I don’t have an answer for you but I can share my experience so far (not that I am an old guy, I am pretty much near my quarter life but I am starting to get my answers), it might help you in some way. I had no clue on what I wanted to do… Read more »
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How to use short url with sharethis
Using sharethis but disappointed that it doesn’t have shortlink support? If you are someone who is comfortable placing some code in the correct place inside your theme then following will work for you. In comes url-shortener plugin to the rescue. First install and activate sharethis and url shortener plugins. Select your favourite url shortening service in the… Read more »
Moving emails from old server to new server using bash, python and offlineimap
I had a task of moving emails from an old server to a new server. Considering that stream of emails would be coming in on the live server, rsync didn’t look like a good option to sync the Maildirs. So, I searched around the Internet for better solutions. The logically better solutions contained using the… Read more »
Getting Lava 720G to work in Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 Beta
I have a Lava 720g 3G USB modem. The modem is supported by the usb_modeswitch distributed with Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 Beta. But, despite that it doesn’t connect out of the box. Here’s a very simple way in which I got it working. Open a terminal and type following commands in it sudo modprobe usbserial… Read more »
Web.py on lighttpd
So, I wanted to host a small project made in web.py on my current server. I am running lighttpd as my HTTP server. The process to set it up is pretty straight forward as explained in the webpy documentation. I am writing this how-to to cover a couple of things which I didn’t find well… Read more »
Mediawiki on dotcloud
Unfortunately, there’s no guide available for installing mediawiki on dotcloud and googling for it doesn’t turn up anything much useful. But, I had to move out LUG wiki to dotcloud. I proceeded with it while refering to drupal documentation. At the moment, I don’t have a guide on installing mediawiki but I can highlight the… Read more »
Connecting GSM modem via CLI using NetworkManager
After getting my new HDD couple of days back, I decided to install Arch Linux on it. The idea with Arch is to sufficiently control what goes into my system but without too much management overhead unlike in Gentoo. Thus, I installed stated with Core install of Arch and added fluxbox over it as my… Read more »
WordPress Performance Tips
Do you find performance of your WordPress blog to be lousy? And have no clue on where to start with it? There are lots of articles on the Internet which will tell you what to do. So, instead of repeating the same, I’ll cover each aspect and links to articles which provide useful how-to’s on… Read more »
Bye Bye Twitter, Bye Bye Facebook
Many people have been asking me as to why I quit twitter? And haven't got a proper reply from me. I do owe them a reply, and here it is. I have been a bit prone to mood swings, and at the beginning of December when I started feeling low, I thought it was just… Read more »
Public Transport v/s Private Transport – My Take
The Problem With each passing day, the traffic situation in Mumbai is worsening. Big traffic jams, accicents, parking woes, etc. Various solutions have been proposed to combat this problem. Here's a slightly outdated statistical information on the traffic growth in Mumbai from 2005 to 2008. An annualised growth of 12%! That was 1.5 years ago,… Read more »
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