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…
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…
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…
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…
Finch – IM Client for command line
Finch is an IM and IRC client for command line. It supports all the protocols supported by pidgin. Like pidgin, it makes use of libpurple. So, all your account configured for pidgin can be used on finch too . It…
Start rtorrent using init scripts
Searching around the net I came across 2 articles which helped in writing the init script presented below. There are 3 versions of the script – one for gentoo based distros one for debian based distros and one for Fedora,…