Archive for June, 2009

Michael Jackson is no more

Michael Jackson is no more.
Paramedics were called to the singer’s home around midday local time on Thursday after he stopped breathing.
He was pronounced dead two hours later at the UCLA medical centre. A spokesman for the centre said the star died of a suspected heart attack.

There’s hardly a human begin in the world who [...]

How to join split files

This is sort of a follow-up to my previous post which talked about how you can use the split command in Linux to create split files which can be joined with hjsplit on Windows. My theory is that hjsplit does the same thing split does – which is just take the file and split it into the required number of pieces. No special headers or padding or compression or stuff. If that’s true, it should be easy as a pie to join the files split with hjsplit

hjsplit and linux split

The other day I had to fit in a 4.4 GB file (A Debian testing dvd iso image, if you want to know) on a 4 GB thumb drive. This, of course, is not possible. So I had to split the file into chunks, transfer them twice, take them to my friend’s windows machine and [...]

Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator

My friend Arun created an Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator as a hobby project sometime in his college. It’s written with php and javascript. Check out http://labs.kitiyo.com/8085

Useful vim commands

Now that you’ve typed some random stuff in, escape to the command mode. Now try pressing ‘:w’ i.e. (shift+;)w. W is for “write”. This saves the file and leaves you still in the editor. If you want to get out of the editor, you type in one more command ‘q’ so it becomes ‘:wq’. In case you want to get out of it without saving, use ‘:q!’. The other way to save and quit is to go to the command mode and hit shift+z+z.

The most difficult captcha there is

I was browsing through the site of a celebrity recently and came across the contact page. I was shocked to find the captcha there. Take a look yourself and be amazed : http://www.gulpanag.net/contact_gul_panag.php
Why would anyone display the captcha as text ready for a bot passing by to read? (It’s even got a nice class – [...]