Airtel does not need old customers
2010/03/01
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 …
Minimize the download size for updates.
2010/02/10
Fedora has rolled out presto repositories. What this means to the users is that the download size for the updates would be greatly reduced. To use the feature, first install the yum plugin: […] …
Top 10 most ridiculous Windows Vista error messages – priceless though!!!
2010/02/10
Windows Vista is always in the news on the blogosphere about how effective it performs. No matter what version of Vista you may be running, it’s possible that you may have already seen these error …
Openoffice.org and/or Excel useful tips.
2010/02/10
Today I was working on Excel sheets and had to do quite a lot of manipulations. Here are some of those: […] You can use the indirect function. Here is example: <a …
Annotating the photograph with comments.
2010/02/10
There is a nice Linux command called convert. This command can be used in various ways to do image manipulation. One of them is to embark your image with some text. Here is how to do it. **echo …
Script to Watch for Ubuntu 9.10 Launch – can be used in other scenarios.
2010/02/10
I know ubuntu is out already but this is something that you can use to monitor a webpage. This script will run check a for the Ubuntu 9.10 launch once every 5 mins and let you know when it’s …
bash script with sql to get the number of records from multiple tables.
2010/02/10
Here is the bash script: […] #!/bin/sh names[1]=errorlog names[2]=amit1log names[3]=amit2log names[4]=amit3log names[5]=amit4log j=1 echo $1 for i in $( sqlplus amit/passwd@tns @get_count.sql …
x-marks saving lives.
2010/02/04
Couple of days back my TeraByte HDD crashed and I lost almost everything, including my homedir. I will tell you my experiences and how my measures helped me lose not much data. So I will begin with …
PackageKit error File \”/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py\”, line 1215, in _get_depends_not_installed – Resolved
2010/02/04
In packagekit, if you getting the error below: […] Traceback (most recent call last): File ”/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py”, line 1215, in …
How To Build A Self-hosted WordPress Blog For Free
2010/02/04
A blog is a layman-friendly variation of a website, and having a blog is one of the many ways to state your presence in the virtual world. While there are many hassle-free blog services out there that …
Splitting strings with IFS
2010/02/04
Today I want to discuss splitting strings into tokens or “words”. I previously discussed how to do this with the <a …
Kill processes that have been running for more than a week
2010/02/04
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