TechLog

Heh! Please don’t mistake me for one of those LHC guys. No, I am not talking about planets as in heavenly bodies which reflect lights from the stars but have give out no light on their own. I am talking about planet as in a feed aggregator. Firstly, planet is a web based feed aggregator [...]

No how-to from my side this time around. But a nice link I followed to setup tor and privoxy on my machine. It’s really easy to follow and straightforward. http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/privoxy/setup-tor–privoxy-for-anonymous-searching.html Probably I will write a how-to on customising privoxy to block ads, unwanted url’s, redirect machines on the network to use tor and privoxy using [...]

Today on ##linux-india at irc.freenode.net people were discussing about DNS and the recent DNS security issue and it’s implications and solutions. So, I decided to try out the test for my ISP’s nameservers, the default nameservers that I use. The test can be found on Kaminsky’s Website. The test confirmed that my ISP’s nameservers aren’t [...]

I was sitting at night browsing some friend’s blogs and adding RSS feeds to Akregator, after my new found fondness for KDE 4(more on that in a later post). Then Gaurish Sharma asked how to get webcam and fingerprint scanner to work on linux. I didn’t really have much clue but asked him to dig [...]

What is qingy? Here’s the quote from qingy developers Quote: qingy is a replacement for getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, [...]

I had almost given up blogging but came across this nice incident so had to post it. This is a true incident that happened with my friend rahul, who’s been looking to try linux but he’s a dumbhead when it comes to technology. This dude, Utsav came on digit forum and announced that he was [...]