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 »
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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 »
BarCampMumbai5 – The Experience, The Firsts
Sunday February 1 2009 was the day when BarCampMumbai 5 was held with the same old enthusiasm but at a whole new venue – VJTI College, Matunga. The camp was host to many firsts for the BCM as well as for me. First time BCM was held outside IIT-B. First BCM without any sponsorship. It… Read more »
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 »
BCM4
BarCampMumbai is back again. The same venue, different format. BCM4 is happening on 4th-5th October 2008 at IIT Powai. Yeah, you read it right it's a 2 day event this time around. There are some other changes too, for better and for worse – as you see it. This time around only way to get… 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 »
Finch – IM Client for command line
Finch is an IM and IRC client for command line. It supports all the protocols supported by pidgin. Like pidgin, it makes use of libpurple. So, all your account configured for pidgin can be used on finch too . It has nifty shortcuts based on alt keys to navigate around. Making it quite simple to… Read more »
Start rtorrent using init scripts
Searching around the net I came across 2 articles which helped in writing the init script presented below. There are 3 versions of the script – one for gentoo based distros one for debian based distros and one for Fedora, which is quite similar to debian one. Requirements for running the scripts rtorrent screen adequate… Read more »
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