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Vanilla ice cream vs general motors
Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General motors!!!! An Interesting Story Never underestimate your Customers’ Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem! This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive. A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:
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Pidgin Master Password Patch
Pidgin stores the passwords of the accounts in plain text in a xml file (i.e. if you have enabled the “save password” option for the accounts). Anyone who can get read access to this xml file (accounts.xml) will know the passwords of all the accounts for which you have chosen to save the password. This…
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File Encryption Using GPG And Editing Using Vim
File encryption is a useful feature. Especially if you want to store some sensitive information in a file on your PC or mail someone a file with sensitive data. GPG allows us to encrypt files using either a password or public-private-key pair. Further, a vim plugin is available which allows you to edit the gpg…
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Lessons of the Square Watermelon
Japanese grocery stores had a problem. They are much smaller than their US counterparts and therefore don’t have room to waste. Watermelons, big and round, wasted a lot of space. Most people would simply tell the grocery stores that watermelons grow round and there is nothing that can be done about it. That is how…
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Choosing A Web Hosting Provider
My site had faced a big downtime last week – for 4 consecutive days. Thanks to the then hosting provider Powweb, I had to face this problem. As a matter of fact, I had sent them a mail immediately when my site went down. They took 2 days to respond and said that the problem…
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Need for Backup
Note: See also the follow up to this article about some of the Linux Backup Solutions Some things are learned the hard way and the importance of taking backup was among those. While I will not get into the details about how to take backup I just want to stress on the importance of backups.…
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Mail Retriever
A mail retriever is used to retrieve mails from remote mail servers. This is especially useful if you want to retrieve mails from remote mail servers and deliver it to your local mail server or store in your local machine. Fetchmail and getmail are mail retrievers which enable you to retrieve mails using the standard…
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Setting Up Mail Server (With MDA, IMAP And Webmail)
Mail Server Using your own mail server, you can have mails delivered directly. Certain things I looked out for while choosing a mail server for my personal use: – Support for regular operating system accounts (unix logins) – IMAP support (either inbuilt / external) – Webmail support (either inbuilt / external) – Maildir format supported…
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Adding JPEG Comments
MaPiVi is a photo organizing software which can be used to add comments to JPEG files (always take a backup of your photos as this software works on it directly). However, MaPiVi is no longer being maintained actively. Another graphical tool which can be used for editing JPEG comments is XnViewMP. Originially written for Mac,…