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

2010-09-09 1 min read Uncategorized

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 🙂

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2446" title="wibiya error'd" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wibiya-300x162.png" alt="wibiya error'd" width="300" height="162" />

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OpenID for non-SuperUsers

2010-09-07 2 min read Learning Uncategorized

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.

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Download Free calendar for September 2010

2010-09-05 1 min read Photo Uncategorized

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

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2499" title="Calendar September 2010" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/calSep10-300x199.jpg" alt="Calendar September 2010" width="300" height="199" />

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

Hope you like it.

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Fedora Linux – Display information about users currently logged on – whowatch

2010-09-04 2 min read Fedora

Here is description of program/utility to display the currently logged in user in a Linux box (tried on Fedora 13 Goddard):

Whowatch is an interactive console utility that displays informations about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real time. Besides standard information (login, tty, host, user&#8217;s process) you can see type of login (ie. ssh, telnet). You can also see selected user&#8217;s processes tree or all system processes tree.  In the process tree mode there is ability to send INT or KILL signal to selected process.

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Remove some path from the PATH variable temporarily.

2010-09-04 2 min read Bash Linux

How many times has it happened to you that you are working on some linux platform (like Fedora/Ubuntu/CentOS etc) and suddenly you see that you need to remove some path from the PATH variable so that a script is executed from some other path. It really difficult to do this if the path is too long and if you end up doing this couple of times. If that is the case, then the below script is for you 🙂

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Three Touch Up Tricks For Photoshop To Improve Your Photos

2010-09-03 3 min read Photo

Three Touch Up Tricks For <a class="zem_slink" title="Adobe Photoshop" rel="homepage" href="http://adobe.com/photoshop">Photoshop To Improve Your Photos enhancing photos with photoshopThe problem with exceedingly better cameras is that, besides every beautiful detail, they also manage to catch every blemish. The time when you could get away with sunburn, or even something as small as a mole is long past. Those details will be engraved in virtual stone as well.

Nowadays, everyone realizes that <a class="zem_slink" title="Movie star" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_star">movie stars don’t look all that perfect in real life and that <a class="zem_slink" title="Madonna (entertainer)" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000187/">Madonna doesn’t look like a twenty year old, but rather thrice that number. It’s the fault, or blessing, of Photoshop, a premier <a class="zem_slink" title="Image editing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_editing">photo editing application.

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Speed up mkat with no md5sum for the files.

2010-09-02 1 min read Linux

mkat details:

mkat is a set of <a class="zem_slink" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line tools to burn, catalog <a class="zem_slink" title="Data" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data">data CD/<a class="zem_slink" title="DVD" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD">DVD, <a class="zem_slink" title="Compact Disc" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc">audio CDs and then search the catalog <a class="zem_slink" title="Database" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database">database, e.g. check whether you have a certain file or audio CD in your collection. Tags can be used to categorize CDs, e.g. <a class="zem_slink" title="Comedy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy">comedy, <a class="zem_slink" title="Drama" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama">drama, etc. Audio CD support is very rudimentary though.

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