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Author: Jude Pereira

  • noCD? |boot from usb| Sabayon Linux

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    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 often getting playback codecs, well, Sabayon has them pre-installed Sabayon has focused on the base…

  • Restore Broken Package DB on Sabayon

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    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: Please use this function ONLY if you are using an Entropy-aware distribution. Can I continue…

  • Defining Two Different System Gateways

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    Situation above ground forces: You have two modems, or two ethernet connections, and want part of your connections to go through ppp0, and the rest through ppp1 Quick Fix: Quite easy, get both your connections live, and ppp0 will by default be the default gateway. Now, use a proxy for all other connections, so if…

  • Fedora Constantine, SYSRQ and needless swapping

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    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 kernel.sysrq = 0 to kernel.sysrq = 1 Some kernel updates on fedora also have the tendency to write to swap needlessly, even though…

  • Visual Basic drinking Wine

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    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, etc. $ winetricks ddr=gdi vb6run gecko gdiplus fontfix d3dx9 corefonts mdac_typ dcom98 From a working…

  • Upgrade WordPress, eh?

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    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 one doesn’t. Here are five reasons why not to upgrade WordPress! Your present theme(which you…

  • You should not use Airtel

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    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 scheme, “Nightly Month@Rs. 89”, displayed at *567#, is that you get 100MB during the day…

  • Easily Sort Your Music Library

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    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: will display many errors, but it does it fine, those errors are not to be…

  • NON-Standards Compliant C++ with Mumbai University

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    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 <conio.h> void main() { cout << "Hello"; } The above code, when compiled with g++…

  • Managing Your Gentoo [“Sort-Of” Easily], Tips, and More

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    ***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 it, then it’ll be an exception for you. Yes, it really is easy if you…

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

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    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 platform but I guess Mac would also do) Let’s get started, shall we? First create…

  • EyeCandy for your VIA Unichrome

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    Not until recently, did I find out about the EXA acceleration method of xorg. It’s the new acceleration architecture. Well, I tried it out, read that it had chances of decreasing the responsiveness of my computer, but hey, there’ no harm in trying it. So, got to their documentation, followed through the steps, and wow!!!…

  • Sabayon fOuR oH

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    Based on Gentoo, Sabayon 4.1, tells me: Great performance with less RAM(though you need like 1GB RAM for it to work well enough). Package Management System is absolutely fantastic, with it’s new “Entropy”. Totally the perfect distribution. A fine distribution for the newbie or the expert. This is what a critic would say: Definitely better…

  • Finally it all pays off!!!

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    Yipee!!! I got 78.86% ! All the hardwork for five months pays back. Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Examination 2009 Index No T/6563/015 Name JUDE BENEDICT PEREIRA School ST. MARY’S HIGH SCHOOL,MOUNT ABU Date of Birth 28/10/1993 Subject Percentage Marks ENG 78 HIN 72 EED 86 HCG 76 MAT 74 SCI 72 CTA 94 SUPW…

  • [HOWTO] Dynamic Plugins for WordPress

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    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 that for my other two themes, displayed two posts per page. I posted a topic…