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Installing Django on Dreamhost

Srijith R — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:27:36 +0000

Installing Django in Dreamhost and getting it to run wasn't straight forward at-least to me. There was lot of issues such as python bin directory not accessible as its shared and so. So the initial step in this to setup python yourself so that you can ...

Automatic Command Archive

Srijith R — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:45:19 +0000

The default command storing size of ubuntu is 500 commands. It stores the commands in home folder in the file ".bash_history" . The problem is 500 commands is too short of a size. One method is to increase the command size to a large value by changing th ...

BSNL Dataone Auto Downloader

Srijith R — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:41:43 +0000

Bsnl(India) provides an account that has 2am to 8am unlimited download. It was not easy to wake up at 2am and switch on the computer and sleep again. So I tried to find a method to switch on the computer automatically at 2am and download and shutdown at 8a ...

Script for Auto Copying of Cds/Dvds

Srijith R — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:12:30 +0000

Here is a script that i created for automatically copying all the files in cd to a folder and ejecting and waiting for the next cd. So here is how it works. You need to change the folder names and paths accordingly. And the shell script as [shell] ...

Copy in Linux with Ui

Srijith R — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:59:15 +0000

The program here is an UI for cp command. I have used cp in the background but over that I am just monitoring the files copied and speed of copying. It's not a perfected program. It's quick one but works fine. Execution: Create a file named copy and ins ...

Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux

Srijith R — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:17:21 +0000

I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is "gconftool-2". So code is like: [bash] #!/bin/bash folder="/h ...

Birthday Reminder For Gnome Panel

Srijith R — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:31:06 +0000

This program checks the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthday_reminder.txt to find the upcoming birthdays in 20 days and writes into the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays. There is a file called /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays1, the difference between it an ...

Find Invisible Users In Gmail

Srijith R — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:03:38 +0000

Finding who is invisible is something that I always wanted to do.It's always fun to ping a person who feels none can see him/her online. While studying XMPP protocol I found out that even when the person is offline the chat client knows that person is onli ...

“Send To” in Linux for Nautilus

Srijith R — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:31:54 +0000

It's been a common practice among the windows users to right click and search for "Send To" option when a file needs to copied to the USB or any other Drive. Why spare me, even i used to do this while using windows, when to my astonishment i found that th ...

Customizing Mysql Prompt For multiple Servers

Srijith R — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:11:33 +0000

If you are using mysql regularly on multiple servers its really useful to have the promt in mysql to show something more than mysql>. It would be useful if it showed the username,hostname, current database and things like that. So how to do this. ...