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TIP: Simple Regular Expression for Email Validation

August 18, 2009

I was playing around with Ruby on Rails and needed an email field for some application. I thought of validating the email address before actually saving it. Googled for same and got tons of results, but none of them was perfect. Few were somewhat exhaustive but horribly difficult to understand and those which were simple [...]

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How To: Install and Configure GitWeb

January 28, 2009

Goal Setting up gitweb (web interface for SCM software git) for your project’s git repository for public access and developer commits via ssh. Assumptions You already have your project’s git repository. You have hosting space somewhere to host gitweb. You have root access. You are using Apache as webserver. Example for this howto Project : [...]

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How To: Boot Fedora Faster

December 9, 2008

Note: These tricks apply to any Linux based OS. But I have tested them only on Fedora, so can’t say whether they’ll work on other Linux(s). My current Fedora installation is now almost one and a half years old. Yes. I am still using Fedora 7 I have Fedora 10 on my other machine. Coming [...]

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How To: Install Fedora without CD or DVD

August 26, 2008

Note: If you are new to Fedora/Linux, I highly recommend the book “Fedora Linux Toolbox” [amazon-product alink="0000FF" bordercolor="000000" height="240"]0470082917[/amazon-product] Use Case When you don’t have CD / DVD drive on your system. You have Fedora DVD but your system has only a CD Drive. You don’t want to waste time and resources in burning iso [...]

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How To: Test Fedora Pre-release

August 17, 2008

If you want your Fedora to be best ever, just grab a copy of Fedora DVD or live iso from here and test the features you like. Checkout the Fedora 10 feature list and test as many as possible. If you don’t have access to optical media (cd/dvd rom) and want to try the live [...]

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How To: Write Custom Redirector or Rewritor Plugin For Squid in Python

April 30, 2008

Mission To write a custom Python program which can act as a plugin for Squid to redirect a given URL to another URL. This is useful when already existing redirector plugins for Squid doesn’t suit your needs or you want everything of your own. Use Cases When you want to redirect URLs using a database [...]

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How To: Write Custom Basic Authentication Plugin for Squid in Python

April 24, 2008

Mission To write a Python program which can be used to authenticate for Squid proxy server. This is useful when you don’t want to configure complex systems like LDAP, ntlm etc. Use Cases When you want to authenticate clients using mysql database. When you want to authenticate clients using flat files or /etc/passwd file or [...]

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How To: Install and Configure Shoutcast Radio

November 20, 2007

Shoutcast is a mp3 broadcasting/streaming media server software provided by NullSoft. One can setup a server on any system, GNU/Linux / Windows/ MacOS and can stream mp3 over the network, internet/intranet. I setup shoutcast on my system a long back and found it very useful. Here is a step by step how to on how [...]

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Review: Fedora 8 – Warewolf

November 10, 2007

I installed Fedora 8 32 bit from a leaky mirror on Nov 7th and I just had a very bad experience with it. Nothing seemed to be working. But I can’t accept that. As I am a hardcore fan of Fedora, I just can’t sit back and say “ah, Fedora 8 sucks, i am not [...]

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How To: Install Javascript Plugin in Eclipse

November 9, 2007

Today, I installed Eclipse on my Fedora 7 desktop. Everything is fine, but the default Eclipse does not have a plugin for JavaScript. So , I searched a lot on Google and read a lot of reviews about some JavaScript plugins available for Eclipse. And I finally reached the JSEclipse plugin by Adobe Labs. I [...]

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