Author Archives: Justin Joseph

Lib curl installation

lib curl installation In the “Choose items to install” screenUnder PHP> extensions >Curl>Will be instlalled on local drive Aslo Extras>PHP Manual >Will be instlalled on local drive

A web spider dream

(Spidering the web, literally !!) Its been one of my dreams for a long time, to write my own spider. It came first to me while watching the movie matrix, where in one of the initial scenes,in which while the lead character is sleeping, his computer automatically runs search(about another character called “Morpheus”) and gets… Read More »

The strange close tab problem in firefox

I had been experiencing this problem for the past few days, namely Whenever i close firefox, with multiple tabs open, it doesnt show the usual “tabs are open, do you want to close” confirm dialog box. This really intrigued me and today I found the soultion.Just open firefox, in the address bar type “about:config”(without quotes)… Read More »

Building my own download server

I try out a lot of software at my place, including many Linux distribution, latest cool open source software and so on. And most of the time I depend on the internet for the same. Currently my connection is at 128 kb/sec, so a typical Linux download would range anywhere between 4-6 hours. So in… Read More »

Font problems

Recently I faced a strange problem when viewing a website in our regional language. The website should have been displayed in the local Malayalam language, but see what happened(see the pic below) (Malayala Manorama site being rendered using unknown characters) I was taken aback, i was hoping to read some malayalam news( it was a… Read More »

nrg to iso -Burn images in Linux

hi guys, Recently I came across a neat solution to convert nrg files to iso in Linux which I though I would share it with you. I guess, most of you would have faced the situation when you want to burn an image to disk and its in the “.nrg” format. Note that, the famous… Read More »

Virus Attack!!

(The virus attack, reminds me of this ^) Hi guys, From what I perceive, my XP seems to down due to a pretty nasty virus. I guess, it might have got into my system from one of the USB thumb drives(flash drives )that i use. Anyway the funniest thing(if any) here is that, even though… Read More »

A cool parser in Python

In my last post, i told you guys, i had plans to move the compiler project from java to python. But here too, the chief problem(due to my lack of ignorance) was parsing. I was looking around, and I came across this awesome parser called BeautifulSoup .This is basically a html/xml parser, but i think,… Read More »

Another exciting project

(Now its all starting to fit together – The compiler project I had in my mind for years) Its a been a dream of mine, for a quite a long time, to write a compiler of my own. Rather than the sheer joy of creating, and getting involved with such a cool project, my foremost… Read More »