Archive for May, 2007

a new idea

for some time i have been wondering about the ‘page’ option in wordpress, in addition to adding posts. the default one is the about me page, but i recently removed it from my blog. instead i hit with a new idea, during a conversation with tuxmaniac. we often search for some software and sometimes hit [...]

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Promising Projects – Brainwave and Returnable

In the past two days, I happen to see two mails regarding two new projects. Though both did not attract the best of my interests that I jump out and dig my hands into it. Rather I felt I can write about them. Here I go with a brief introduction to both of them.
Brainwave
Brainwave is [...]

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Positional Parameters in Bash

Been long since I posted something on Bash and as usual, I again post something from Mrugesh’s (floyd_n_milan) key board. This time its an explanation of Positional parameters in Bash, which was actually a reply to a question in GLUG-BOM mailing list. I felt the explanation to be more clear than what I found in [...]

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My Guru got Married (Updated)

Last week I got a surprise mail from Suraj Kumar, the one person who should take a great part of the credit for getting me into GNU/Linux and FOSS and hence tagged my “Guru”, that he is getting married. First I thought it was a prank mail, as April had not still ended. But, reading [...]

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PyProgram #5 – SMTP Mail Sender

Had some requirement to send mails in my project, so we were digging into the smtplib module. Thought of trying out a small script which will send mails. The example code was fine, but modified the functions and added “Subject: ” header to it. Tested it and voila it sent mails A rather [...]

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