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jw@l@nta's weblog: October 2011
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Thursday, October 13, 2011. RIP Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011). My life revolves around tools and technology, the foundation of which you laid. I've loved and enjoyed The C Programming Language. More than any computer text so far. May you rest in peace. Printf("RIP, Dennis Ritchie! Posted by Jwalanta Shrestha. Monday, October 10, 2011. Headed towards Chipling Danda. But first we went all the way downhill to Chipling ...
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jw@l@nta's weblog: May 2011
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Saturday, May 14, 2011. Fixing overused touchpad with sticky note. If you're like me who spends more time with laptop than anything/one else, you'll end up with touchpad like this:. Due to overuse, the outer coarse layer wears off and touchpad starts acting funny. Plus it's difficult to slide your finger over it. Stick a sticky-note over the touchpad. This surprisingly works! Posted by Jwalanta Shrestha. Fixing overu...
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jw@l@nta's weblog: LinuxMint Debian and adjustments
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Monday, December 26, 2011. LinuxMint Debian and adjustments. I recently moved to Linux Mint Debian. After using Ubuntu for since quite a while. (Reason: Like many. I'm not so much fond of Unity). However, Debian is not as polished as Ubuntu. Here are some of the fixes I made:. LM Debian comes with 486 kernel, which has support for single CPU only. The first thing to do is install 686-pae kernel. Do the same for /usr/...
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jw@l@nta's weblog: June 2011
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Tuesday, June 14, 2011. NTC PSTN Number to Name. Has a nice feature called Telephone search. This is particularly handy when you get a call from landline (PSTN) number and have no idea who's calling. Ofcourse you can go to the site and search, but the following bash script makes it faster. Nepal Telecom PSTN Number to Name search. If [ "$1" = " ] ; then. Echo "Usage: " $0 "phone number". Prefix 01, if not provided.
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jw@l@nta's weblog: March 2012
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Monday, March 19, 2012. Multiple SSID on OpenWRT with bandwidth limit. If you're a network junkie and not been living under the rocks, you must have heard of OpenWRT. It's a Linux distribution for embedded devices (routers) and gives you power to do things usually impossible or difficult with inbuilt router firmware. Wireless Freedom indeed. The requirements for the APs are,. Free Wifi for visitors. As simple as that!
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jw@l@nta's weblog: RIP Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Thursday, October 13, 2011. RIP Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011). My life revolves around tools and technology, the foundation of which you laid. I've loved and enjoyed The C Programming Language. More than any computer text so far. May you rest in peace. Printf("RIP, Dennis Ritchie! Posted by Jwalanta Shrestha. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. RIP Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011). Welcome to WordPre...
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jw@l@nta's weblog: May 2009
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Sunday, May 31, 2009. NTC's GPRS in Linux via Bluetooth using Nokia phone. The following guide explains how to connect to Nepal Telecom. Service from Linux via Bluetooth using Nokia phone. This guide is based on Linux GPRS Guide. The steps have been tested on Nokia 6600, 6630 and 5300 but should work on all Nokia phones. Should do just fine. If not inbuilt in your PC/laptop). 1 Download ntgprs.tar.gz. Check if the po...
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jw@l@nta's weblog: Gosaikunda Trek
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Monday, October 10, 2011. Travelogue after a long time. Not that I haven't been traveling, but have been too lazy to write. However recently I went to Langtang trail upto Gosaikunda, the memoir of which is worth mentioning. The scenery along the trail is just superb and the Gosaikunda and other lakes around are just magnificent! Then towards Kutumsang, the next stop. Not as tough climb as before but still it was ...
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jw@l@nta's weblog: Reprojection to EPSG:900913 using MapServer
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Mostly Linux hacks, FOSS matters and my occasional travelogues. Enter your search terms. Sunday, September 11, 2011. Reprojection to EPSG:900913 using MapServer. If you are embedding a map on some web page (read: OpenLayers. And need to add layers from some third party GIS server, you're most likely to come across the word "Mercator" and its myriads of standards. Web based mapping services use Spherical Mercator, however commercial GIS services (like, Esri. In order to properly overlay data on top of the...
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