Fedora Constantine, SYSRQ and needless swapping

By default, fedora disables the SYSRQ functionality of the kernel, for some reason. To enable it, either add sysrq_always_enabled at the end of your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.conf, or edit /etc/sysctl.conf, changing [sourcecode language='bash']kernel.sysrq = 0[/sourcecode] to [sourcecode language='bash']kernel.sysrq = … Continue reading →

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Visual Basic drinking Wine

Visual Basic running on Fedora

This tutorial is depreciated, please follow my new tutorial: visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine Get past with your life on Windows, install Microsoft Visual Basic 6 on GNU/Linux with some good old wine… Install the required libs, … Continue reading →

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Upgrade WordPress, eh?

Here’s what most, or at least all of you are doing: your upgrading your WordPress blog back-end from time to time as and when releases are out. Most of the articles about this tell you how to upgrade. Well, this … Continue reading →

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You should not use Airtel

No one likes to be controversial about this. I would definitely agree with Airtel and it’s “just awesome” service to me. Now, I rather would not at all. “Airtel has me on the worse side”. Looking at this agreeable GPRS … 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, [sourcecode language='bash'] #!/bin/bash # sortMusic v0.4 # make sure this script in in the music directory and you execute this script from there # … 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: [sourcecode language='c++'] #include … Continue reading →

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Managing Your Gentoo ["Sort-Of" Easily], Tips, and More

***This article has been placed under constant expansion. So keep a check on it!*** Law #1: If anyone tells you that, “To administer a Gentoo Build is easy”, tell him/her to go f*** off. Ofcourse, if your an expert at … 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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