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Quick way to free up Photo Memory space

Posted 09-29-2009 at 03:34 AM by Mr. ameya sathe (Tantra Yantra Swatantrya)

Tags free space, memory card, resize image

You are on a much needed holiday. Cooling yourself on some nice hillstation. Clicking digital photographs. Suddenly; you realize that your memord card is full. Still; few more days are left for your holiday to complete.
In such a scenario; there are foll. solutions.
1. Buy a new memord card( Yep! its hard to find a good one in such places.)
2. Delete the unwanted ones.
3. Stop clicking photographs from your camera. :P

4.Change Image size(3.1M,2.0M,1.2M,VGA)...

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Posted in Digital Photography, Technical settings

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Inode and its corresponding filename

Posted 07-21-2009 at 09:58 AM by Mr. ameya sathe (Tantra Yantra Swatantrya)

Tags dumpe2fs, filename, find, inode

We refer to a file by its name. Computer refer to the file by its inode numbers. For every filesystem; there is an inode table. This table consists of Inode numbers & its correspondingmetadata. On the contrary; the mapping of filenames to inode numbers is stored in the directory containing the file.
To display the inode number of a file; say hindu one must issue the command

Code:

ls -i hindu

To display the total number of inode numbers in the filesystem ; you must issue the command...

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Posted in GNU/Linux, Filesystem Intricacies

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Bing- A Microsoft Decision Engine - My 'Try It'

Posted 06-01-2009 at 09:41 AM by Mr. ameya sathe (Tantra Yantra Swatantrya)

Tags bing, microsoft, search engine

Today is 1st June 2009. I have fired up the ‘Internet Explorer 8’ – a Microsoft web browser offering. I type just ‘slackware.org’ in the address bar. The circular motion on the tab started. More it takes time to load the page; more I dread. I dread the live.com search engine web page. Even; if you type the complete web page link given by live.com, say for example slackware.org; its still going to return live.com web page L.
OOPS!! I strayed away. Instead of being represented with...

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Posted in Microsft, Internet Based

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Eiciel-GNOME File ACL editor

Posted 05-11-2009 at 08:19 AM by Mr. ameya sathe (Tantra Yantra Swatantrya)
Updated 05-11-2009 at 08:40 AM by Mr. ameya sathe

Tags acl, graphical, gui

ACL( Access Control List) is a great way of managing access rights to files and directories. You can add,manage and delete the entries in the ACL through commands and also with help of GUI utility. Yes; there is indeed a GUI utility.
It is named as eiciel. Pronounciation is simple. Just speak aloud these alphabets. A C L

Yes; thats the pronounciation.
This utility is usable on the GNOME desktop environment. The management of the ACL is integrated inside...

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Posted in GNU/Linux, GUI Applications

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