How to disable or enable Google Instant Search

Google’s latest innovation in search Instant search is out. It displays the results below as you type in the search box area. To enable or disable google instant search, there is a nice small little link on the right side … Continue reading

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Trying out Firefox 4 Beta 4.

For a good long time have been a Firefox beta tester. So far, was pretty much settled with Firefox 3.6.x, but now have started to test Firefox 4. So far, the first impression I had was .. “its lighter”. But … Continue reading

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Ubuntu clive http 404 error solution.

Update: For 11.04′s clive version 2.2.13, the youtube video URLs are throwing the following error. error: no match: `(?-xism:fmt_url_map=(.*?)&)’ and the solution for this is to pick the package from Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric which is of version 2.2.25-2 as of … Continue reading

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Remove pen drive folder.exe virus using linux.

Instructions to detect and delete EXE folder viruses. This virus has an extension of .exe corresponding to the folder name in the drive. For example if a folder has subfolder called as exam there will be an equivalent exam.exe existing … Continue reading

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Google Webmaster Tools : Verification procedure for a Blogger account.

To use the Google Webmaster Tools for your blog, you must first add your blog and allow it to be self verified. This way you tell google, that this ‘site’ is indeed yours. For a blogger account, the help is … Continue reading

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Kingston Pen drives Technical Support in India

Consumer and Service & Support for Kingston pen drives and other products in India. Phone: 044 42015215 Toll Free No. 1860 425 4515. Detailed listing of service centers here Bangalore Service Centre. re-STORE (A Unit of Aforeserve.com Ltd) No.2, 1st … Continue reading

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BSNL Broadband Dataone complaint url.

One thing common to bsnl broadband (Dataone) users in Bangalore or elsewhere is the frequent disconnection problem. Am not sure if this is a common problem, but I have spent countless times staring at the modem’s adsl link to appear … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Apache2 : Change default DocumentRoot /var/www

By default the document root folder for apache2 in Ubuntu is /var/www. This were you can store your site documents. In order to change the default site location to a different one, /opt/mysite use the following method. A detailed steps … Continue reading

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Shell : Remove blank spaces from filenames

Just like I last posted the below script can be used to remove blank spaces from file names. #!/bin/sh find . -name “* *”|while read file do target=`echo “$file”|tr -s ‘ ‘ ‘_’` mv “$file” “$target” done

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