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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…