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Know ICICI Securities charges!
I was not completely aware of the following charges that ICICIDirect levied on every transaction. The general brokerage that is charged for delivery based trading is 0.75% of the trade value or Rs.25 whichever is higher. For the transaction value less than Rs.1000 the flat brokerage of 2.5 % will be applicable. Service Tax @ [...]
IBM ThinkPad R52 and linux
I upgraded my kernel from 2.6.21 to 2.6.22. But, somehow with the same .config from 2.6.21 didn’t work as I expected with 2.6.22. The model R52 comes with IDE CD-ROM drive. So I wanted to use the ide drivers with scsi emulation for CD-ROM. I compiled ide modules into the kernel so that it gets [...]
Compiling emacs-unicode from cvs on debian etch.
Emacs-22+ doesn’t support Xft fonts, hence the look and feel of emacs on X-Windows is not that good. But development is going on to provide this feature in emacs. The emacs-unicode-2 branch for emacs has this feature, hopefully this will get integrated to emacs-23. I followed the following steps to compile emacs-unicode from CVS. 1. [...]