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Changing the default Boot OS in GRUB on Ubuntu 9.10

http://digitalpbk.com/ubuntu-grub/changing-default-boot-os-grub-ubuntu-910 _DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entrys #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true" Change the GRUB_DEFAULT value to number your default operating system Usually 0 - Linux, 1 - Linux, 2 and 3 - Memtest, 4 - Custom OS (Windows?) Change GRUB_TIMEOUT to change the default timeout if you want to. Run update-grub root@digitalpbk# update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic Found ...

Google Wave Review & Dev Preview

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-wave-review-preview-dev.html of these conversation is called a Wave. And each item inside is a Wavelet, Those who have brushed upon their Signal processing subjects would ring a bell here. The waves are recorded in time and can be played back to see the conversation growing.It takes sometime to load and the javascript pretty much hangs around when we do something like resizing the windows. The pretty new scroll bar is cute.About bots, you can add bots to your conversation that augments information like if we type some keywords, the bots parse ...

Turn on Bluetooth/Wifi on Sony Vaio CW Series

http://digitalpbk.com/sony-vaio/cw-series-turn-on-enable-bluetooth-wifi-smart-network in the task bar. (Right bottom of the screen) . But sony vaio smart network icon is missing ! Normally after a resume from hibernate or windows explorer crash the Smart network utility is killed. And it would seem there is no other way to get the panel without restarting. In this case all you have to do is take Run (WinKey + R), type in services.msc Find VSNService and click Start or restart . See the image below for details .. :) Sony Vaio Software ...

Increasing the karma ratings on Orkut

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/increasing-karma-ratings-on-orkut.html , the 3 get requests must not be sent to the server together. Leave a time delay of about 100ms between each of the GET requests.You can accomplish this in javascript by the following this template: function fn(index){ var links=new Array("Link 1 for cool/trusty/sexy/fan", "etc fill in"); var i= new Image(); i.src = links[index]; if(index != Count) { window.setTimeout("fn("+(index+1)+")",100); } else window.location = "Somewhere"; //Redirect ...

UNIX Networking : Sockets UDP Transmitter and Reciever

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/10/unix-networking-sockets-udp-transmitter.html UNIX Networking : Sockets UDP Transmitter and Reciever IntroNetworking in UNIX or Linux is done with sockets. The following are 2 programs I made up. 1. Sends messages in UDP.2. Listens and Recieves messages from UDP.User Datagram Protocol or in short UDP is like a letter or telegram, its arrival is not anticipated and there is no connect and disconnect procedures to send and recieve UDP messages unlike TCP/IP. So the program is a little more easier and simpler to understand.The Transmitter ...

Perl Download Manager

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/06/perl-download-manager.html STDOUT; $| = 1; my ($inx,$url,$localfile,$blockstart,$blockend) = @_; my $length = $blockend - $blockstart + 1; my $stbit = 0; if(-f $localfile) { open HND, $localfile or die $!; binmode HND; seek HND,0,2; $stbit = tell HND; close HND; $tdl += $stbit; } else { open HND,">$localfile" or die $!; print HND ""; close HND; } my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $pcksize = 1024*64; my $enbit = $stbit+$pcksize-1; my $parts = int($length / $pcksize)+1 ...

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 ...

Virtual Hosts on Apache 2.2.6 [Windows]

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/12/virtual-hosts-apache-226-windows.html Virtual Hosts on Apache 2.2.6 [Windows] What ?Virtual Hosts allow you to simulate multiple sites on a single server.i.e, One Server many Websites.Virtual Hosts is enabled by uncommenting the line :# Virtual hosts#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf #Uncomment this lineon httpd.confThe virtual host conf file ./conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.confEg:## Virtual Hosts## If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations ...

How to Enable/Disable Battery care function on Sony Vaio to improve Battery life.

http://digitalpbk.com/hardware/sony-vaio-enable-battery-care-function-improve-battery-life , Take Vaio Control Center (from Control panel or by typing Vaio Control Center in the start menu). On left side click Power management and then click on the Battery sub item Click on enable Battery care function as shown below. Uncheck it to disable battery care function. Click on advanced and choose 80% If your computer is charged to 100%, unplug from the power source, and let the battery go below 80%. Now you should see lesser battery degradation. :) Download Battery Care Windows ...

Fun with UNICODE and Mirroring Character

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/fun-with-unicode-and-mirroring.html . One thing to note that is the mirroring character is not rendered on all browsers. It is supported on Firefox, Opera, IE7 (partially). If anyone has any info about other browsers please leave a comment. Effect of using a mirroring character on orkut with the profile name is shown below:Note that the word "scrapbook" is inversed. There is more of it left for you to explore and find out ...Mirroring character also works on some Instant Messengers like Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger ...