Author: Binny V A

A philosopher programmer who specializes in backend development and stoicism.

Writing tips

Omit unnecessary words. Make every sentence contribute to the point you want to make. Use paragraphs as your arguments. Go…

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:…