Monthly Archives: January 2010

Save Tiger – Save Mankind (there are just 1411 tigers)

Saving the tiger means saving mankind.. Not only is tiger a beautiful animal but it is also the indicator of the forest’s health. Saving the tiger means we save the forest since tiger cannot live in places where trees have … Continue reading

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Save Tiger – Save Mankind (there are just 1411 tigers)

Saving the tiger means saving mankind.. Not only is tiger a beautiful animal but it is also the indicator of the forest’s health. Saving the tiger means we save the forest since tiger cannot live in places where trees have … Continue reading

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Implementing a new system call in Kernel version 2.6.32

A system call is used by application or user programs to request service from the operating systems. Since the user programs does not have direct access to the kernel whereas the OS has the direct access. OS can access the … Continue reading

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Installing Windows 7 from USB

Are you a person recently purchased a netbook which is not having a DVD ROM, No problem, you can install any OS using a pendrive or USB’s. Here is the steps. Requirements 1. A 4GB pen drive (since the size … Continue reading

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How to add a new Linux Kernel Module (LKM)

To demonstrate, let us goto a simple “Hello World” as a module and inserted in to the kernelStep 1Open any editor like vi or gedit in a shell prompt and the type the following/* Name of the file is hello.c … Continue reading

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Recompiling Linux Kernel

How to add a new kernel to linux OS and compile it and use it, the following points discusses that.Step 1: Download a new kernel from kernel.org (recent version is 2.6.33)Step 2: you may get the file either as a … Continue reading

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How to remove the ?q= in drupal

In drupal, each url will form like this http://www.example.com/?q=node This is somehow very hard to remember and its very odd too… but there is an option available in drupal to clean ?q= Step 1: Administer –-> site configuration –> Clean … Continue reading

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Issues with yahoo small business (.htaccess and mod_rewrite)

There are some issues with yahoo small business webhosting Transferring my Blogger to wordpress I have my blog hosted at blogger.com (http://tspembedded.blogspot.com) and I was redirecting it to my own domain http://www.pradeepkumar.org Since wordpress has lot number of advantages, I … Continue reading

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Alagar Kovil, Madurai

One of the nice spot near madurai to spend one day by visiting alagar kovil just 20kms away from Madurai. There are more number of buses plying in the city to go to alagar kovil. May be the bus series … Continue reading

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