Update : IRCTC has blocked Quick book from 8 AM - 9 AM. This method will not be useful in such a scenario.
This article is a short demo to using Firefox's Autofill Forms extension to book tatkal tickets. First step is to go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon …
Google announced that it's making 2 DNS servers available publicly. The servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . They've also givenconfiguration instructions on their DNS page. I configured my /etc/resolv.conf to refer to Google's DNS. Before this I ran some quick tests using …
If you've been using Wordpress you probably know about Gravatar. Gravatar is an abbreviation for "Globally Recognized Avatar". It's a service which provides an avatar across sites. While Gravatar support is built-in in Wordpress, it requires an external module to be installed in Drupal. Recently I had to use the …
Some of you using the vim editor may not know about a tool that comes with vim called vimdiff. Vimdiff is an awesome way to diff files if you are a vim nut. It gives you the power of vim + the power of diff.
How's this different from opening 2 …
Was checking out this blog's visitor stats recently when I came across this User Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 GTB5". I was wondering what GTB5 was. Some googling and testing later I found out that …
You might have come across a situation where your regular usage of the cp command for copying files in your linux box was not enough because while copying you needed to preserve the permissions of the files. Fret not, for help is at hand. Take a look at the man …
September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.For this day, the Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) team announced on the YDN blog that they were bringing out a "pirate table". This table would allow us to translate plain English to piratespeak using YQL. I had been meaning to play …
My friend Arun Prabhakar recently started playing around with some visitor stats reporting for his site. He has been gracious enough to extend the service to his friends and now the public as well(by invitation only) :) The service is still in beta, so occassional hiccups might occur. He's been …
ssh is a very powerful and widely used protocol in all the Unices. If you've used the ssh client in your Unix/Linux box, you must have realised how indispensable it is. There is another indispensable tool that uses the ssh protocol - scp (secure copy). scp was meant to be …