Avinash Joshi

I have been wanting to write a post on “How to download Movies, Books, TV Series from the net“. I hope this will help many. I am sure that many of you watch English series. For instance, some of my favorites are White Collar, How Heroes, Castle, Bones, FRIENDS, I Met Your Mother and in [...]

“Update the recovery options of your Google Accounts (or GMail) and keep your account safe . . .” Yes, I have seen some google accounts getting hacked and others forgetting their Google Password. It is really sad to see that the “Account Recovery” of many accounts is not complete and it is may be pretty [...]

A few days back, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and had this strange problem which i never faced before! When i opened the terminal to install a few softwares like vlc and ubuntu-restricted-extras, like always I typed: sudo apt-g<TAB> But to my surprise, the auto complete option did not work at all! On pressing [...]

I have been thinking about this for a long time… I always ask and wonder for myself, “How do I get a fancy progress bar in the terminal (i.e., using C/C++ code)???” I got this thought when I was coding for my huffman lab program. I was thinking “If we input a large file > [...]

Many of us who love to work on Linux enjoy the privilege of using a plethora of commands and tools. Here is an effort to introduce you to a few very simple- to-use, yet enormously effective commands. The intended audience may belong to all classes of Linux users and the only requirement is to have [...]

We can play songs and videos from the terminal in a GNU/Linux or Unix machine. The player is “mplayer”. MPlayer has a GUI version too. It is GMPlayer Just a few screenshots to show you how we can play songs and videos on GNU/Linux or UNIX To install this: 1. SOLARIS/OpenSoalris: http://blastwave.org 2. Ubuntu: In [...]

Everyone using unix in their job will once in a while have to run a long running process. Usually right before leaving the office to go to dinner. If you have to check on it later to make sure it finished right then you are stuck with redirecting the output to a file and look [...]

I have been wanting to write this post for a long time. But could not find much time for the same. Anyways Once you install Ubuntu and OpenSolaris together (on the metal installation i.e., dual boot) you will face some grub issues. There are two ways in which you can install the two operating systems: [...]

One of the several advantages of having many GNU/Linux distributions is that there is always one distribution that meets specific needs for a group of users with similar interests. Whether you are a student or a scientist or someone who believes in some religion; you could use one of these special purpose distribution and share [...]

Google is going great! Now we can mail in 5 different Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam). I have changed the title of my blog using this great Gmail feature. This tool has a language specific spell checker and corrector!!! I am waiting for this feature to come on google chat too. Here [...]

I got this kewl article on how to make  a jquery twitter plugin (plain html!!). You can view a blog demo on the right side of my blog…….. First, introducing you to jQuery plugin for Twitter v1.0 – View Demo A simple, unobtrusive and customisable client-side method for easily embedding a Twitter feed into a [...]

I guess we all know that Ubuntu 8.10 ships with OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 and, if you want to use the new and improved version, then this guide is for you! However, we will not do a fresh install of the OpenOffice suite, as we will instead only upgrade the current version in Ubuntu Intrepid. What do [...]

I depend on Reliance ZTE/CDMA for Internet access. I configured the dialing by using the wvdial PPP utility, and I issue the wvdial command ( See my earlier post on connecting to internet using Reliance ZTE modem ) to connect to the internet in Ubuntu 8.10. There were some issues and drawbacks with the wvdial [...]

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Wondering as to how you can just give the outer border for a table in HTML????? – Read On The <table> tag has three little-known attributes: summary: specifies a text summary of the table for browsers that can’t display it (or speech synthesis etc) frame: controls the outer borders of the table (used in conjunction [...]

Your modem is a peripheral device to Linux, like a CD-ROM drive, hard drive, or a mouse. Your modem will be connected to a serial port, which means that one of the serial devices in the /dev directory actually points to your modem. You may notice that there’s also a file, /dev/modem, which serves as [...]

It is pretty easy to configure the modem on OpenSolaris. I am using bulild 89, and the usbsacm driver is there in it , if you are using some lower build, you can get the package from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/wwan/ and install it. Plug the usb modem and you will find the device detected in /dev/usb/ and [...]

Challenges in Informatics: Patching, Hacking and Exploiting – Cipher4 CIPHER is a Capture The Flag-style exercise in IT security for teams of students from universities. The task is to maintain a server running multiple services, while simultaneously trying to get unauthorized access to the other team’s servers. Each successful penetration gains points, as well as [...]

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It is difficult to use apt-get in ubuntu when you are behind a proxy. To be able to install packages behind a proxy, you need to have a few details: username: The user name with with you get through the proxy password: The password with with you get through the proxy proxyserver: The proxy server [...]