Tips & Tricks
Live Chat On This Blog is Available
With addition of the new widgets in sidebar, Live Chat is now available at all my blogs. When ever I am online, you can see my status right here on the blog. you can click one the white balloon on right to reach me when I am signed in to Google. While the bigger chat box below the ‘Recent Tabs’ will let you chat live with me on MSN. you don’t need to have Gtalk or MSN. the web versions are already loaded.
I’m not so sure. if Live Chat will actually will work on blogs like mine or not. I just thought it is a clever idea to include these widgets so people can contact me when I am online. It probably is a better mode of communication with my existing readers. On the flip side is that all chats are lost, once they are done. I can definitely save them on my IM (highly unlikely, I know). Now This is a a new problem: IM conversations generally have a poor signal-to-noise ratio, making it virtually impossible for subsequent readers to find the information they’re looking for. Oh, and don’t get me started on the spam problem. The other potential pitfalls are perm linking and search. The benefit of comments is that they can be perm inked - they become mini-blogs of their own The other advantage of a permanent record is that it turns up in search results - I often find the information I’m looking for in blog comments. If there is no perm link structure for live chat and the chats aren’t stored on the originating blog, all these advantages are lost.
I may be pushing live chat to its edge but I really want to know the people who visit my blogs. It is very personal and I have every right to engage people visiting my street in any manner I deem fit. period. lol
I think I will give it a shot for a week or two and see the results. Two things can happen, Either I will be over whelmed by the visitors constantly nudging me with PMs or People will just simple ignore these widgets and just pass by silently. I am betting on the second one, while Paul is standing next to me and he thinks I have made a mistake of my life.. let’s see whose prediction comes true.
I wanted to add a section on how to implement live chat on your blog but I think It would be more interesting if you ask me through chat to help you with that 
I am waiting folks..
Have a nice day!
Learn To Manage Your Own Linux Server
Contrary to popular myth that managing a Linux Server is difficult, learning to manage your own installation of Linux is very easy. Not only that the operating system is free of cost. It comes with a free owners manual called world wide web.
Internet is best place to learn about Linux. It has tutorials and courseware for every one from Geekest of Geeks and a total newbie. This proves that gone are the days when Linux Server were only the domain of geeks. Party is ON and every one is welcome to learn.
List of Free Linux/Unix Shell Account Providers
A Unix shell or Linux console is a personal account which allows users access to a command prompt on another machine. We mentioned those earlier in our Post about Linux Commands , With these accounts you can login to a remote server and execute commands on it. These accounts are normally accessed via SSH. Historically we used telnet for that but now telnet is fast becoming obsolete due to security concerns. These free shell accounts can be used to practice your Linux / Unix skills as well as making most out of IRC, Email, web hosting etc. 
The free Unix shell accounts listed below are all provided by not for profit organizations. The existence of these non-profit organizations is vital for Internet community.So it is not good to bring them down. (you know what I am talking about).
http://freeshell.org , http://sdf-eu.or
Server & services:
- two T3s lines
- SIGs, Music Compilations and Membership activities
- 10+ DEC Alphas (DS20L/DS10L) running NetBSD
- Supporter of the NetBSD project and The Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
- Members vote in new features
- Member contributed programs and tutorials
- 80MB (free), 600MB and 800MB disk quotas
- Membership perks (such as free admission to the Computer History Museum)
- User configurable email greylisting feature
- Partnership with Colleges world wide for free, in most cases, remote learning
- DSL as well 16,000+ Dialup access (PPP or SHELL) numbers in the USA and Canada
- IRC access to free users on Saturdays and Sundays
- motd.org project - user authored and maintained blogs, photo galleries, forums and more.
- VPN with IP4 assignment in our Class C.
http://www.grex.org
Server: OpenBSD
Services: email, lynx, personal webspace, compile C programs… (quota: 1Mb)
http://www.nyx.net
Services: email, ftp, telnet, lynx, personal webspace of 100K
http://m-net.arbornet.org
Server: FreeBSD
Services: email, pop3, lynx, personal webspace, compile C programs (quota: 500kb)
http://www.xox.pl
Services:email,pop3,ssh,irc,ftp,web space (quota: 1Mb)
50 Common Linux Console Commands You Should Learn By Heart
We have listed below 50 commonly used Linux / Unix commands that we think every geek should learn by heart. These commands are vital for your complete access to Shells and Consoles. Print them out. Hang them near your monitor. Practice them. Only constant practice will let you retain the usage and utility of all these console commands. Enjoy the list.
Windows XP Secrets: Discover 3 Hidden Desktops
Anyone, who likes to multitask, will tell you that Virtual Desktops are a great way to increase productivity. Ability to make most out of monitor real state and ability to switch between desktops with touch of a button is priceless. This is one of the reasons why geek’s love Linux. In almost all distributions of Linux, these days, you get at least 4 desktops. Each of them have their own background and taskbar. Now you can unlock this feature in Windows..
Internet Speed: How to Increase with HOSTS file
Increasing Internet speed is an uphill battle. Especially when you are on a dial-up connection, It is vital that pages load fast enough to let you do the task efficiently and effectively. Web sites today are loaded with parasites like Unwanted Adverts, banners, Pop-ups and page counters. When you have ample bandwidth and computing power, the extra load these parasites put on your connection is negligible. The situation becomes very annoying when you are on a dialup connection. These unwanted parasites consume a larger percentage of your bandwidth and increase the page load time. These also put a stress on your processor and the computer suddenly becomes very sluggish.
In order to avoid this we apply various tweaks and tools to the task. We disable popups and Java Scripts. We use firewalls, anti-virus, anti-malware and God knows what else. Less than 50% people know that you can avoid 70% of all that is useless and dangerous on the Internet by just a few entries in your HOSTS file (if you are on Windows based PC).
How to Turn On Your PC in Under 10 Seconds
Alright, so you are also interested in having a 10 Second PC. Does sound like having a 10 second car, isn’t it? It also reflects that we all don’t like waiting for your PCs to boot and every millisecond delay feels like a minute and every minute feels like an hour.
I have found this tip on Internet and have yet tried it as I am not willing to experiment with my 20 month old windows XP installation. may be you can try it and post me back the results. Read the rest of this entry
How to Keep Your Digg Friends Happy!
Digg is one of most democratic social bookmarking sites. Making stories popular on digg is quite difficult these days unless you spend all your time on digg and have a good deal of active friends. In my case I have more than 200 friends on digg. It is almost impossible to digg all their shouts. I get around 50 to100 shouts each day. If I don’t digg them daily they pileup and people get angry at me and don’t digg my shouts.
Recently I found a great tool that made my digg life very easy. I just need to spend less than an hour on digg. I digg all my incoming shouts and delete them with ease. My friends are happy and they have started to digg more shouts of mine. Although I have not reached first page with any of my stories. Still all my submissions get about 10 - 20 diggs on average after I shout them. Which is improving each day as my reputation for digging all incoming shouts is building up as I digg my way into people’s shouts. Read the rest of this entry
Top 7 Windows Vista Tweaks
Microsoft’s Windows Vista is resource hungry to such an extent that It can be termed as resource hog. With vista its always good time to tweak. I have gathered these tips from all over the net and after reading quite a few lists and trying them out on my test machine. I have tested about 25 different tips and tricks and came up with a list of following 7 tweaks that I found very useful. they really improved performance of my Vista Installation to the extent that I don’t miss XP anymore. Par see the peroformance increase is around 90% for general use.
Top 7 Vista Tips & Tweaks
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Lose What You Don’t Need
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Keep your drivers fresh
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Hose Out the Background
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Use ReadyBoost
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Speed Up the Interface
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Miscellaneous Hacks
- Defrag Once in a While
How to Double Firefox Browsing Speed on Dialup Connection
Thanks for reading “How to Double the Firefox browsing speed on dialup connections”. As we all know, firefox is taking over the browser’s market with it’s improved features and enhanced security. It is so far the fastest browser out of the box among its major competitors like I.E. and Opera. Still there is lot’s of room for improvement in firefox. Fortunately due to open nature of the browser it is not difficult to tweak your browser to get the optimal browsing speed.
I have compiled here a list of tips and tricks and tweaks that I have done to my browser to get most of my slow slow connection. It should work for you as well. I have done some site loading time tests before and after these tweaks.I have seen a 80% increase in performance. I am eager to hear from you about your experience with this.
- Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter.
- In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set to true, if not double-click to set to true. (HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.)
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