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visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine

Visual Basic

Earlier this year, I had written an article on running Visual Basic 6 on linux under wine, this is an update for it, the prior one is depreciated Getting Visual Basic 6 to work on linux is pretty easy, not … Continue reading →

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embedded gentoo [uclibc] | nothing beats this

gentoo-wordle-table

A few uclibc embedded gentoo facts: the compilation of the box takes around 15 minutes at boot up, takes less than 3 megabytes of RAM disk space: 17 megabytes boots in under 8 seconds on a pentium3 link to stage3 … Continue reading →

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noCD? |boot from usb| Sabayon Linux

Sabayon Linux, the ultimate distro, on my desktop

I had a pen-drive lying around, and so I decided to try out a new distribution of linux, Sabayon Linux. Why Sabayon? On a base install, everything is there and just works perfectly For a newbie, the hard part is … Continue reading →

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Restore Broken Package DB on Sabayon

Sabayon's Empty Repository

System database not found or corrupted, running in safe mode using temporary, empty repository phoenix jude # equo rescue resurrect >> ####### ATTENTION: The installed package database will be resurrected, this will take a LOT of time. >> ####### ATTENTION: … Continue reading →

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Easily Sort Your Music Library

Here is a very simple script to sort your whole music library according to their artists, #!/bin/bash # sortMusic v0.4 # make sure this script in in the music directory and you execute this script from there # know issue: … Continue reading →

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NON-Standards Compliant C++ with Mumbai University

Mumbai University fails to keep up with the ever-evolving C++ syntax. Making Turbo C/C++ as their prescribed IDE, Turbo C/C++ is ancient and will not compile with the present syntax of C++. Here is the simplest example: #include <iostream.h> #include … Continue reading →

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[HOWTO] Create a hidden loopback device in a .jpg file

Well, I’m sure that you are definitely curious about how do you do this. Let me tell you this, it’s really simple. Pre-requisites: Image File(any format will do or even any file will do) Linux(I’ve only tested it on this … Continue reading →

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[HOWTO] Dynamic Plugins for WordPress

Problem: Installed the hemingwayEx theme. Looks great, but the pagination doesn’t work well without the custom hemingwayEx pagination plugin. I got that installed. The hemmingwayEx theme looks cool when it displays two posts per page. The plugin worked well except … Continue reading →

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