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Automatic Command Archive
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
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 …
Simplest way to remove trailing zeros of decimal numbers
This is a simple method I found to remove or strip trailing zeros of a decimal number. The function accepts the decimal number and return the trimmed value back. It removes all the redundant zeros in the number after the decimal point and if no number othe …
Web page Performance for a Blog – Part 1
I have always under the notion that page performance for big websites or websites that have a sole server and various resources like CDN and load balancers. So I wanted to know if this is true. I set out to try web page performance my blog. I just wanted t …
Print Array in PHP
There are various methods and commands used in PHP to print an array of elements. They are different in the way they print the array elements. I will cover three main ones I usually use. Lets assume an array as follows to explain the various types of pri …
Check if a table exists in MySQL from PHP
Sometimes its necessary to execute a query or execute some code if a table exists or not. So a bit of searching got me to the conclusion that mysql doesn’t have a direct query or method for it from php. So there are two methods to do it. Use the mys …
Fix link issue in Twitter client of Fusion theme
When I tried out the Twitter client in fusion theme I noticed that the urls are wrong in that client. The URL in my client were like http://blog.sriunplugged.com/”http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Home” . So after a bit of digging into I found that the …
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