Where is my Crontab File Located?

January 5th, 2009 Firefox, statistically the most popular browser in the world has a lot that is to be explored still. Though we have regularly fed you to better your firefox experience, the resource-hungriness of Firefox has always been under question.

October 8th, 2007 PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems.

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 29th, 2007 I needed to run Synergy server for my triple monitor setup at startup of Gnome session. crontab isn't going to help here.

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.

April 21st, 2007 ADSL conenctions are flaky in Calcuta. They tend to go out often and stay off for prolonged periods.

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.

January 15th, 2009 Suppose you were concentrating hard to develop something new and editing a file in vim editor. Just when you thought you are done with the problem, the save option reminded you how unfortunate you are.

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.

September 12th, 2008 I was doing something very simple - connecting to my own machine (with ssh) without using password. That should be simple right? I dutifully appended my id_dsa.pub to authorized_keys and expected that it would work.

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.