How To Display / Delete IP Route Cache on Linux

October 14th, 2007 Autoexec.bat is a legacy file in Windows which is executed every time you start Windows. Commands you want to run with startup of windows, and applicable to all users, are added to autoexec.bat.

June 8th, 2008 India has infrastructural issues which impedes the progress of IT industry today. One of the major one is the availability of reliable high-speed broadband service.

June 13th, 2007 Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro & Gold collects and display useful statistics on the functionality of the plugin as well as the intelligent caching engine. The statistics is available from Translator Plugin Pro Options panel in Basic tab and in Advanced -> Cache Management tab.

April 26th, 2006 Most of highly trafficked and highly commented wordpress blogs rely upon some smart caching solution or another. However it may not be enough to prevent slowing down your server if your post(s) are heavily commented upon.

November 5th, 2008 vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers.

June 15th, 2006 How can you recursively delete files and directories in windows? You can select them in explorer (in windows) and delete it, right? The problem with the explorer approach is that if one or more files and / or directories cannot be deleted then the whole process fails. Try cleaning your Local Settings\temp directory to see an example.

July 1st, 2007 Rapidshare is a popular site for sharing files. With free access you can only download 1 file per hour.

February 13th, 2008 Please read the original article - How To: Load Balancing & Failover With Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux. It contains detailed information with a sample script.

November 23rd, 2007 I learned it the hard way. Our gateway machine with firewall (shorewall) has multiple ADSL connections configured with load balancing for more bandwidth and transparent fail-over.

January 19th, 2009 This is such a simple trick that if I tell you how, you will laugh your hearts out. But its extremely useful nonetheless.

May 2nd, 2007 The Trashcan on your Fedora Core desktop (tested for gnome) is actually located in ~/Trash directory. So a simple commaond as below should clear your trash: rm -rf ~/.Trash/* Why did I need this? There were some files in the Trash can which I didn't have permission to clean.

June 3rd, 2007 Linux comes with automatic setup for dual-monitors like windows. However I found the gnome applet rather buggy and unusable.

March 13th, 2009 Annoyed with heap of file which are consuming space in your trash bin and you can not do a thing about it? Every time you try to delete it from there, permissions violation errors generate. So what do you do? Will you keep it there ignoring anything? Well, I haave a solution for you.

July 29th, 2007 Broadband service in India is much less reliable than their counterparts in USA. While in USA, I used Pacific Bell 1.5 Mbps connection for 3 years without a single minute of downtime or any other problems.

November 27th, 2007 To delete duplicates from a MySQL database table I normally copy the duplicate data first to a temporary table and then use the copied id's to delete from the original table. Delete using the temporary can take two forms.