Dharshin

How to Change Google Country Redirect in Firefox

Dharshin — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:58:59 +0000

This article discusses about how to change Google country redirect to whatever your want from firefox permanently. The problem: When I’m using Google search at my office, it get automatically redirected to google.co.jp site. But I’m living in Sri Lanka and can’t read Japanese at all. The correct site for me should be google.lk. If you have [...]

How To Get System Up-Time In Windows XP Professional

Dharshin — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:29:57 +0000

In Linux and Unix machines, getting the uptime is quite straight forward; just type uptime on a terminal and you’ll get the uptime. But in Windows XP machine, such command does not exist. But you can view uptime or running time with systeminfo command. Get a command prompt (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command [...]

Cisco IOS Command Aliases to Make Your Life Easier

Dharshin — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:24:12 +0000

How many times do you type show ip interface brief, copy run start, configure terminal, show running-config, etc. But isn’t there a way to make thing easier? Yes there is, that’s command aliases feature provided in Cisco IOS. Aliases are configured within a mode; exec: #, global configuration: (config)#, interface configuration: (config-if)#, router configuration: (config-router)#, etc. [...]

Control Console and Terminal Logging in Cisco Router and Switches

Dharshin — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:06:42 +0000

You might have experienced that while you are typing a command on a terminal, some stuff get thrown to the terminal by the router or the switch making it a mess. This stuff can be useful specially when you are configuring a routing protocol or changing setting on an interface. However messages like the following, [...]

Disable DNS Lookup in Cisco Routers and Switches

Dharshin — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:59:10 +0000

This article discusses how you can disable DNS lookup on Cisco routers and switches and effect when DNS lookup is enabled. Problem: In privilege EXEC mode, if you type in something other than a Cisco IOS command, the router assumes that you typed a domain name and it tries to resolve what ever you type. Although this [...]

Creat Local repository in Ubuntu

Dharshin — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:38:21 +0000

This might come in handy if you got many machines to install applications or if you want to backup the packages you downloaded using apt, synaptic or any other any .deb package. This is a nice piece of software called APTonCD, which is very simple to use, even for a user without much technical knowledge. All [...]

How to Download videos From Almost Any Site - Part 1

Dharshin — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:01:02 +0000

I don’t like to watch videos online because they do not play smoothly and sometime I have to wait until it buffers. On top of that my ISP sucks. Here I have some methods I used to download videos and play them offline. Information here should not be used for illegal and unethical purposes and must [...]

How to download videos from Google Videos

Dharshin — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:37:22 +0000

This is very simple; all you need is Mozilla Firefox and an extension for Firefox. There are many plugins and tools out there to do this, but I like these, because I do not need to run any extra application. I should also mention that there are number of Firefox extensions to do this. For the [...]

Paging Results with PHP and MYSQL – Part 2

Dharshin — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:20:09 +0000

Welcome to part 2, if you didn’t read part 1, please do, because this is a continuation of that. Now we want to go a step further and add “First” and “Last” links to our navigation. “First” should point to the first page of our result set and last should point to the last page. If [...]

Paging Results With PHP and MYSQL - Part 1

Dharshin — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:02:53 +0000

Lets say you got a site that prints out some result based on a search or lists some items and it has hundreds of rows. Therefore, you end up having a lengthy list, which is hard to read. If your list contains images, hundreds of images get loaded on a single page. This is not [...]