Opening a bank account …

I had thought it an absurd requirement to have a reference of someone who opened their account in the same branch in which you wish to open a new bank account. This guy left me under that misapprehension. It was not until I walked into the branch office in my area the other afternoon to [...]

Pertaining to Cricket and everything around it.

A friend and I had a brief conversation online about the on-going debate over the third test match between Pakistan and England which came to a controversial stop. Here’s the coversation. Enjoy. ;-)
Ayaz: What are you doing? Watching porn?
Aqua Hill: no. just reading about inzimam and the match contreversy
Aqua Hill: what are you doing? watching [...]

Dialog: Using Dialog boxes to interact with users on a Linux console.

You can’t throw in a GUI for an application that will be run on an enviornment without X. Does that mean you’re left to live with bland command-line prompts for interaction? Think again.
Ever done a text-based install of a Linux distribution? If yes, then I bet you haven’t missed out on those colourful boxes, pitched [...]

Independence Day!

Back when we moved into this suburb nearly 17 years ago, I remember clearly how barren the place was. Over time, empty houses started getting occupied, and the whole suburb lit up with life. I made friends with a dozen kids in the neighbourhood. I used to play with them, from anything from cricket [...]

rsync: How to efficiently mirror websites, directories, and filesystems.

From the manpage of rsync(1):

rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speed up file transfers when the destination file is being updated.The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the differences between two sets [...]