The Lost Dragon

Every time when I have some task which is quite laboriousness and requires a lot of manual intervention, I think of some sort of automation. I think that because what I have understood during all my digital experience, that I am not the first one to be hit by these kind of boulders all along. At the same time, I am also not the only one who thinks that way when they are challenged with things like these. And finally, a lot of those people are way more smarter than I am for solving these problems. And what's even more better is, they share their learning and experiences. I just love the open source family... :k Right, back to this post. Recently, my sister got married and as expected, a lot of pics were captured. I had specifically bought Nikon L810 for it, and god, what images does it capture. But, you can't upload those high -resolution images for sharing with your friends. That's about 10G of images and in countries like mine, that size is a pretty high volume. So...

Finally back to technical stuff. Dual boot is very common these days with people having Linux and windows both at the same time unleashing the power of both the OS at the same time. If something goes wrong with Linux, then its pretty straight forward. Re-installation does the work automatically. But when the windows goes wrong, then is something problematic. So, how to preserve the linux when windows is re-installed? To know how to do this, you need to first understand whats happening with your system during the whole process. When Linux is installed as a dual boot on windows, some boot loader is installed to support both the operating systems. So, the Master Boot Record(MBR) is re-written to point to the linux boot loader(LILO or GRUB) when the Linux is installed on top of windows. Windows is booted as chainloading process. Now, when you re-install the windows, the MBR is written by windows to directly boot the windows. So, despite that you have all the settings preserved for linux bo...

Here is a nice workout if you want to upgrade your firefox. This post is inspired by the fact that a lot linux distrubutions required online update for this upgrade. So here is workaround if you want to upgrade your firefox installation to a higher version or to the latest version. Step 1: Getting the installation package. The first and foremost thing is to get the installation package for your system. I have a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) which came with default Firefox 3.0 version. So, you need to go to the Firefox hompage to get the desired installation package. Try to get the tar.bz2 or tar.gz package. This is a general package for most of the linux distributions. Step 2: Extract the tarball and move it to a particular location of desired choice Next, untar the archive using following command. $tar -xzvf firefoxtarball.tar.gz firefoxtarball.tar.gz or firefoxtarball.tar.bz2 as per your archive name. Now, move the extracted folder to some special place where you have all your install...