Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

You can download Tamil Unicode fonts for Windows here. This has some 12 fonts and this is an installer which will copy all fonts to the default Windows font's directory and register those fonts.


This blog is discontinued. I don't post here anymore. The new blog is hosted on my site. It is at http://praveen.kumar.in


When I was installing Gallery 2, I was facing a problem. Gallery 2 needs PHP safe mdoe to be disabled. My host enabled it by default. I have tried to change it using '.htaccess'. But, it was not working. Finally, I have changed the apache configuration and made it work ...


I am planning to do some experiments on User mode linux this weekend.


I am using the mobile phone service (GSM) from Airtel. These guys are really annoying me now-a-days. I am receiving atleast a couple of self promotional SMS from Airtel. I am getting too irritated by this. I have called theier customer care, complained about it and asked them to stop ...


I am planning to go for the BSNL Dataone broadband connection. I am aleady using Sify broadband that really sucks. Most of the time, there is some problem with the connectivity. So, I am planning to ditch Sify and go for BSNL. It seems that a guy out here at ...


The HSBC (India)'s online banking page fails to come up in Firefox running under Linux. The cranky webmaster wants me to use IE or some other supported browser. I think HSBC people should fix this issue soon. I have raised this issue to thier attention. But no reply so ...


By default, Wordpress doesn't support threaded (nested) comments. I have looked out for this option and found a plugin here. I have just installed and configured it. I am gonna try out its operation in this post.


I have installed and configured Spam Karma and Referrer Karma to this blog. Earlier in my test implementation of Wordpress, I was receiving spam comments at an approximate rate of 5 - 10 every day. These two tools seems to control the spam actively. I have found Blogginpro using these two ...


After a hell of searches, I have come across the right theme, Gila. It perfectly matches what I wanted, three column design that uses 100% of the page width. Gila is really too cool. The only problem that I heard about it is that the pages that contain small post ...