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Cheapest Laptop Cooler - Water Packets

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Hi Folks - The only problem with my Dell Latitude D630 laptop is while watching a movie. Over a period of time it star ts getting warmer (it never hung though). This is probably common with all laptops, I've seen lenovos heat up faster and sometimes freeze too. So I started surfing for a good laptop cooler. While searching it occurred to me that most of them are USB based, which further draws another 5V from the laptop, i felt something was seriously wrong here. In the meanwhile my laptop was getting warmer ag ain and seriously wan ted to do something fast, i looked around and found a plastic bottle of water. I immediately put that under my laptop, and it actually st arted to cool off. Wow ! However it was a bit inconvenient to work with the bottle of water under the laptop. On surfing further for water cooler solutions, i found a guy used a ' hot water pack ', filled with room temperature water and that worked for him. Thanks to him, I further thought of a more che aper a...
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Active and Passive Smokers

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Post-Lunch 1-2-1 discussions on unrelated matters, please understand, this is smoking time ! From Left:- Kiran, Satish, Prem and Arun. PS1: Cigarettes are hidden for security reasons ! PS2: The pic might look weird because its being stitched (panorama) (Courtesy: ArcSoft Panorama Maker )
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Late Wednesday Evening Ebiz Meetings

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Happens every Wednesday by 7:30pm when we all sit together in Arun's Office having a telephonic "meeting" with our US colleagues. From Left:- Ravi, Vasanth (face not seen), Ganesh (face not seen), Arun, Ehatsham (on the table), Raman (standing), Stephen (covering his mouth), Ketan (with a smile).
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Securely Authenticating SQLPLUS

DESTFILE=/tmp/test.sql PWFILE=/etc/pass.crypt su - oracle -c ". /etc/profile;export ORACLE_SID=orcl;sqlplus sys/`crypt key < ${PWFILE}` @${DESTFILE} << EOF"
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Increase hotmail quota from 2MB to 250MB

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ STEPS: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Login ur hotmail account and go to options. Go to "Personal" Click "My Profile" Change Country to "United States" Wait for browser to load United states settings. Change the state to "Florida" and zip code "33332" Click "update" Click "Continue" Go to "Language" and make sure its "English" Paste this link in the same browser. http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/Accountclose Wait until the Screen says you're Hotmail is Closed and ready to be deleted. Click "Close My Account". Go back to login page and relogin to ur hotmail account..!! Your account size will now increase to 25 MB which a mnth later becomes 250 mb. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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.cshrc script for solaris

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # @(#)cshrc 1.11 89/11/29 SMI # set protection umask 022 set prompt="`uname -n` $LOGNAME \!> " set history=100 savehist=100 # limit the size of the history files set filec # enable filename completion +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Ctrl + Alt + Del on vncviewer for Unix

How to Ctrl + Alt + Del your vncviewer running from a unix box which has windows vnc'ed. Ans. Use 'F8' :-)
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Freeing Space

Found 2 utilities which did saved me lots of space: - WinDirStat (from sourceforge) and downloaded from an alternate source http://sf.gds.tuwien.ac.at/w/wi/windirstat/ - Check Identical Files v2.14 http://www.abc-view.com/cif.html And just in case if you have cleaned up too much of your space, then download Ontrack DataRecovery 6.04 software :-)
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xstartup file of Vncserver for Solaris

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAT .vnc/xstartup for SUN SOLARIS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults eval `locale_env -env` # Set Locale Environment DTXSERVERLOCATION="remote" SESSIONTYPE="altDt" SDT_ALT_SESSION="/usr/dt/bin/dtsession" SDT_ALT_HELLO="/usr/dt/bin/dthello &" export DTXSERVERLOCATION SESSIONTYPE SDT_ALT_SESSION SDT_ALT_HELLO /usr/dt/bin/Xsession display = `echo $DISPLAY | sed -e 's/.*:/:/'` ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Hard Links

There is this guy who came asking on how do we search for hard links, i thought of initially writing a shell script, but then found out that our dear old unix 'find' did that job. find . -name '*.c' -printf "%n:%i:%p \n" (or just do a) find . -name '*.c' -ls %n - tells the number of hard links %i - gives u the inode number %p - the filename
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My Space

Thanks to Sam .... i have started writing my first blog. Hope this could be made useful and could benefit one who uses it. -Premson.
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