File Archiver Smackdown

January 7th, 2009 How about a simple trick that hides a file in an image? Yes I will give you a simple tip which will hide a file inside an image. So much so that the image file will be a JPEG, look and act like a JPEG too.

October 12th, 2008 Have you ever searched scp manual for ways to append a file using it? scp is an excellent command to rapidly copy files and directories to / from a remote location. Unfortunately it is of no help when you just want to append a file over ssh connection.

April 20th, 2008 PHP is not only a very competent web development language (and part of LAMP stack). It is also a very capable language for writing (command line) scripts.

September 23rd, 2006 This is a simple commandline Java utility which I wrote down in under 5 minutes to help in checking-in (svn commit) over 500 files which were modified but the dates weren't changed due to an error in our settings. So subversion failed to recognize it.

November 14th, 2008 Isn't it pretty annoying to burn any .iso file to make it work? In linux, you have a pretty simple way to mount an iso file without even burning them. This allows you to view the files within the iso file as simply as you would view files in any normal directory.

July 26th, 2006 The following command will recursively search for ant build file in the directories and then its parent directories, till it finds it; and then executes it. In short you can use this command to manage your project from any subdirectory of the project.

June 22nd, 2008 VLC Media Player is a leading player for displaying video on Windows & Linux. It supports a wide variety of formats.

August 19th, 2008 Apache Ant is an excellent and popular Java based build system. It has several built-in commands (tasks in Ant lingo) one of which allows you to create Jar file from your existing class file and resources.

December 25th, 2008 This is a very important trick for Windows users. Though its fairly old still I thought of putting it up finally in case someone needs to copy the outputs of the DOS he is working on.

October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.

July 12th, 2008 In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only.

February 1st, 2005 I realized that Firefox 1.0 download manager often completes abruptly declaring the file download as completed, even when only a portion of the file is downloaded. This is very frequent in slow connections.

January 12th, 2004 Creating link files are necessary for allowing users to easily execute Java programs on windows Sample VB code to create link files is in http://wss.hypermart.net/vb/shortcut.html Another option (simpler for the programmer) may be to just create a batch file (.bat) file which the users double-click to run the application (same as a lnk file). Creating it is much simpler.

August 10th, 2006 Everytime I tried to upload a file to my PmWiki (popular PHP based Wiki) installation, it failed with "no file uploaded" error. Also it asks me for password thrice, once before accessing the upload page and twice after uploading.

November 16th, 2005 I often come across this question: Where is my php.ini located? Here is a simple solution. To find out which php.ini your apache server is using please follow the steps below: 1.