One phase of life over..

I've heard people saying 'college days are the best days of life'.. never thought it will be true until.. i finished college.. Engineering over.. Now its time for doin job.. bye bye to ma frnds.. really heartbreaking moments..

4 years of engineering @ Model Engineering College, Kochi.. Ah.. It got over so fast.. like 4 moments.. still remember the day i joined.. ragging during first year.. hehe..
projects.. arts.. placements.. techfest... everythin was rockin @ MEC..

And now it is temporary bye bye to Kerala also.. Goin to Bangalore.. will be coming to Kerala once in a month hopefully... hmmmm..

Fedora 11.. Set up BSNL Dataone broadband

1. Become root using 'su'

2. Enter 'pppoe-setup'

3. Enter username, password, select the device to be eth0.

4. It will ask you if u want the link to come up on demand. Type in 'no' ..

5. Enter the DNS information as 'server' ...

6. Use the command 'pppoe-start' to start the connection and 'pppoe-stop' to stop it.


and remember one more thing, the package tht provides all these functions is 'rp-pppoe' ...

Apache/Microsoft-IIS conflict

Sometimes, you may find that after installing Apache, its not running. Now the reason may be the conflict with Microsoft-IIS ( Internet Information Services ).
The problem is that both IIS and Apache has default port 80. Now, if u installed Apache using Wamp server, then click on the wamp server icon on the bottom right, select 'Apache', select 'Service' and then click on 'test port'.

If IIS is running, you will be seeing Microsoft-IIS on the newly opened 'cmd' window. To disable IIS, go to Control Panel, click on ' Turn Windows features On/Off'. There you can see 'Internet Information Services', deselect it and your computer will be asked to restart by the OS.

Now on restarting, run the wamp server, and on testing the port 80 again, you will see 'Apache' is running.

Now type in 'http://127.0.0.1/' on your web browser and enjoy!! :)

Installing Apache on Vista

You will always like to test your website before it goes online. To do that, u need to install a web server in your system. Apache is a free web server which has the largest share in the web server market. Here you can find how to install Apache..

I used Wamp server which includes Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL. It install phpMyAdmin and SQLiteManager by default.

First you need to download it from here.

Double click on the downloaded program to install it. Now, run the wamp server. It can be run in Online/Offline modes.

Offline mode means only you from your computer can access it. Online mode means everyone can access your server from anywhere.

Now, the default directory of your website or 'Document Root' is created as " C:/wamp/www/" . To change it, click on the wamp server icon on the bottom right, select Apache, click on 'httpd.conf' . It is the configuration file for apache. You have to edit it at two lines.

1. DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/"

change it to the directory u need.

2. C:/wamp/www/">

change that line also to your directory.


Now try restarting the wamp server. To see the webpages you have placed in your DocumentRoot, open firefox/IE or any browser, type in 'http:/127.0.0.1/'

You should be seeing your 'index.html' file on the browser now.

Click here if you still find Apache not running on your system

saving videos from youtube and similar sites..

Many ways to do tht..

the simple way...

You can use IDM ( Internet download manager ) if u have bought it or cracked it for ur use.. it will automatically ask whether to download or not.. but it got some problems with the latest version of Firefox...

If u r usin firefox, there is a plugin called ' Download helper ' .. things r easy tht way also..

a bit more difficult way..

After watching the video, dont close the window....There is a cache folder firefox is using.. in vista,
C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\something. default\Cache

In xp, the mozilla folder will be in the 'Local Settings' folder..
After entering the folder, just look for the largest files.. except those '_CACHE_00x' files.. u will get wot u were lookin for..

Maxpayne.. on wine.. Ubuntu 9.04..

Works flawlessly..
i ran it at 1680x1050x32 with everythin high.. got nice frame rates.. will post video soon..

Working with CD/DVD images in linux..

Mounting an ISO image..

first create a directory in /media ... first enter the 'media' directory and then use 'sudo mkdir ISO' .. 'ISO' being the directory name..

now mount the image using ' mount ' command..

'sudo mount -o loop /location_of_image /media/ISO'

Now the image has been mounted in the folder /media/ISO

To unmount, use 'sudo umount /media/ISO'

MDF, NRG images

I couldnt mount them with the command given in the above section.. Hence i had to convert the MDF and NRG images to ISO at first and then do the mount..

For this, install 'mdf2iso' and 'nrg2iso' .. now use them to convert the images to ISO..

eg: mdf2iso Game.mdf Game.iso

now the MDF image has been converted to ISO..

Now mount it as given in the previous section..