‘technology’ Archive

How I recovered my Thunderbird mail from backup

So the best way to backup your mails from Thunderbird is to copy your complete profile directory. Follow these steps for restoring your mail. The fool that I am, instead of copying the full profile directory I ended up backing up just the Mail subdirectory in the profile directory. It took me a while to [...]

Comparison of Google Public DNS and Open DNS response

Google announced that it’s making 2 DNS servers available publicly. The servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . They’ve also given configuration instructions on their DNS page. I configured my /etc/resolv.conf to refer to Google’s DNS. Before this I ran some quick tests using dig to compare it with OpenDNS. <br /> $ dig @208.67.222.222 gingerjoos.com</p> [...]

User agent GTB or GTB5 is the Google Toolbar

Was checking out this blog’s visitor stats recently when I came across this User Agent “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 GTB5″.  I was wondering what GTB5 was. Some googling and testing later I found out that GTB is in fact the Google Toolbar. To compare, here’s the UA of a Firefox [...]

Gingerjoos.com visitor stats on a map

My friend Arun Prabhakar recently started playing around with some visitor stats reporting for his site. He has been gracious enough to extend the service to his friends and now the public as well(by invitation only) The service is still in beta, so occassional hiccups might occur. He’s been adding more and more tools to [...]

Copying files from one unix box to another with scp

scp (secure copy). scp was meant to be an alternative to unsecure tools like rcp. It has since replaced most such programs. Since scp uses the ssh protocol, the encryption it uses ensures security of your data.

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 [...]

Mobile updates on Orkut?

Orkut is introducing mobile updates?

Enabled Google Analytics

I enabled Google Analytics a while ago. Reports are yet to come in. Cause.. no one has visited this blog yet.. heh heh