Archive for July, 2007

Planetplanet Installer

Planetplanet is a rss feed aggregator hacked in python.It’s extremely popular and we use it both internally and also on our GLUG site .
And the saddest thing ,it doesn’t have an installer yet :( and its a pain setting it up again and again .I have scribbled down a simple installer which *works* provided you [...]


Tagged !

i am not used to this but now that i have been tagged ,i would just go ahead and finish this and may be pass it on :-)
1.(a) Pick out a scar you have..
Below my neck
(b) ..and explain how you got it,
yeah it happened when i was a rowdy ;) actually from a blade i [...]


Add sudoers in fedora7

The one thing that i loved ubuntu was sudo .It was like magic making ordinary users root :-) .
It doesnt come by default with the fedora and so i added this way .For those wanting to do the same just see below
bash$su
bash#sudoedit -e -u root /etc/sudoers
find the below line in the file
” root [...]


Multi user blogs

Blogs have been a center for interaction,discuission and also helpful in building a community around it . Wordpress has by far been the most successful ,popular and also easy to use blog engine .So much that even corporates have adopted blogs in their machinery ,famous examples being the Google ,Yahoo and almost any startup [...]


How rude can you be ?

Imagine this scene at a placement interview for a production guy .
I( interviewer ) : How do you explain you low cg ,especially 5.09 in a sem ?
S(student) : well,sir i wasnt quite well and hence …..
I:ok, whats the shirt you are wearing ?
S: sir,peter england :-)
I: oh good ,nice shirt. You can wear [...]