Monthly Archives: March 2010

How slow is our high speed internet dreams?

Everyone has dreams. Not only persons but nations also have dreams. India’ biggest dream is to become a developed nation by 2020. We have been a poor country for decades, then we got the status of developing nation. Now we are running to get the unique status of a developed nation. India is the youngest country in the world. Japan, …

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Debian lenny Colorful Bash prompt and file names

Fancy bash and ls color is helpful feature in linux. Once we install Debian lenny, the bash prompt and ls result will show in normal ( black and white ). so i planed to make some changes in the profile file. This will helpful for Linux server administrators. To change in to a colorful prompt do following, Open /etc/profile It …

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“alias” use it for a good reason

In Linux we all work with lots of log files, like mail, squid, application etc…., all these files located in its own folder, for example, if we want to look for squid access log to monitor the site access, generally we do tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log, this involves lots of typing, we can make this simple with alias command in linux …

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Bulk image resize with Microsoft office picture manager

You can resize large number of images at same time. Many time it is a main requirement to reduce the size of images and upload it to web. When we copy photos from a Digital camera, File size will be too large, It is not required that much resolutions for sharing images over the web.  So we can reduce the …

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Printing command from history without executing

We all know that, BASH stores the commands we entered in the terminal to .bash_history, we can see those commands using history command. Commands in the history can be executed by ! followed by the number,  !5 (5th command in the history will get executed). But what if we only need to print the command, instead of executing, we can …

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Super-fast broadband – The US choice

Now speed is the way of life. In this digital era speed determines everything. From news to day today affairs speed is essential. According to BBC report United States of America takes speed to the next level. For the internet users across the globe, speed is as important as their lives. Recently US government unveiled a plan to give super-fast …

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Login multiple Gtalk account same time

you can login to multiple Gtalk accounts simultaneously. Many people have more than one google account (Personal, Official). You have to apply “nomutex” syntax for googletalk.exe to open multiple Google talk accounts.

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Tabbed mobile browser – Opera Mini 5

Opera has released the new version of mobile browser Opera mini. This time opera introduce Mobile browser with Tabbed browsing. Opera mini 5 have some new features like speed dial, password manager, virtual keyboard etc. full screen mode is also a great advantage for Opera mini. Now Opera mini is also available for android. Opera Mini compresses pages by up …

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BarCamp Kerala 8

We are holding BarCamp Kerala 8 on 28th of March(2010)!. Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time. Think barcamp is about lawyers? Or about alcoholics? Think again… BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, …

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