Installing XP from DOS the easy way!
Have you ever tried installing windows Xp from Dos, but couldn’t figure out. :hypnotised: Then the guide below will surely help.
1, download the win98SE boot floppy from here if you don’t already have one
2, format a floppy with a normal format
3, run the program you just downloaded to create the floppy
4, start your computer with [...]
spoolsv.exe at 99% CPU usage
My friend called me few days back and he told that his PC is acting very slowly. To me, first it looked like a case of my newbie friend not regularly cleaning his PC with spy or virus removal tools.I checked his PC with Spybot S&D with latest spy definitions , and also [...]
Shell Script for a Periodic MySQL Backup
I’ve been playing around with the UNIX shell off late, and its helped me greatly in reducing backup times for backing up my MySQL databases from at least 10 minutes to around 10 seconds. Also, since it’s a little tricky to manage periodic backups, I made a little shell script that you can use to [...]
Code Colouring!!
iG:Syntax Hiliter v3.5 is now available with more bugfixes and goodies. Get it to give life to the code you post in your WordPress blog, by colouring it!! :bingo:
What is Open Source?
Yes, what is open source? A lot of people will answer differently to that question and quite large is the number of people who mistake Open Source to be a synonym of FREE(as in beer, meaning free of cost). These kind of people are really annonying, especially when they make statements like they prefer FireFox [...]
Importance of Ctrl+S
Yes, one might wonder what is the importance of the key combination Ctrl+S. But as a programmer who codes a lot, I can tell you from my experience that its very important!! Those of use who live in India, must be very well aware of the power problems. Ofcourse there are those devices we know [...]
Checking empty values properly!!
If you take some kind of input from a user in an application(whether its online or offline, it hardly matters) and then perform some action using that input, then you must check if the input is empty or not before proceeding with the action, its common programming sense, unless ofcourse you also allow NULL values.
Now [...]
Ruby Anyone?
Are you looking forward to learning Ruby and/or RubyOnRails? Well, if you don’t know where to start on, then why not read it up on my blog where I blogged about how I started in Ruby and RubyOnRails. :tup:
Search & Replace in MySQL tables!!
The Webmaster’s Weekly #12 is out & the Quick Tip tells you about a simple way of doing a search-replace in a MySQL table.
Well, it might be something new for Chrispian but I’ve been doing this for ages, infact I don’t know of any other search-replace technique for MySQL when you don’t need to replace [...]
AJAX? Another buzzword?
What is AJAX? Its a buzzword? Its a fad? Yes and No. Its cool if you know what it is, its a fad if you don’t know what it is. Possibly there’s not a single web-designer or developer on internet who’s never heard of AJAX, & thats just about it. A lot of them have [...]