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 …
Copying files from one unix box to another with scp
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 …
Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator
My friend Arun created an Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator as a hobby project sometime in his college. It's written with php and javascript.
If you're into 8085 programming, do try it out and let me/Arun know.
http://labs.kitiyo.com/8085/free-online-assember-simulator-8085.html
Useful vim commands
I use vim at work for most of my text editing purposes. Vim is a very powerful editor. However, it comes with a somewhat steep learning curve. The best place to learn it would be the vimtutor program. It's got a pretty good "for dummies" approach which is useful if …
The most difficult captcha there is
I was browsing through the site of a celebrity recently and came across the contact page. I was shocked to find the captcha there. Take a look yourself and be amazed : http://www.gulpanag.net/contact_gul_panag.php
Why would anyone display the captcha as text ready for a bot passing …
Mobile updates on Orkut?
A while ago I got a message on my mobile from "TM-Orkut". It was a scrap written by a friend on my Orkut scrapbook. I suppose this means they're trying out mobile updates. There's nothing about this yet on the Orkut blog. Looking forward to this feature. Hope it comes …
Hoax mail from "Microsoft"
This is a mail I got
Dear Microsoft Customer,
Please notice that Microsoft company has recently issued a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows. The update applies to the following OS versions: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millenium, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista.
Please notice, that …
I want a new earphone and an mp3 player
Long time since my last post :D This time I've a question for the community.
I was thinking of getting myself a portable audio player and an earphone. Haven't yet fully decided on what to buy though. I was thinking of getting a Sennheiser CX 300 or 400. No clue …
Carl Icahn and Yahoo!
Saw an article on Wired about Carl Icahn and Yahoo! Basically Icahn wants to replace the current board of directors at Yahoo! with his own and pursue the Microsoft deal all over again. The New York Times has published the letter sent by Icahn to the chairman of Yahoo.
I …
Using Windows partitions from Debian GNU/Linux
My friend Arun recently blogged about Automounting filesystems in Linux from a Fedora perspective. For those of you who want an alternative method (especially Debian users), here goes...
I'll explain how I did it - it's much easier to understand from an example.
First of all, I used fdisk so I …
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