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 …

Here is a trick to to create a comma delimited file from oracle. You can create a csv file simply using SQL*Plus with any sql statement. Here it is -

set feedback off  
set heading off  
set underline off  
set colsep ','  
spool /path/to/file/mysheet.csv  
select * from table …

It is easy to send a text file as the body of an email from UNIX. You can do it using the command below

mail -s "Email with file as body" email@domain.com < message.txt

Now if you want to send a file as an attachment, you would need …

Chicken 65 - Any Hyderabadi’s favorite dish! Well, I guess maybe after the hyderabadi Biryani :)  I dont want to start any holy wars here but today my post is about Chicken 65. A lot has been talked about this dish’s origin which can read on wikipedia. I believe Sanjay …

I have been thinking about cooking chicken a little differently than what I have normally been making lately. Lately I cook it with a south Indian flare as that is how my wife, me and my brother like it. You can find the recipe for the south indian spicy chicken …