Archive for January, 2008

Why should I be a Vegetarian ?

Friday, January 18th, 2008 139 views

Look I don't want to advocate that non-veg is bad but yeah I do feel that vegetarianism is a lot way better than chewing flesh. So here are some facts and reasons that provides a base for my decision: Human dental structure and other herbivores dental structure matches whereas carnivores have conspicuous ...

How many files are open ?

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 196 views

Most probably to find the answer in Linux, you will type this command at terminal (shell): lsof | wc -l lsof will give a row of open files and the result is piped(|) to word count (wc) command that counts the rows/lines (-l) No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another ...

Desktop of the month

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 178 views

Here is my desktop for this month :)  Let's make some noise !!! No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The Fiction We Live

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 136 views

The lyrics says more than words: You might be just what I need No I would not change a thing Been dreaming of this so long But we only exist in this song The thing is, I'm not worth the sorrow And if you come and meet me tomorrow I will hold you down, fold you in Deep, ...

Close the batch file after executing a program

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 162 views

Lets say you want to start a program in windows using batch file but you don't want to let your user see the batch file running in background alongwith the program it executed.So here is the nifty solution to this problem: Problem: Run MSPaint using batch file and close the ...

A standalone Helloworld XUL example (XULRunner)

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 429 views

Updated: 2 Aug, 2008 at 11:46 PM IST I am pretty much impressed by firefox extensions but the extensions still requires firefox to be installed and run. So here is the way to create standalone XUL application using XULRunner runtime (its like JRE, java runtime that is used to run JAVA application ...

Copy Text to Clipboard- IE, Firefox and Opera

Friday, January 11th, 2008 413 views

Updated on: 02 August, 2008 at 11:56 PM IST Recently I was working on Opera widget and got this problem of how to copy text to clipboard. Though separate solution exists for IE and firefox but there is no exclusive solution for Opera :( . But a single workaround do exists :) Here ...

Changing Network Interface Card Priority in Win XP

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 201 views

I was just trying to play a game over net using Hamachi that creates a VPN between the players to provide access to each other. Same applies for when you are having a Wired net connection and a Wireless net connection but you want to use one of them according to ...

Blatant rip off - Smother Me

Monday, January 7th, 2008 1,580 views

Pathetic. Isn't it ? You watch a movie and then it's remake thats been blatantly copied from the original one without any credits to the original mind. Here are some movies that were ripped off directly on to Bollywood makes: Kaante is a rip off of Reservoir Dogs Zinda is a ...

A Newbie Tutorial to AJAX - The Web 2 Experience

Friday, January 4th, 2008 171 views

Updated on: 03 August, 2008 at 12:33 AM IST Here is a simple tutorial for AJAX aspirants who just want to know how Ajax works without digging into server side programming. Needed Tools: Text Editor (preferably Notepad++) IE 6+, Firefox 0.8+. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related ...