Are you getting garbled values when using file_get_contents fetching an external URL (website scrapping using php) and wondering what went wrong ? The content is appearing to have wierd characters instead of normal HTML output because of GZIP output encoding by the website you are fetching ... read on

CHDK is not yet officially released for Canon SX 120 IS, but I found a development version which works for my Canon SX 120 IS. About CHDK For those who are wondering what a CHDK is, it is Canon Hack Development Kit. CHDK is an ... read on

The default settings on my Sony Vaio CW Series laptop had wrong Gamma settings, therefore the color reproduction on the screen was slightly on the redish side. The setting on the Display on Control Panel was not getting saved due to some reason (Windows 7 ... read on

Laptop and LCD Monitors are poor in reproducing the actual colors compared to conventional Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Monitors. If not properly caliberated, the colours displayed can vary drastically. If you are using a laptop or LCD monitor, see the coloured box below.

When using PERL and WWW::Mechanize, your script can stop if there is some error in GETing a URL (such as 404 Not Found, 403 Permission Denied). Instead of resuming, the script terminates. If you want the script to continue resuming, you have to pass ... read on

The Sony Vaio CW Series (VPCCW26FG) Got Experience index of 5.8 More Details

ApacheSolr is an indexing server from apache. It is written in Java and can be used to make search pages on your website. Most Websites use a MySQL database to store its data and standard MySQL search using SQL or FULLTEXT Searching by MySQL. But ... read on

So I was looking for a new laptop and I had a couple of options like Dell Studio 15, Apple Macbook white and Sony Vaio CW series. Since I had took a loan amount for around USD 1300 ( 55000 INR), The laptops around my budget ... read on

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 ... read on

Sony Vaio CW Series (VPCCW26FG) comes preloaded with Windows 7 by default. The new series has a new

• Intel i5 Processor
• 4GB RAM
• NVidia Graphics with CUDA technology and 512MB Dedicated Graphics memory.

Ever wondered if you could want more out of the windows command line ? Usually on windows command line in order to select a piece of text, you have to right click the command line title and select mark and then mark the piece of text ... read on

In order to automate rsync without any password or transports, we need to setup the rsync daemon on one of the server. Suppose we want to sync data from a slave server to a live server. Configuring the Slave Server In the slave server we ... read on

The code below is a perl script that fetches the PNR status from the indianrail.gov.in website and displays it on the command line. Warning: No one is authorised to make any type of commercial usage like putting web advertisements or SMS service and ... read on

Here's a list of sites for drupal developers to play around with. HTML Comments without moderation

• www.themallblog.com
• www.eatsleepandcode.com
• www.layt.net

• mature-ip.eu/node/115/edit
• drupal.kldp.net (Its all Korean I dont know what all ...

When you want to alter a form on Drupal, it is useful to detect if the form being submitted is to add a new node or edit an existing node. To detect if a form is being added or submitted, check the $form[]['nid']['#value ... read on