I had a task of moving emails from an old server to a new server. Considering that stream of emails would be coming in on the live server, rsync didn’t look like a good option to sync the Maildirs. So,…
Getting Lava 720G to work in Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 Beta
I have a Lava 720g 3G USB modem. The modem is supported by the usb_modeswitch distributed with Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 Beta. But, despite that it doesn’t connect out of the box. Here’s a very simple way in which I…
Web.py on lighttpd
So, I wanted to host a small project made in web.py on my current server. I am running lighttpd as my HTTP server. The process to set it up is pretty straight forward as explained in the webpy documentation. I…
Mediawiki on dotcloud
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…
Connecting GSM modem via CLI using NetworkManager
After getting my new HDD couple of days back, I decided to install Arch Linux on it. The idea with Arch is to sufficiently control what goes into my system but without too much management overhead unlike in Gentoo. Thus,…
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…
Bye Bye Twitter, Bye Bye Facebook
Many people have been asking me as to why I quit twitter? And haven't got a proper reply from me. I do owe them a reply, and here it is. I have been a bit prone to mood swings, and…
Public Transport v/s Private Transport – My Take
The Problem With each passing day, the traffic situation in Mumbai is worsening. Big traffic jams, accicents, parking woes, etc. Various solutions have been proposed to combat this problem. Here's a slightly outdated statistical information on the traffic growth in…
Night Cycling
Mumbai is popularly known as city that never sleeps. I have been a witness and contributor to it since college days. Those days we used to spend time with friends sitting around Churchgate station having chai and bun maska or…