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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-04

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Twitter Updates for 2009-11-27

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FTP Backups made easy

I do not recall backing up data over FTP (File Transfer Protocol) in the near past. Thanks to the SSH (Secure SHell) suite of programs like SCP (Secure Copy) and SFTP (Secure FTP), and RSync. But recently I had to setup a scheduled and unattended backup of data lying on a shared hosted server using FTP – the only available option at my disposal.

Wget is a popular and obvious choice to try out for FTP backups. But it didn’t work for me and threw an error saying cannot find .listing file. While I was about to dwell more into wget, I spotted the forgotten hero – lftp. Read the rest of this entry »

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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-10

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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-23

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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-25

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-25

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-05

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Display Microsoft Word’s Special Characters through Apache

Recently, I carried out a Linux server upgrade for a client where I did a clean install of the latest operating system/distribution. Since it was a clean install I had to backup and note down the earlier configuration (of mail server, web server, database) and redo those changes. Mostly I preferred not to simply overwrite with the backed up configuration files. I rather documented and edited the configuration manually.

It all seemed to have gone smoothly and the new server has been up and running. But one not-so-fine day, the client started complaining that some HTML pages are not displaying properly. These were showing question marks (?) and some other weird characters. I figured out that these HTML pages were generated using Microsoft Word and had those special characters (closing quotes, double hyphens etc.). I discussed with the client that this could be a web browser problem because it is not able to use the correct character set. Read the rest of this entry »

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Slice out my latest post

The second beta of the upcoming versionĀ  of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE 8 ) web browser was released last month. One of the touted features of IE 8 is Web Slices.

Many of us cut out articles from the newspapers if we find them interesting. Think of Web Slices to be cuttings from Web sites. But with a difference. If these cuttings (web content) are updated on the respective web sites, you will be notified, as well as your cuttings will be updated. Technically, you “subscribe to a Web Slice”, instead of saying cutting it off which may offend the webmasters ;-)

The latest post on my Blog is Web Slice enabled (or say, it is a Web Slice). In fact, it is Web Slice enabled since some time. Perhaps, some of you (who are using IE 8 ) would have noticed it.

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You may feel as if you have been forced to hold your breath as... More for Leo http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=5
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Started using Google Analytics (alongside Open Web Analytics http://tinyurl.com/2s84qu) with plugin http://tinyurl.com/2sahgs on my Blog
21 hours ago, comment
In Visio 2010 beta, Design>Size>'Fit to Drawing' is not working. Have to crop using Picture Manager :-(
9:43 AM Mar 09, 2010, comment
New blog post: E-mail notification for new or updated Google Wave http://bit.ly/aXlfUc
9:43 AM Mar 09, 2010, comment
With the latest @cyanogen mods from http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ Multitouch in Android 's Gallery & Browser is much smooth and reactive.
9:43 AM Mar 09, 2010, comment