Microsoft Windows
Windows Vs Linux – One more time
2017/04/07
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 …
IE8 – Developer Tools
2013/04/15
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 …
gqlplus – sqlplus with readline (tab completion)
2012/08/03
Tab completion is something which is missing in the sqlplus and if you have lot of tables with long names or lot of columns then it is sufficiently difficult to type them 🙂 Here is a solution for this …
Music players on Linux – the poor mans random song player.
2012/07/20
If you have more applications running on your system then your system can handle them then you know what I mean when I say that the Music Players take a lot of CPU. Otherwise harmless, but when you …
unable to browse windows network with samba4
2012/05/27
I use Fedora 17 on my work laptop and thus need to connect to windows share sometimes. After I upgraded to Fedora 17 some time, I was unable to browse the windows network. I would get all kind of …
quadkonsole – multiple consoles to make your life easier
2011/11/21
First lets install quadkonsole: yum install quadkonsole Now, to launch the quadkonsole, just type quadkonsole in the run box (appears with Alt+F2). You will by default see 4 console windows in single …
some interesting alias
2011/09/27
For this time, I will just give you a link to to bashrc file. http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/aliases.bash Head over there and see some very interesting aliase’s.
Fast and bleeding edge Firefox.. version 7
2011/06/30
Firefox 7.0 nightly builds have started and it seems to be quite fast. So, if you dont care about some sites not opening or once in a while your browser crashing, been using for 2 days on Windows , …
RawTherapee — Raw imagr processor for all platforms
2011/05/30
Image via Wikipedia […] Do watch this series for more information on my adventure with Windows in Dubai and Photography…. For the impatient ones, download the application here. Recently I was …
browsing the windows machines and their shares – listing
2011/04/30
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.
client lanman auth is disabled error for samba
2011/04/28
The error: […] Server requested LANMAN password (share-level security) but ‘client lanman auth’ is disabled […] is easily fixable. You just need to tell samba that client lanman auth is …
use finch, less memory and cpu usage, in replacement for pidgin.
2011/03/27
Well, if you are on linux then you have options – is a known fact. But how those options help? I was working on a machine which had very less RAM and was quite old system and it was running F14. Guess …