junk characters and also cannot use package manager any more…errors reported.

Total upload and download on any interface.

Something that I have been searching for a long time, finally some look inside the <a class=“zem_slink” title=“Procfs” rel=“wikipedia” href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs" _mce_href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs">/proc got me what I wanted. Hope this will save someone’s day. So far, the only option I could think of was to run conky which becomes a little heave on some of the very old laptops I have to use sometimes 🙁

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Corruption, India and Social Activist

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: