Reaching out to others! Free & Open Source Software, Kannada, L10n, L18n Data Science, Cloud Computing & more…

Setting GRUB password

If you don’t want any one to access your system without permission, you should confirm that you don’t have recovery mode enabled in GRUB boot loader or it must be password protected. Otherwise any one can get into root console as and change the password to...

Polio vaccination – not poison

I reached home very late today. While traveling I could see the unusual traffic. Many were walking to near by hospitals around west of chord road. As I reached my place, I could see that both roads where I normally travel were filled by worried people concerned about...
MotoMing as USB audio player

MotoMing as USB audio player

I was planning to get an iPod Touch for a while now. Today when I went out for shopping early morning, I tought of purchasing a thumb drive so that I can use it until I get my iPod touch. Instead, I went ahead and bought a 2GB Micro SD card. I remember purchasing a...

Set email alerts for cron jobs

After scheduling the cron jobs, its important to ensure that they are running without any errors.  In such cases it’s important to set email alerts for crontab. To set email alert for your cron jobs; Edit the crontab entry: $ crontab -e and enter the email...