Author Archives: noorul
My IBM ThinkPad R52 completed six years.
I am not sure whether the title is a good one for blog entry. But I just wanted to write about my laptop which served me for more than 6 years and still alive and kicking. Ever since I started using computers, it was my dream to own one. But during school days it did [...]
Setup org2blog for blogging from emacs.
org2blog is written by Puneeth Chaganti. It is an emacs extension to post org mode sub trees as wordpress blog entries. In order to set this up clone the repository from github. # clone org2blog git repository git clone http://github.com/punchagan/org2blog.git Add the following snippet to ~/.emacs (add-to-list ‘load-path “~/site-lisp/org2blog”) (require ‘org2blog-autoloads) (setq org2blog/wp-blog-alist ‘((“noorul.com” :url [...]
Using google web font for my site.
I was looking for a better font for my blog. My search ended with Droid Sans. This particular font is one among the many fonts that are available as part of Google Web Fonts project. How do I use this inside HTML? Just add the following line under the <head> tag. <link type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans|Droid+Sans:bold|Droid+Sans+Mono” [...]
Apple Warranty Support – Win!
Last July I bought an iPod touch from U.S through one of my colleagues. Recently the home button stopped working. I took it to Reliance Digital iStore, Chennai for servicing. Since the device is still under warranty they said, they will replace the whole unit. They said I will be able to collect the new [...]
Debian Squeeze (aka 6.0) on IBM ThinkPad R52.
Installing the latest version of Debian ThinkPad R52 was not as straight forward as I thought. I had only one issue and this blog post talks about that. Since I manually solved this problem, I hope a blog post might be useful for others. The problem occurs while detecting “Network devices”. The installer is unable [...]
Write consistently!
I started this blog to learn writing and communicate with outside world. Also to make my presence on the web felt. But I am not updating this blog regularly which is very bad. I am a person who admires Sacha Chua (http://sachachua.com) in this particular skill. I have been following her blog ever since she [...]
Orgmode – Generate custom report using external python script.
I use orgmode in emacs as a to-do list manager. End of every week I send my status report to the team. Earlier I used to do this manually by going through the agenda for the week and collecting relevant information. I thought of automating it since this is repeated every week. It was super [...]
Filtering IMAP mails using imapfilter
I use gnus to read my mails. Gnus is a very powerful emacs tool. Basically we don’t require a client side filtering system if one is provided by the server like Google Mail. But we do require one if the server is not supporting filtering mechanism. Initially I was using inbuilt filtering system from gnus. [...]
Web presence!
I am already there on the internet but I never had a consistent web location were people can reach me. So I decided to effectively use my already existing domain noorul.com along with a new hosting provider. I bought noorul.com domain on 02-Aug-2006, almost 4 years from today. The idea was to host my own [...]
Setting up wpa_supplicant on Debian etch (linux 2.6.25.3)
Recently, I was trying to connect to a WiFi access point in my room. Some how the system not able to associate to the access point. It took lots of time for me to find out that WPA-PSK encryption is used. Following steps helped me to setup wpa_supplicant which encrypts the stream. 1. Create wpa_supplicant.conf. [...]