All of us have at some point of time have had an experience which would have touched our hearts and would stay in our memories for years to come. I personally was a viewer to one such event, a couple of weeks back. It was Sunday evening and I was walking about in Jayanagar exploring the various cross roads. I came across a small park and I decided to give my legs a short break and sat on the bench near the kids play area....
Ever since I started using DeVeDe I quite missed a feature of Nero DVD creation software - ‘Shutdown when complete’ as I usually keep for convertion from XVid/DivX to DVD during the night. The process usually takes 4 hours, hence it would waste of electricity to keep the computer on for another 3 hours. So I searched for various options to shutdown the computer after predetermined time, the most popular one being use of cron....
Couple of years back on a Sunday evening I was sitting in the BSK IInd stage park relaxing and observing the variety of people coming in and out. Suddenly a thin and untidy looking man came up to me and started begging for a single Idli saying he had not had food for a day or so and was feeling very hungry, but by looking at him I could make out he was a bit drunk....
Electricity, Who can live with out it? During day time it would be possible by going out, reading a book or cleaning the room etc. But at night time it is extremely boring since none of the above can be done. A couple of months back I hit upon a idea of pulling a wire from the APC UPS used for my desktop computer and using it to light a bulb....
In Gnome the show desktop is by default mapped to Ctrl + Alt + d, if you would like to change it to something else the easiest way out is using the System –> Preferences –> Keyboard shortcuts. Though this is the easiest way those of you who are like me, would like to use the Windows Key + d. This is not possible using the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ window as it shows ‘Windows Key’ as ‘Super L’ and does not allow to enter any additional key, so to acheive the ‘Windows Key + d’ for ‘Show Desktop’ you would have to run the following command in the terminal to get that done:...