Anant Shrivastava : Techno Enthusiast

Well after a long time i am back at blogging this time with some good news for all my fellow bloggers.

check this link

Fake ID

They claim to provide a free card on a PVC printed sheet as a thanks for linking to their site.
This same service they offer for around 5pounds

Lets see i am linking to them here,

Hoping to get the card soon.

For those willing to have a taste here are screenshots of my possible card.

front site

Back side

If you have account at more then 5-10 sites and wish to connect between them its a lot more then just pain to remember each site. After searching web for more then hours i came only one plugin which supported listing my profiles at the same place, but that too was limited in choice.

so finally i decided to create a plugin of my own, so her it is

WORDPRESS : My Profiles

Plugin currenty hosted at my site, will add it to wordpress plugin repository in a day or two as well as trying tomake it available at sourceforge.

Plugin is released under GPL Scheme.

INSTALLATION : its quite straight forward,

download the zip here,

extract it in your wp-content/plugins folder and enable it in your admin panel,

to show your profiles just enable my-profiles widget,

setting’s are available in setting’s panel.

you just have to enter your nicknames in the list and your profile url along with site’s favicon will get placed in your widget.

Hope this help’s some one else like it is helping me.

1) vi is not working as expected, then please use vim, also if you wish to have context highlighting then remove “vim-tiny” and install “vim” and uncomment “syntax on” from /etc/vim/vimrc.

2) if you install wine the instead of trying to setup the environment on your own try wine-doors. (wine-tools is also a good tool but is now getting older and is unmaintained now also it seems to break a lot.)

3) you can try ies4linux to install ie6 its better then any thing.

4) to install MSI installer based apps use “msiexec /i”

5) to get color coded listing in shell uncomment the following line or add the following line in ~/.bashrc

alias ls=’ls –color=auto’
alias dir=’ls –color=auto –format=vertical’
alias vdir=’ls –color=auto –format=long’

6) if you try to unmount any device and its says device busy. then you have two options

a) umount -l <device_name>

b) for the second option you can check here

more tips to follow soon…………

I was in search of a good theme to cater to my blogs need and finally today i have shifted to glossyblue theme, this theme also as my previous theme (itheme) is actually a product of N.Design Studio but is also modified to have 3 - column.

so those looking to have this theme can get it from here

Well although I do need some changes in this theme which i will do as soon as i get time.

Many of us who are dual booting their PCs have a pain when it comes to sharing resources between windows and Linux.

Let’s see what options do we have when it comes to data sharing between two o.s.

1) keep a separate partition as FAT32 for complete interoperability and then keep common data in that partition.

2) second solutions comes easy when we need to access files from windows partition in Linux,
we have native support for FAT32 as well as native read only support for NTFS (extendable to full RW (read Write) support using ntfs-3g) more on this later.

But lets today focus on the other side of the sharing…..

WHAT if you wish to access files from Linux partition while running a windows partition.

AT THIS POINT I WOULD like to introduce you to EXT2IFS which stands for EXT2 Installable File System for windows.

ifsdrive

From the official site

It installs a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system to include the Ext2 file system. Since it is executed on the same software layer at the Windows NT operating system core like all of the native file system drivers of Windows (for instance NTFS, FASTFAT, or CDFS for Joliet/ISO CD-ROMs), all applications can access directly to Ext2 volumes. Ext2 volumes get drive letters (for instance O:). Files, and directories of an Ext2 volume appear in file dialogs of all applications. There is no need to copy files from or to Ext2 volumes in order to work with them.

details can be seen at http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html

download EXT2IFS

although there remains some issues,

1. file system gets case insensitive (due to inherent limitation of windows.)
2. files with starting “.” which symbolizes hidden files are all available for public access.
3. security and user group permission becomes invalid because windows is unable to understand and hence all the files are accessible in windows (including /root to /home folder for all person’s using the system while on windows.

Instead of providing screen shots of my own i would like to redirect you all to the official screenshots

ALSO this is not an open source product this is a freeware.
Open source product that is under development is EXT2FSD.