Perl script which fetches output from search api

Reset the root password on a linux box

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/03/reset-root-password-linux-fedora-debian.html when running passwd, passwd: Authentication token lock busy.passwd Next just use the passwd command, and give a new root password, Now that's simple. Reboot or init 5That's really all I did. OR from the root shell, you can also edit the /etc/shadow file to remove the password.OR copy the /etc/shadow /etc/passwd file and use John-The-Ripper software to try cracking the password.Stuck? Let me know ...

Asynchronous Reading from Input

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/11/kbhit-asynchronous-read-linux-fdzero.html Asynchronous Reading from Input IntroNormal working of a C program taking an input is done via the scanf method. The problem in scanf is that when we invoke scanf it waits until we input something i.e, our program is waiting for the user input. This valuable time could be used for processing other things. Let us consider an example of a chat client made using C. When we want to send some message we type them and send. In all other cases it is required that the chat client listens for incoming ...

Undocumented 8085 Instructions

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/08/undocumented-8085-instructions.html Undocumented 8085 Instructions 8085 undocumented instructionsThese are the undocumented 8085 instructions, undocumented due to incompatibility with 8086, Use them at your discretion. (information here is not sure yet, still worth a post)DSUB Hex Code: 08HDescription: BC pair is subtracted from HL Pair affecting all flags.JNK [16bit location] - Jump to Location if 'K' flag is resetHex code : DDHJK [16bit location] - Jump to Location if 'K' flag is setHex Code: FDHRRHL - Rotate ...

Making a Firefox extension

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/02/making-firefox-extension.html Install.rdf xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> helloworld@digitalpbk.com Hello World 1.0 Hello World Sample Extension from digitalpbk.com digitalpbk A person who helped you Another one http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com chrome://sampleext/content/settings.xul chrome://sampleext/content/about.xul chrome://sampleext/skin/mainicon.png http://sampleextension.mozdev.org/update.rdf {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 1.5 2.0.0.* DraftFinally Packaging your skinIf you are familiar with Firefox, extensions are packaged in .xpi ...

Update Nvidia drivers on Sony Vaio

http://digitalpbk.com/sony-vaio/install-updated-nvidia-drivers-on-vaio Update Nvidia drivers on Sony Vaio Updating Nvidia graphics drivers on Sony Vaio is been a problem recently as the driver installation is not detecting your hardware. Sony Vaio OEM provided drivers are not up to date and when installing drivers directly from the Nvidia GeForce website, the screen says NVidia installation cannot continue This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware To Solve the problem you need to change an inf file after you downloaded your drivers ...

XPM File format

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/10/xpm-file-format.html XPM File format IntroXPM or XPixMap is a bitmap format in unix based systems. It is a relatively easy format to understand, XPM files have a format similar to a C source code of a string array./* XPM */static char * var name[] = {"","","" //etc....};The first line is XPM in standard C comments. Second is an array declaration with a valid token as variable name.The array index 0 [0] : contains the following %d %d %d %d [%d %d] [%d]which are : Width ...

Increasing the karma ratings on Orkut

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/increasing-karma-ratings-on-orkut.html Increasing the karma ratings on Orkut Trace BackFollowed from : Making more fans on OrkutContinued ... "http://www.orkut.com/setKarma?cat=0&val;=1&gid;=FR[friends id here]/[your id here]"Eg: "http://www.orkut.com/setKarma? cat=0&val;=1&gid;=FRUS00000000000/US00123456789"The above illustrates the page you have to make your friend to access to make he/she your fan.The same can be modified to increase (can decrease also) your cool, sexy and trusty karma ratings ...

Change Network adapter MAC address on Windows 7

http://digitalpbk.com/windows/change-network-adapter-mac-address-windows-7 be there is a collision with one of the other devices on the network. Try putting your name as MAC Address If your name just contains letters from A-F (very unlikely), you can put your name as MAC Address, or just try to make one as close as to your name. 0D-16-17-A4-9B-30 Does it look like DigitalPBK ? :D Screencast of the above steps to change windows 7 LAN mac address VID-33025293 Windows Software ...

Introduction to Windows - Programming for Windows

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-and-c-programming.html Introduction to Windows - Programming for Windows History - DOSDisk Operating System aka DOS was one of the earlier operating systems, it was a single task system, where the whole system and the OS was devoted to executing a single program and was basically a text based OS.With the advent of the Windows Operating System, multiple process or applications could be run and it became a graphical OS (interface). So in order to support new features the basic structure of C/C++ programs changed from ...

Special characters for orkut

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/12/special-characters-for-orkut.html Special characters for orkut Recently analyzing the traffic to my site I found that some wanted to know how to insert special characters in Orkut, yeah the fancy one's... So here is the info for them ... Method 1If you are on windows, take the character map from Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > System tools > Character Map. You will find all the special characters you need in there. Double clicking a character adds it to the text box below and when you have made your ...