http://www.nalinmakar.com Nalin's Labyrinth Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:30:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/17/this-door-is-alarmed/ The following example shows a java class that can be used to verify if you connection to MS SQL Server using JDBC is working properly. The following code establishes a connection to MS SQL server and then executes a query to print system tables. You need to get Microsoft's JDBC ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/13/connect-to-ms-sql-server-using-jdbc/ One of my friends is using a really messed up Dell Inspiron 8600 right now that should have actually been decommissioned ages ago... Almost the whole of left half of the screen is useless and it needs a support to hold up the screen while in use. Pictures below show ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/10/my-friends-laptop/ Oh Shit !! Come on... you can make it... Yesssssssss ! http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/07/triumph/ I have been using Wordpress since version 1.x and back then there was no native support for tags in Wordpress. Easiest thing to add tags to post was to use UTW or other plugins and because of my new found love for tags then, I started using WP-Tagerati and then ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/06/removing-tags-from-posts-contents-in-wordpress/ Yesterday I installed VMware Workstation 6.5 on my fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10. After powering on a Windows XP vm, I realized that I could not use the arrow keys properly. On hitting the left arrow key, start menu was being displayed and other arrow keys had similar issues. Also, ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/11/12/vmware-player-and-ubuntu-810-keyboard-mapping-issues/ Last Friday I upgraded my install from Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on my office workstation and I noticed that I was unable to assign static IP to the machine. After reboot the netmask was getting messed up and reset to 22. Look at this bug for more info. So, ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/11/08/static-ip-address-on-ubuntu-810/ I finally got myself to fix some more bugs and add a couple of new things into the HemingwayEx Wordpress theme. I received a few suggestions on features that could be added and after thinking about it a bit, I add some more things to this theme. This will (99.99%) ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/09/02/hemingwayex-15-final/ I recently upgraded my office computer from Gusty to Hardy and VMware player stopped working for me. I looked around a bit and found a nice step-by-step guide to get it up and running. Here are the steps: cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig sudo tar xvf vmmon.tar cd vmmon-only/include/ sudo vi vcpuset.h change line 74 from: ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/05/05/vmware-player-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/ I have finally found time now and then in the past three weeks and tweaked HemingwayEx to work with Wordpress 2.3+ and Wordpress 2.5. I have fixed a lot of small issues here and there with CSS and the PHP code. I also added few more options to make the ... http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/04/29/hemingwayex-11-is-finally-here/