Author: Binny V A

A philosopher programmer who specializes in backend development and stoicism.

Installing DC++ in Linux

LinuxDCPP is a linux client for the DirectConnect protocol. This is how you install it… #Get the code sudo cvs…

Command for Converting Video Format Using Mencoder

Convent video using mencoder in linux… mencoder input.mpg -o output.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide

Scope and Binding in JavaScript

Function x executions in the scope of object y. var Car = function() { this.name = ‘car’; } var Truck…

Backup All Databases in MySQL

Backup all files in /var/lib/mysql to another folder To restore, stop mysqld if it is running service stop mysqld Move…

Read Tarballed Text File

How to read a big text file that is tarballed – without extracting the whole thing… bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head…

Directory Listing Only Search

The search that limits the results to just directory listings… intitle:”index.of” inanchor:”Last Modified” inanchor:”Description” inanchor:”Parent Directory” -filetype:php -filetype:asp -filetype:htm -filetype:html…

Create a Folder’s ISO image

How to make an ISO image from contents of a directory? mkisofs -V label-name -r directory-name > iso-image.iso [tags]iso,image,folder,linux,mkisofs[/tags]

Adding a Windows Entry to Grub

The code to add a Windows loading section in Grub title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 [tags]grub,windows,linux,boot,loader[/tags]

Create CD Image

These commands can be used to create an image of a CD/DVD/HDD. You can also use some GUI tool like…

Download Multiple Files with Wget

Wget can be used to download multiple files with just one command wget -c “http://example.com/file[1-9].htm” [tags]wget,download,multiple,series,linux,command,cli[/tags]