Author: Binny V A

A philosopher programmer who specializes in backend development and stoicism.

Installing Perl Modules

Install Perl modules on a linux system – must be connected to the net perl -MCPAN -e shell If CPAN…

Compile and Install LAMP Server from Source – PHP5, Apache2, MySQL5

MySQL ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/mysql –localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql –with-mysqld-user=mysql –with-unix-socket-path=/tmp/mysql.sock –without-comment –without-debug –without-bench make make install cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf chown root:sys /etc/my.cnf chmod 644…

Hardware Profile

OS: Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) Default run level: 5 Language: en_US.UTF-8 Platform: i686 BogoMIPS: 5401.97 CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD CPU…

Shutdown A Windows System from Command Line

ShutDown.EXE [/shutdown][/restart][/poweroff][/logoff][/lockws][/hibernate][/standby][/fshutdown][/frestart][/fpoweroff][/flogoff][/flockws][/fhibernate][/fstandby][/hide][/show] Switch      Description             Available for /shutdown   ShutDown Windows        Windows (all) /restart    Restart Windows         Windows (all) /poweroff   Power Off Windows      …

Decompiling CHM File to HTML

hh.exe -decompile <FolderName> <Chm_File_Name> Example hh.exe -decompile “E:\Backup\” E:\All Song4s.chm [tags]windows,chm,help,decompile,html,file[/tags]

Remove an existing Kernel

The final numbers(2.6.20.6) is the version of you kernel. You can get this using uname -r (for the current kernel)…

Compiling a 2.6 Linux kernel

Get the latest Kernel from kernel.org Get a default .config file cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config OR make defconfig Then configure…

Sharing an Internet Connection from A Linux System using IPTables

To setup internet connection sharing in Linux system using IPTables Enable IP forwarding Run as root sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 To…

Installing MS Core Fonts on Linux(Fedora)

Download the MS Core Fonts Smart Package File wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec Make sure that the rpm-build and cabextract packages are installed:…

Yum Options

Using yum command usage: yum [options] < upgrade, install, update, info, search > Use the -y option to bypass the…