src2pkg - linux package maker

Almost every Linux distribution comes with a good package manager from where the user can install-update-remove desired applications. But inevitably there comes a time when the need to compile an application from the source arises. The usual route to compile an application goes something like this,

source -> uncompress -> ./configure -> make -> make install

The main disadvantage of this method is it becomes very hard to keep track of the installed packages and files. Uninstalling a package cleanly can sometimes becomes nightmarish. That's where src2pkg comes into play.

Essential Windows Softwares

I earn my bread and butter by working as a computer technician and I have to on daily basis install Windows on my client's computers. Windows in it's default installation lacks many essential softwares for day-to-day computing tasks. I used to have a DVD containing all the essential softwares and recently that DVD got broken by an accident. Burning a new DVD became necessary and I went on the hunt for the set of softwares which are essential after a fresh Windows install. My criteria was simple. Choose the softwares which are open source and only include closed source softwares when there is no viable open source alternative available.

live score of 2014 FIFA football world cup in linux terminal

The FIFA football World Cup 2014 is underway in Brazil. Most people will be glued to their television sets during the matches all over the world. But there are many people who won't be able to watch it on telly for various reasons. If you are one of them and you are tied to your computer but want to keep an eye on live score of the FIFA footbal World Cup 2014 matches then worry not.

how to automount usb drives and memory cards in linux

A recent discussion on Debian forum has inspired me to write this post. If you use a minimal window manager like openbox, fluxbox, i3 etc. you will find that USB drives and Memory cards won't automount. It can be very hard for new Linux users to figure out how to mount the USB drive or Memory card they have just inserted. Thankfully this can be achieved easily via udev rules.

Three Free And Secure Windows XP Alternatives

Microsoft finally pulled the plug on Windows XP on 8 April, 2014. Computers running Windows XP won't get any further security updates-patches. This means that the computers running Windows XP have become more vulnerable to the security risks even if they are running latest anti virus-malware products because operating system level exploits are beyond the scope of these products.

Enable Numlock on bootup in GDM, LightDM and LXDM

GDM :-

First you'll have to install package 'numlockx'. It is available in the repositories of almost every Linux distribution. After you have installed 'numlockx' package open the following file as root in your favorite text editor,

/etc/gdm/Init/Default

A nice looking and useful bash PS1 prompt

It's been a while since I blogged anything. Getting lazier. Anyways the folks who use Linux and/or Mac are familiar with Bash. It's the default shell in most of the Linux distributions and Mac. And the folks who use these operating systems also know the power of working in the terminal. And the prompt you see whenever you open the terminal is controlled by PS1. Most of the time the default prompt is, let's face it, boring. Today I'm gonna give you a nice, colorful, two lined prompt that also displays the exit status of the last command. Exit status means whether the command failed or succeeded.

we don't like cricket, WE LOVE IT.

Just behold the following image,

Isn't that a beautiful cricket venue?

hakbak - Ultimate file backup tool for Linux

Scenario:

Yesterday i decided to play with my conky configuration file. I edited it and then saved it. Today when i ran conky somehow i didn't like it. It wasn't looking as good as my old configuration. Now here comes the problem! I just can't seem to get the current config to look like the old one! I have forgotten what changes i made yesterday! Damn!
Fortunately it was just a conky configuration file. what if it was some system file? I would have broken my system. What if it was some important work file? That would have been disaster!
This kind of disaster can happen to anybody and everybody who sometime or other edits their files. It happens to the best of us. A simple thing can prevent such a disaster from happening. You may ask what is that?
That simple thing is create a backup copy of file every time before opening it. But implementation of this practice is not easy! Stress, hurry or plain old silly moment and "Hell! I forgot to backup the damn thing!" Disaster!!!

NetChecker is now available on SOFTPEDIA

Exciting news as NetChecker is now available on softpedia. They have tested NetChecker and issued 100% clean award.

Feel free to visit NetChecker on softpedia,
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-Testing/NetChecker.shtml

Cheers!!!

NetChecker is now available on FreewareFiles.com

NetChecker is now also available on FreewareFiles.com! They have also hosted NetChecker setup file on their mirror! I want to thank FreewareFiles.com for hosting NetChecker.

NetChecker on FreewareFiles,

http://www.freewarefiles.com/NetChecker_program_86593.html

NetChecker is on sourceforge

I want to thank sourceforge for hosting NetChecker! It is really significant as being on sourceforge means a rock steady and secure mirror system for hosting NetChecker setup file.
You can visit NetChecker's sourceforge page here,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netchecker/

Cheers!!!

NetChecker the internet connectivity checker is released

Yesterday i released my first software NetChecker . It's a text based software to check and repair most of the common connectivity issues on wired and wireless broadband internet connections. Netchecker is Windows only software. It works on windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8. NetChecker is released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. So you are free to use, share, copy, modifyit to your heart's content.

For more visit check out the Netchecker homepage here,
http://www.netcheckersoftware.blogspot.in/

You can download NetChecker from the download page,
http://www.netcheckersoftware.blogspot.in/p/download.html

Cheers!!!

A little bit of love on Valentine's day

It's 14 February and i can feel the love is in the air, It's everywhere! So why not make my blog a bit romantic today? A few images and songs to make the atmosphere of my blog to match the mood of the Valentine's day.

Have i told you lately that i love you:

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Clementine - The best music player-organizer for Linux & Windows

A while back i wrote about my favorite music player cum manager software Jaangle. Only problem with Jaangle is it's a Windows only application. It won't run on Linux and Mac. So whenever i'm using Linux i use Clementine. Clementine is the best crossplatform music player-organizer.



Clementine is inspired by Amarok 1.4. Clementine provides a nice interface for searching & playing music from your local collection as well as web sources.

Five Minute Management Course

Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the

How to hide secret messages in images & photos

Do you want to send a love letter to your lover or want to send some sensitive information and want this love letter or information to remain secret and hidden so other persons like father of your girlfriend or business-office rival can't see your message? Today i will show you how to do this without any software. For example there is a message hidden in the image below

I've chosen the image of Krishna-Radha deliberately as the message hidden in the image is a message of love! Can you see the message in the image?!?

SMPlayer - the best media player for Windows & Linux

VLC fans out there might go crazy at the post title but in my limited experience I've found SMPlayer to be a bit lighter on resources while playing high quality videos and frame-rate tends to be better compared to VLC. Other than that they both are wonderful cross-platform open source media players and no other commercial media player out there can hold a candle to them.

SMPlayer uses Mplayer as playback engine so it can play all video & audio formats that MPlayer supports and it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that MPlayer is capable of playing all known video & audio files.

How to speed up slow Windows PC

I'm a computer technician and people come to me with all sorts of computer related problems and do you know what is the most common complain? My Windows PC runs so damn slow!

There are five main reasons for a slow windows PC and today I'm going to tell you what those five reasons are and how to resolve them and make your windows PC run faster

Who is Haker Defo

Well after reading my blog posts you might have wondered who the hack is this Haker Defo?!?