Posts By: Mehul
Access VirtualBox Guest Network From Outside
I have been looking for a way to enabling network inside virtualbox so that I can access it from anywhere thus being able to run various services inside virtual environment, trying out anything without any worries. Here’s a simple how-to borrowed from archlinux wiki Install bridge utils for creating bridge and uml_utilities for creating a… Read more »
Some nifty fun with Linux and PDF files
Let me narrate 3 nice experiences with pdf on Linux while at work 1) Merging multiple PDF files gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=filename.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf……..fileN.pdf 2) Convert ps to pdf ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf 3) Compressing PDF files. 4) Convert images to PDF convert image1.jpg image2.gif image3.tiff…….imageN.xyz filename.pdf
Viewing MS Word files on Command Line
I had to urgently view a MS Word file but I didn’t have a word processor on my system to view it in, KWord2 beta wasn’t able to support MS Word files. And I couldn’t find any small word processor or the one that wouldn’t being a gnome and a half in with itself. So,… Read more »
2 Minutes To Your Own Planet
Heh! Please don’t mistake me for one of those LHC guys. No, I am not talking about planets as in heavenly bodies which reflect lights from the stars but have give out no light on their own. I am talking about planet as in a feed aggregator. Firstly, planet is a web based feed aggregator… Read more »
Using tor and privoxy in linux
No how-to from my side this time around. But a nice link I followed to setup tor and privoxy on my machine. It’s really easy to follow and straightforward. http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/privoxy/setup-tor–privoxy-for-anonymous-searching.html Probably I will write a how-to on customising privoxy to block ads, unwanted url’s, redirect machines on the network to use tor and privoxy using… Read more »
Installing MaraDNS
Today on ##linux-india at irc.freenode.net people were discussing about DNS and the recent DNS security issue and it’s implications and solutions. So, I decided to try out the test for my ISP’s nameservers, the default nameservers that I use. The test can be found on Kaminsky’s Website. The test confirmed that my ISP’s nameservers aren’t… Read more »
Hurray! Got my webcam working on linux
I was sitting at night browsing some friend’s blogs and adding RSS feeds to Akregator, after my new found fondness for KDE 4(more on that in a later post). Then Gaurish Sharma asked how to get webcam and fingerprint scanner to work on linux. I didn’t really have much clue but asked him to dig… Read more »
qingy – a desktop manager with a difference
What is qingy? Here’s the quote from qingy developers Quote: qingy is a replacement for getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde, wmaker,… Read more »
Experience of emoving mysql in debian/ubuntu forcefully
I had faced this instance where there ocurred problem with mysql configuration in debian. Something went wrong with the configuration and could not be traced out. We needed to fix it soon and reinstall was the easy option as there was no useful data. But, the package couldn’t be removed because mysql is stopped before… Read more »
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