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Rotini with cheese and cream

Pasta is comfort food for me, specially white sauce pasta. I try to make the cooking exciting by changing the recipe at times. Some times I add tomato sauce to it or there are time when I have even tried to use cooking wine to my white sauce. I came across this recipe in one [...]

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Convert AVCHD video to MPEG-2

I have a Canon H100 video camera. This records high definition 1080p videos in a digital video format called AVCHD. It has been a pain to watch these videos. First of all, these videos don’t even play properly on my single core PC. My 3-4 year old PC is just not powerful enough. The video [...]

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Wake up your PC from your xbox using xbmc

I read an old lifehacker article on wake-on-lan the other day and decided I should try it on my home network. After using the free tool Magic Packet Sender mentioned in the article successfully, I thought how cool would it be to start my media server from my xbox. I use my xbox as my [...]

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Same music album showing up multiple times on iPhone

I created an album with different artists to listen on my iPhone. To my horror all the songs showed up as separate albums. Cover flow showed up the same album art for each of the songs. I hated this!! The fix is pretty quick. You have to make sure of the following to make your [...]

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Mutton Curry revisited

I got about 5 pounds of goat leg from Waltham India Grocer. It is an Indian grocery store which also sells Halal meat. I normally get my meat from Cheema Supermarket but as I was in the neighborhood, I just picked it up from Waltham.

I was making my usual Mutton Curry and half way through [...]

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First warm weekend of 2010

What a phenomenal weekend! It was nice and sunny and the best part was it was not too hot!

Food wise it was a great weekend too.. Friday night we went to Aegean in Framingham. Their bread basket had fresh baked bread and Pita bread. This came with olive oil and feta cheese. This combination was [...]

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A better cygwin terminal - rxvt

rxvt is so much more better than the default cygwin terminal. You will thank me once you switch to using rxvt. To get rxvt working without starting an X Server, just create a shortcut using the following -

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg green -bg black -fn "Lucida Console-14" -e bash –login -i

This is assuming that cygwin is installed [...]

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Grep for multiple stuff in one file

Update: See the comments to see how to do this correctly.

the UNIX grep command is very powerful, but the egrep command is even more powerful. You can grep for multiple strings in a file using the egrep command. All you have to do is use the | (or) symbol and add as many strings you [...]

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Find user details on windows user in a domain

Here is a quick tip – If you want to find out details on a user account on windows inside a particular domain use the following command on a DOS prompt

net user username /domain

where the username is the username of the account you want more information on. You can get a lot of information with [...]

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Hit by AV.EXE virus - Cannot run any programs

I recently got hit by the AV.EXE virus. This was a really bad virus. I got a pop up which looked as if it was a windows dialogue box telling me to install this anti spyware/virus scanner. I knew I should not even touch the popup box and not even try to close it. The [...]

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