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1. Perl Script to Fetch PNR Status reservation on train from Indian Railways

   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 Reproducing/Transmitting/Storing in …

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2. Automate Rsync without Password using Rsync Daemon

   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 …

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3. Linux style command line for Windows, Drag to Select, Right click to paste

   

   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 …

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4. Sony Vaio Windows XP Drivers for CW Series (VPCCW26FG)

   

   

   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.

   For anyone who is interested in installing Windows XP, the drivers for …

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5. 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 …

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6. Compare Sony Vaio vs Macbook White

   

   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 …

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7. JQuery make dynamic draggable and droppable containers

   The jquery UI javascript has the Draggable and Droppable Interactions inorder to implement a drag drop UI. By default draggable and droppable containers are marked draggable and droppable by jQuery when the page loades, As shown in the code snippet below for the jQuery Drag …

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8. Apache Solr MySQL Sample Data Config

   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 …

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9. Sony Vaio CW VPCCW26FG Windows Experience Index

   

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

   More Details

   Component	Details	Subscore
   Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz	6.7
   Memory (RAM)	4.00 GB	5.9
   Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M	6.3
   Gaming graphics	2263 MB Total available graphics memory …

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10. Make WWW::Mechanize do not exit on GET Errors

    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

    autocheck …

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11. Correct Colors displayed on Laptop / LCD Screen on Windows 7

    

    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.

     
    
    

    The …

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12. Sony Vaio Gamma error and color is not saved (Nvidia Geforce GT 300)

    

    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). …

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13. CHDK for Canon SX120 IS Camera ( Canon Hack Development Kit )

    

    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 …

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14. PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output

    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 …

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15. Permission Denied on Hosts File (Windows 7)

    On Windows 7, I was trying to edit the host file using Komodo and was getting Permission Denied, and tried notepad too still got permission denied. I thought initially it was McAfee Anti Virus that was disabling the edit of host file as this …

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