An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement
I had to connect to a Cisco 3000 VPN gateway for establishing a VPN with my office network. Cisco provides VPN clients for Microsoft Windows and RPMs for Linux. I am basically a Debian user. When I tried alien for converting the RPM into deb file and installing it, the ...
The complete migration of the site to a new host is over. Here are the new changes that are done to the site.
Journal: The URI of the journal is changed. http://journal.praveen.ws is the new URI for the journal. The old URI may still take you here ...
Had to migrate the site to a new server again due to unavoidable reasons. Comments after this point until notified further will be lost. Sorry about the inconvenience!
Google has launched yet another service known as Google Analytics. This service is used for monitoring the traffic of a website. If one has a Google account, he can signup for this service, all for free. One can have multiple sites linked with a given account. The interface between Analytics ...
The following query will be handy if one likes to search and replace a string in a particular column.
update tablename set field = replace(field,'search_for_this','replace_with_this');
To change the splash screen of Gnome, you need to do the following.
/apps/gnome-session/options to store the absolute path of the ...I am really not able to make a clear decision (still) in terms of the distribution to use on my desktop at home (Debian or Ubuntu). I was running Debian SID previously. Once Ubuntu 5.04 was released, I have switched to Ubuntu and came back to Debian again after ...
I have created a project under Sarovar.org to get some web space and mailing list for Indian GNU/Hurd Users Group. Thanks for thier fast response and the site with the mailing list is fully operational now. Have sent an invite to ILUGC. Hope atleast Shakthi and Joe Steeve ...
I have (re)created my GPG key. Here is it.
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The last snapshot of GNU/Hurd that I gave a try was J2. It seems that a lot of things have improved after that. The main thing is that the 2GB limit for the ext2fs is gone now. That is a real great news. I am downloading the Debian port ...