Trick: Restart only Windows, not your Computer

March 13th, 2009 Okay letting automatic updates wasn't enough. When they finish, you are prompted to restart your computer.

December 27th, 2008 Do you want to change  Windows name to yours. Then follow the trick.

March 25th, 2005 I often work with multiple webpages open at the same time. I have tendency to use online documentations and work mostly on browser based applications.

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.

May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.

December 27th, 2008 I know that Windows runs super slow in some people's machine. And try as hard as you can but you can seldom find a good reason for the slowing up or a remedy to it.

April 27th, 2009 Suppose you want to change and enable the remote access to MySQL DB on your linux server (Debian). By default, you don't get such privileges so you will have to work your way through this.

April 20th, 2008 There is an old trick from Dos days (still valid in all windows under cmd prompt or even command.com) when we wanted to create a quick file without loading up edit (edit.com) was to use copy con. The exact syntax is: copy con filename Subsequent lines you type are copied to the file.

March 28th, 2009 I am sure even if you use Fedora or CentOS, you have had fair share of irritation caused by system hangs. Of course no one can doubt Microsoft Windows' supremacy in this event but still, any kind of system hang interrupt our whole process of working and thinking in a big way.

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.

November 6th, 2008 Windows 7 is going to continue the trend of rearm process in Windows 7 as well, that they did in Windows Vista. So here is a guide how you can increase the evaluation trail period by three times or more explicitly 120 days.

August 4th, 2008 You may see the following error in Fedora 8 while starting / restarting the network (service network restart): FATAL: Module off not found. Let's see how we can fix this.

December 2nd, 2008 Are you really annoyed with Windows Instant Messenger popping up every time you log into your internet? And if you have used Windows, then you know that unnecessary, unwanted, unacceptable- such terms are nothing but a sheer waste o time. Because you are made to toil for almost every good thing you do from Windows XP.

January 20th, 2009 Have you installed the Windows 7? Are the overhead services running in your background slowing down your system? The rudimentary ideas suggest disabling the unused services in the background to revamp the speed. Now how do you do that in Windows 7.

December 30th, 2008 Its a trivial thing but annoying nevertheless. Suppose you are trying to find some information from a particular folder and your every time your mouse hovers over an icon, Microsoft Windows starts teaching you about that application no matter how blunt! So here is a simple trick which will permanently switch the yellow tooltips off.