Archive for November, 2008

A day in life of a geek



Access VirtualBox Guest Network From Outside

I have been looking for a way to enabling network inside virtualbox so that I can access it from anywhere thus being able to run various services inside virtual environment, trying out anything without any worries. Here’s a simple how-to borrowed from archlinux wiki Install bridge utils for creating bridge and uml_utilities for creating a [...]



Some nifty fun with Linux and PDF files

Let me narrate 3 nice experiences with pdf on Linux while at work 1) Merging multiple PDF files gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=filename.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf……..fileN.pdf 2) Convert ps to pdf ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf 3) Compressing PDF files. 4) Convert images to PDF convert image1.jpg image2.gif image3.tiff…….imageN.xyz filename.pdf




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