Perl script which fetches output from search api

Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals

http://digitalpbk.com/2009/12/making-symbolic-links-windows-xp-using-junction-sysinternals Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals Symlinks is a utility that allows two paths to point to the same set of files and subfolders. This is a handy utility on linux which lets you point one path on linux to another path. To do achieve the same functionality on Windows XP, software called junction can be used. provided by SysInternals. Here is the help from the junction.exe D:\>junction /? Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer ...

Windows 7 showing Different Installed (4 GB) and Usable Memory (2.96 GB)

http://digitalpbk.com/hardware/different-installed-usable-memory-windows-7 Windows 7 showing Different Installed (4 GB) and Usable Memory (2.96 GB) Installed and Usable memory as shown by windows differs when you have installed a Graphics card which shared memory. If you have a graphics card of 1gb memory with shared option, the 1 GB of memory is not usable by other processes. So the usable memory is lower than that is installed. The above screen shot is from Windows 7 Home on a Dell Studio 15 laptop, with 4 GB installed RAM and an NVIDIA Graphics card ...

ANSI Escape Sequences

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/ansi-escape-sequences.html ANSI Escape Sequences IntroANSI Escape sequences are used to perform special operations on the terminal, such as changing the output color, making it bold, printing at a specified coordinate etc.The sequencesWherever you see '#', that should be replaced by the appropriate number. ESC code sequence Function ------------------- ---------------------------Cursor Controls: ESC[#;#H or ESC[#;#f Moves cusor to line #, column # ESC ...

Auto mounting File Systems in Linux

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/03/auto-mounting-file-systems-in-linux.html for FAT/FAT32 File System.Other filesystems that could be given can be found on/etc/filesystemsThe Device can be got from System > Administration > Logical Volume Management which shows local hard drives and its name as /dev/sdaX or /dev/hdaX etc.The Directory specifies which folder must the file system be mounted into. For example if you want to mount to mnt/hddC/ the device /dev/sda8 (FAT32) , the full command is @localhost ~]$ suPassword: root@localhost ]# mkdir /mnt ...

Apache 2.2.6 Getting 403 Forbidden on all pages

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/12/apache-403-forbidden-virutal-host.html ... :) # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. # Order allow,deny Allow from allIf you have virtual hosts, you will have to allow permission to access those directories too which contain the sites. For eg. if you have another site on C:/anotherwww/, you should includeDirectory Path, eg C:/anotherwww/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. # It can be "All", "None", or any combination ...

JSON- Javascript Object Notation

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/06/json-javascript-object-notation.html JSON- Javascript Object Notation IntroJSON stands for Javascript Object Notation. JSON is a way of writing or expressing JavaScript Objects so that it can be easily read by both the computer and humans. Unlike XML or eXtensible Mark up Language the JSON is much more compact and easier to Parse. XML takes the form InformationJSON takes the formvar obj = {an_array : [element1, element2 , element3 ....],a_property : "property",a_multi_array : [ [,,,],[,,,],...]};In order to parse an XML ...

Optimize Javascript files with Google Closure compiler

http://digitalpbk.com/javascript/optmizie-javascript-files-google-closure-compiler .0 applications uses a lot of javascript usually jQuery library or the YUI (Yahoo User Interface) Library to make RIA (Rich Internet Applications), this can be a very handy tool to improve Performance. The example code shows converting the following script from function hello(name) { alert('Hello, ' + name); } hello('New user'); to function hello(a){alert("Hello, "+a)}hello("New user"); It removes whitespaces, and shortens the variable names. A Few numbers ...

PERL Code to change Google talk status

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/02/perl-change-google-talk-status.html PERL Code to change Google talk status Code : stat.plThe following code changes the status of gmail/gtalk user status.Requires NET::XMPP module, and with SSL modules installed.#!/usr/bin/perl #usage : perl stat.pl use strict;use Net::XMPP;## Pls fill in these here :)my $username = "";my $password = "";my $hostname = 'talk.google.com';my $port = 5222;my $componentname = 'gmail.com';my $connectiontype = 'tcpip';my $tls = 1;my $Con = new ...

Fun with UNICODE and Mirroring Character

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/fun-with-unicode-and-mirroring.html is not enough to mention all characters in all languages. Here comes UNICODE, in which each character is represented by 16 bits. Therefore in this method of encoding, 65536 characters can be represented.For more information about UNICODE and its applictions visit Unicode.orgWhats interesting?Unicode is capable of representing many languages, including those written from left to right and those written from right to left. There are special characters in UNICODE to achieve the RTL. One such character ...

CAPTCHA - What ?

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/07/captcha-what.html CAPTCHA - What ? What is CAPTCHA ?? Seems like a weird word, but seems to be familiar ...CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.Simply, its a test to check if you are a human or not. A simple form of CAPTCHA is an image that contains a language or a sign which can be easily understood by a human being. On the other hand a bot or a program or simply a machine cannot understand. Given the image to a program it cannot see into and tell ...