Debian Squeeze, Redmine, Backlogs and Gitolite
Installing Redmine on a Debian Squeeze machine turned out to be bit challenging, especially for a person like me not closely associated with Ruby based development. The below blog post just explains...
View ArticleUsing USB CDMA modem to setup a home/private WiFi network
The idea here is to give a ‘how-to’ on setting up a a home WiFi network using mobile, CDMA based USB modem, hoping that bandwidth that you obtain from this service is satisfactory :-)Hardware...
View ArticleA script to mirror directories locally via rsync
Nothing really fancy here! I just wrote a simple rsync script which can be used to do a mirror of a set of directories from one place to the other. I use this to do incremental mirror of local Debian...
View ArticleIn-field labeling with jQuery
In-field labels are one of the recent design adaptations for HTML forms. Instead of placing a label and corresponding element next to each other, placing the label inside the input element itself makes...
View ArticleCreating GRUB/Syslinux splash images
GRUB splash image creation: Open GIMP application.Create an image of size 640x480 pixels. You may open an existing image and resize it too.Reduce the number of colors to 14 by selecting menu item...
View ArticleCustom d-i banner for your Debian blend
The GUI version of the Debian Installer (d-i for short) comes with a pinkish banner with Offical debian logo and GNU/Linux text embossed. If you are going to use live-installer tool to create a Debian...
View ArticleUsing git over proxy
I was trying to clone Android repository at office when this problem of “Connection refused” started coming when running the ‘repo’ tool. On subsequent googling, I got this really useful link (thanks...
View ArticleHow to extract an initrd image
Well, I had this often repeated problem of searching for how to extract an initrd image only to find that it is basically as cpio+gzip archive but, over a period of time forgetting it so that I come...
View ArticleCreating Linux filesystem images
I’m sharing the following script which creates a filesystem image of desired size (in kBs) for use in building an installUSB/LiveUSB Pen-drive image or for similar uses. I have written this in my...
View ArticleMaking persistant liveUSB from liveCD image
“Universal Serial Bus” is today one of the most common interface available in the computer to communicate with it in various aspects. Having a mobile storage device that seamlessly (well, at least in...
View ArticleDebian Squeeze and Mac OSX Lion - Dual boot
With Mac OSX Snow Leopard, things were much simpler to install and run a Linux operating system just by using rEFIt boot manager utility, on my Mac Mini(4,1 Mid-2010 model). With the introduction of...
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