Archive for October, 2007

Configuring wvdial for Internet access in fedora, using a cell phone or a normal modem

This post is dedicated to those poor lost souls who made their way to this blog while they were searching google for “configure wvdial for internet in fedora 7″ and “configure airtel internet in linux”. Hence the big “search engine friendly” post title!
The Basics

First of all, the simple basics.. Most of Linux’s powerful tools exist [...]

Fedora 7.. a nice suprise

I just installed Fedora 7 in my computer. My HDD’s partitions didn’t allow this originally(because I had no free space and no partition which I could afford to delete) but partition magic came to the rescue.
Anyway, I decided to install Fedora rather than my favorite Ubuntu, because Fedora came with the DVD and more bundled [...]

Sanitizing database inputs!

xkcd is my favorite geek comic strip. Check this one out:
EDIT: Sorry.. The comic strip doesn’t fit in this space very well.. You have to go the website to view it. Link
Hahahaha! ROFL!(literally!) This guy is amazing!

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addthis_title = ‘Sanitizing+database+inputs%21′;
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Does Google love blogs a bit too much??

I was correct. The thing I was talking about in the last post (about Google loving blogs) struck me again. Apparently, Google crawled this site after I published that post. And according to Google analytics, some poor soul looking for “Wordpress theme” on Google search came to my site. Wordpress theme! That’s not even a [...]

Design complete!

I have spent the last 4 days looking for the perfect theme for my just-shifted-to-wordpress blog. It’s hard to search for blog themes on Google because it will even show up newly created blogs with no good collection of themes to speak of, since Google loves blogs. Finally, Andreas Viklund’s theme came to the rescue. [...]

Domain registeration takes 3 days…

I hate banks.. I don’t know what it is about them. But I don’t know anything about getting basic stuff done in a bank.
Even though you have a large number of domain name registrars who will register a domain name for you on the Internet, it is useless if you don’t have a credit card. [...]