I always get stuck when I try to find a template for my website’s homepage. I’ve tried lot of templates, designed some myself(which sucked a lot), even tried using services like About[dot]me. But none of them truly satisfied me. [Read more...]
Making Skype usable on Fedora 14 and maybe later versions too
I use Skype a lot. But although Skype has a fantastic version for Windows, the Linux part is a bit weak. I run Fedora 14 on my laptop(Compaq CQ42 173TU) and for some reason, Skype wont run on it. With the RPM package of 2.2 Beta, it gets installed but never runs. So I installed the static version of it following this instructions here. But when I would try to run skype from terminal, this error would occur –
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[root@localhost ~]# skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory |
So to check which dependency package I was missing, I searched with YUM –
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[root@localhost ~]# yum whatprovides libXv.so.1 |
and found that this specific package libXv-1.0.5-1.fc13.i686 has that specific file. So although I’m running Fedora 14 and it’s of x86_64 architecture, I installed that package which was meant for Fedora 13 and i686 architecture. Then ran skype from terminal and it worked!
Interfacing external GSM modem with Android Workbench
This video shows the demonstration of interfacing external GSM modem with Android Workbench and controlling it from a Android mobile over bluetooth communication. Here, the android mobile DONT HAVE GSM SIM CARD. The call is processing from external GSM modem connected on the ADK board. [Read more...]
Avail Request Object in Django Form Validation
It may sometime happen that to validate a form field you need to check the value with some existing value from the database related to the User or some other entity. But sadly Django doesn’t allow accessing the Request object in the clean() or clean_<FieldName>() methods. Here is a way around it - [Read more...]
Setup Bridged Network inside VirtualBox on Debian/Ubuntu
I cannot stay away from Terminal. 
So I was setting up a debian box inside my Windows installation. I downloaded a net installation image of Debian 6.0.3 (debian-6.0.3-i386-netinst.iso) and booted into it in VirtualBox. Well, while installing it, VB was in NAT mode and I didn’t notice that. So the installer configured the OS according to NAT mode and I had the network connection after I logged in. But as I wanted to run few server applications, I needed the OS to use a bridged connection. So I opened the network configuration of VB, changed it to Bridged Adapter mode, selected by adapter, hit Ok, then restarted the network service in the box and tried to ping google. But got error. The network wasn’t working.
PHP Console Inside Your Browser
I was looking for a tool where I can write a little snippet in PHP and test it out/debug really quickly. First thought of something like these online compilers, like IDEONE. But it’s too heavy for my taste. I needed something faster. Yesterday, came across this blog post from Jordi Boggiano, who saved some work of mine(and lot of other developers) and made a tool that can run inside your browser, and let you run and debug PHP codes with ease, and it’s also FAST. [Read more...]
Manage Your Cloud Server Easily Using Virtualmin
A friend of mine owns an AWS(Amazon Web Services) account and wants to run an EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instance for his domain. But the problem is, he is not much technically sound to handle the Ubuntu server himself. A solution like cPanel is much better for him because then he can just click and have stuffs done, without writing a single line of command. But sadly, cPanel aint free. So is there any free alternative? I searched a bit and found that Webmin and its derivative Virtualmin matches the criterion perfectly. [Read more...]
A Quick Tour to World of Programming
An infographic on the world of programming. How it began and who all carried it to where it is now.
Modifying MySQL Database using C#.NET
To modify MySQL databases using C#.NET or any language using .NET framework, you must first install the MySQL Connector for .NET. You can download it from here. Avoid v6.3.6 for now, as I’ve discussed in a previous post, that version might have some bugs. Go the the previous versions section and download v6.3.4 instead. After you’ve downloaded it, install. [Read more...]
Validating Regular Expression
One of my basic beliefs – Regular Expression is God-Gifted.. Its hard to find something that can be so simple but so much useful.. All for these reasons, I end up using RegEx whenever I have some pattern matching business. And for that to be perfect, I need a cool RegEx validator.
