Recently we implemented proxy authentication and lot some amount of content filtering at my college. Several people here are using wget as the download manager. Here is how you make wget work behind the proxy. sunil@debianserver:~$ export http_proxy=192.168.0.5:3128 ( Replace with your proxy ip and port). You can specify the proxy user name and password… Continue reading wget behind a proxy server with authentication
My Visit to KITE Colleges
During my stay in Hyderabad , I had the opportunity to visit a wonderful institute named kite colleges. It is, in fact, two colleges situated in same campus. The colleges started functioning this year. At present only first year classes are going on. They are located approximately 60km from Hyderabad in the Ranga Reddy… Continue reading My Visit to KITE Colleges
Learning device drivers
I wrote this charater device driver for learning how they work.This is actually an assignment that we got today. . Prof. TS Reddy from JNTU helped me to debug the code. I am planning to make a tutorial on it once I reach home. The course is becoming more and more exciting. The internet access… Continue reading Learning device drivers
Generating number sequences in shell scripts
I learned this technique from a fellow participant . $ yes |nl |head -100 |cut -f1 You can remove the new lines as below. $ yes |nl |head -100 | cut -f1| tr ‘\n’ ‘\t’ Cool. Otherwise, my course is progressing well. I wrote a simple file transfer daemon and implemented the client.. Now, I… Continue reading Generating number sequences in shell scripts
Update from prepare future
It was pretty heavy work for 2 days. Yesterday, I was taught about file io and related system calls followed by environment variables , things like parsing command lines etc. I could not finish all the exercises as I went out to see the city. Took a local bus tio HiTech city and then caught… Continue reading Update from prepare future