Linux And Friends

Why does Fedora 10 Linux distribution lack an xorg.conf file ? And what is the workaround if the display is not detected properly ? Here is a possible answer and a solution to this problem. The possible answer is – Xorg server has matured itself so much that it can auto configure itself. So technically [...]

This guide – Cleaning your keyboard – explains the steps I took to clean my computer keyboard. You can use this guide to clean your keyboard too.  It is amazing how with some forethought one can clean a keyboard using the common ingredients available in any household.

Jon Bohmer is a a Norwegian-born entrepreneur based in Kenya, and also an  inventor  who has created a solar cooker made of cardboard. And the interesting thing is, this solar cooker cost only 5 Euros.  He has named his invention the Kyoto Box – after the international environmental treaty to reduce global warming. The ingeniously [...]

On April 1st, Google hosted leaders of the IT industry to discuss the best practices for improving data center efficiency. The following is a video of a tour of one of Google’s data centers. In the video Google explains the guidelines it followed to improve its data center efficiency. Watch the Google data center facility [...]

URL Shortening is a process of converting a lengthy URL to a relatively short one which can then be used to send to others or posted in various forums. The advantage of URL shortening is that your URLs don’t break when you email them to friends. URL shortening allows you to post lengthy links to [...]

Did you know, in India, a country of over 1 billion people, there are 18 major spoken languages and over 1600 regional dialects? Even though Hindi is the official language, many people in India do not speak it at all. Hindi is spoken by about half the population, mostly in North India. Most Indian native languages [...]

I recently designed a site where I had Javascript popups /CSS menu side by side with some Flash content. Unfortunately, when ever the Javascript or CSS popup was activated, the Flash content was overlapping  the former.  The solution to this problem lies in lowering the z-index value of the CSS or Javascript. A more useful  [...]

It is possible to display any HTML element as a table using the CSS display property. Now a days with modern web browsers providing support for advanced CSS properties, it has become feasible to use block elements to display data in a tabular format. This is done by clever use of the values in the [...]