Category Archives: Applications
PhotoRec – Ultimate File Recovery Tool
Here is a successful file recovery process on my Home PC. Though many tools have contributed to this recovery, PhotoRec is the Hero. I am going to narrate the entire story. My PC is PIII-850MHz/192MB/20GB+10GB-HDD, moderately old system more than … Continue reading
System Call tracing in Linux (strace)
strace: When there is a definitive guide to learn Linux system programming, it is heaven to read and practice those examples. Some times we may need to implement some function which is available in the well known tools (or commercial … Continue reading
Request Access – Firefox Extension
Sometimes we encounter “Firewall – Access denied for the web site you requested!” message while surfing from a corporate network. Unfortunately, firewalls sometimes rate a good valid site as blacklisted site. In that case we use to request our system … Continue reading
Cool Firefox 1.5
Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5 web browser yesterday (29th Nov 2005). It has many good features and improvements. I list out the features which I understood and like here. 1.Back and Forward works fast. Everytime when you go forth and … Continue reading
Amazing OpenOffice 2.0!
One of my office colleague was working on a MS-Word (.doc) file with MS-Office 2003. Suddenly one bad day it was corrupted. He could not open the file with MS-Office 2003 suite. The recovery option did not even showed that … Continue reading
emacs for beginner
What is this? I was eager to learn emacs editor some times back. One fine day started with emacs by just typing “emacs” in command prompt; but did not know how to come out of emacs and also not able … Continue reading
