https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open_projects While going through some old posts in this blog, I came across the link for Google groups. And guess what ? I stumbled across the groups, which I had created more than 10 years back. Among them, I clicked on the open_projects group It was as if, the posts were screaming back at me… Read More »
For wireless printing using HP 8600 printer, you could use the very useful HP generic printer driver from apple : https://support.apple.com/kb/DL907?locale=en_US The list of all the printers supported are shown here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#HP I was able to wirelessly scan photo. I will try the printing features tomorrow.
Successfully connected to the server using mremoteng and I was experimenting with a few linux commands. I was happy that I remember many of the commands from the linux days. From the site http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-all-running-processes-in-linux, I am across htop, I decided to try out htop, but unfortunately it was not installed. So I gave the regular command #… Read More »
After purchasing VPS server package and getting access to a whole server, I was thinking what I must do with all that power. Suddenly I realized that it’s been sometime I had access to php, MySQL 🙂 . It’s been actually a while since I worked on any linux based system. This is evident from the fact… Read More »
After using tomoato USB for over a year in my ASUS RT-N16 router, I was missing using the stock firmware. So headed to ASUS site, downloaded the latest firmware and flashed my router again. I am pretty much impressed by the features provided by the new firmware and also got back the speeds I was… Read More »
Getting the right system – Hardware specs What I am looking for ? Support for atleast 2 6.0 Gbps SATA drives Atleast 4 3.0 GB/s SATA connectors Support for atleast 8 GB RAM at 1666 USB 3.0 support HDMI or DVI Connector 1 GBps or 10 GBps ethernet connection Support to add addtional 1… Read More »
It has been a very long while since I played with linux. I mean, ‘play’ as in, code, install and also ‘play’ ofcourse. Since its been a while, I wanted to know the best distro( linux distribution ) with the least amount of fuss that could get me back into the linux world. I wasted… Read More »
Connecting my Creative webcam to raspberry pi was much easier than I thought. Here are the 10 easy steps that I followed Connected my webcam to one of the free USB ports on the Pi Made sure webcam has been detected correctly by issuing the command, ls -l /dev/video* If you see /dev/video0 in the… Read More »
Gigabit Ethernet was something I had been dreaming for years and it has come true today at my home. I am happy beyond measure. Thank you God 🙂 What that means ? I could now copy a file which is over a GB between two systems in my home network, in under 10 seconds !… Read More »
I heard about modding router, way back in 2004. Back then, the only option I was aware of, was the famous open source router Linksys WRT54G. I downloaded ebooks and drooled about the day when I would finally get my hands on one of these and hack them to my heart’s content. Fast forward 2013.… Read More »
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