Recover files from a media in Linux

Accidently deleting files from your memory card or pen-drive is a common mistake. I searched for a software which could work in linux and I got an awesome one. Its a command line tool.
You can install it by typing:
sudo apt get install testdisk
Now connect the media into your system and run the tool by typing photorec in your terminal.
This will give you a screen like this:

Now select the appropriate media and the directory to save the recovered files. Its done !!

Download entire website using WGET

It is quite often that you find a tutorial website and you get this voice from within that “Yeah, I want this all !!”. I had it too recently but alas, it was horrifying to even think of saving each and every HTML page. A quick search in the Internet gave me a perfect and the most awesome solution. wget does it again !!

You can recirsively download the entire website using wget with a -r option. Here is the code snippet:
wget -r http://www.tutorials.com/
and you get the entire website in a directory inside your system. Now if u have a local server installed in your system, HURRAY, move the directory into /var/www/ and read it in you browser with the same feel of reading the live website. This is so awesome not because it is complicated but because it is bloody damn simple.

 

‘Cata-Morphosis’ – Catastrophic Metamorphosis

The last few months were a renaissance for me. I changed not because I wanted it, people around me wanted for “really” unknown reasons. I wished it had been in a better way but yes, I got to understand the world better. I realized that 20 years of my life was nothing less than a waste. A careful re-assessment makes it crystal clear. Think of a person who nodded his head forgetting about himself just to see others smile. He used to listen to others just to make them feel that there was someone who will listen to them at all times. Laughed liked a kid just because others said they liked to see him as a kid. And one fine day, all of them calling him an impractical, childish and a good for nothing fellow. This is the world now. Either go with it or cry with it. Both the class of people reside in the same boat having loads and loads to loose to this world of shit all around.

It took a lot of courage in me to mould myself and learn things I never wished to learn. What does it feel when your own parents think that you are a piece of shit? I now have an answer. For 20 years, I mistook this world to be good. I was terribly wrong. This is a shit tank which is a breeding place for all selfish and self-centered people, still shamelessly boasting of their blunt and “worthy-to-pity” talents. People who think they took a decision that could choose the better half of life is actually most dumb ones. The fact is, life is to live, not to be planned. I choose to forget everything like the dawn after the dusk and let the sunlight fall upon me. I choose to forgive all the people who came to my life with thorns and I, with only pride and all the love, pray that let it turn into flowers and fall upon themselves.

I had endured a lot which only I can understand as there are some things which are better understood if they are felt. After all this, I smiled again and again promising to myself, each time that it will never vanish.

After 20 years of nothingness, I m desperate for the awesomeness to come my way and I want none, except the ones I choose to come and have a word of advice. After 20 years of nothingness, I choose to live by my rules.

The First

An autumn evening, an orange sky                                           
Brown leaves decorating the path,
Musical ambience as the birds cry,
Trees emerging from a sunshine bath.

We walked, admiring the beautiful nature,
A big rock was where we chose to pause,
Mother earth and us, without a creature,
Exploring her eyes made the nature applause.

Falling into it as the time stopped,
Watching the cold winds slap her face,
We kissed our first, as the birds popped,
It was a life, waiting for His grace.

We asked the sun not to sleep,
Trust the moon,he will gaurd us,
A word, which he promised to keep,
We thanked him, for what he does.

We walked back with memories in hand,
Nothin at all, but to love and be loved,
Eyes followed her to the farthest land,
To Him i plead, let me love and be loved.

Sakshat – The Indian Tablet PC

Indian Government, amidst of all the Ram(dev)lila and Hazzare hazzards, manages to please its people with this new venture called SAKSHAT. This is a project undertaken by the Government of India to provide quality and hi-tech education to the masses at lower costs. Its an initiative to secure the future of India. In this rapidly changing tech oriented society, a project like this is a boost to both the Indian people and the projection of our country’s advancement in the outer world.

The amount of awesomeness overflows when the tablet will be available in the Indian market for just 35$ that is around Rs 2200 which is totally acceptable. Wait, hold on, for students and teachers, it will be available at half the price, that is around Rs 1100. This is the cost of the cheapest phone from Nokia !! The rest 50% of the cost will be paid by the government. This tablet is developed by IITs and the IISc in collaboration with HCL technologies which is India’s one of the leading PC makers. The same thing, if labelled an international brand  name would definitely cost atleast five times its price.

Another cool thing is that this tablet runs on Linux -the Android OS. Many of the reviews termed this feature as “uncool” but according to me, this is the coolest as the future of all the software industry lies in OPEN SOURCE development. This Android gadget will open the doors for all the Indian hackers out there to explore the gadget without having their pockets empty. As the world is full of Android rooters, India will hold the “Sakshat-Android” rooters !! Well, considering its price, it will be much more satisfying to hack a Sakshat than to hack an Android device and play with it.

This product was scheduled to release in Jan this year but was postponed and now it is expected to be out soon, just a matter of days. This is a commendable leap by the Government of India. Go India, Go !!

A Melodious Renaissance

Beyond the moist width, I stand there,
Of all the daily chores, to sing is here,
A distant melody faint in my ears,
Nature and me is all that hears.

A call for help for the sorrow she bears,
Hail Almighty, if He punishes the liars,
Pain and agony came out loud,
A soothing thunder beating the cloud.

A story told with a tune along,
Felt as if this is where i belong,
Grief touched as an arrow so sharp,
Enlightened me of a long lived crap.

Sparkling diamonds like a Cinderella smile,
Like a princess who sung for a little while,
Marching towards the darkest wild,
Having blessed a lonely little child.

The PLUS era begins

Google + is out, and out in a style. Within hours of its launch, users started using their “next-gen” social activity. Google+ is a sure threat to Facebook if the idea of it and the user interface is concerned. I would like to share a few features, which I noticed since I started using it.

 

• Firstly, the user interface is clearly the thing to speak about. Google managed to blow the users over with the most visually appealing UI ever made on net. The simplicity but its unique style is pleasing to the eyes and feels good to use it. The UI clearly beats Facebook and is a long way ahead. Facebook on the other side, never really gave importance on UI it seems. Surely now they would have started gathering their UI teams to have a thought about it.
• The privacy and security that the + offers is very impressive. The “view profile as” feature is one cool thing to talk about. To disable sharing of particular posts and comments for a certain number of people is like walking on t +. Network visibility and controlling incoming posts is another new idea in social  networking. This can be reframed by saying that it is just way cooler than Facebook.
• Now that it is evident that every internet user in the world has at least one Google service under his belt, the “Data Liberation” thing is just awesomeness. Its just a click away from downloading all your data associated with Picassa, Blogger and other common services offered by Google. With all the Google services linked to each other, it is just another level of social networking that we are experiencing now.
• The groups in Facebook and the follow option in twitter has always won its place in the web. Google+ steps forward with circles. Managing groups of a particular type of people will never be easier. Circles is a revolution, atleast to me for it integrates the useful and the cooler elements of Facebook and Twitter.
• If Google+ is different from Facebook and other social networking sites, it is by and large because of this feature- Hangouts. This new name of group video chatting even beats Skype for a change. This has surely won a place in the users mind.
• “Now you can publicly +1 me”. +1 is Google’s answer to Like in Facebook. But, in a way it is way better than its counterpart in Facebook just because it influences the whole wolrd wide web. +1 me and I will be a little more popular in the web than before. That is what it means in Google +.
• Ability to edit comments is just another feature which slaps Facebook. No more will you need to delete and repost your comment if you have made a mistake.
• Sparks – people can share their wildest interests with others. Sparks also allows you to classify you as a person on the web.

Google has been phenomenal in the world of business for the last few years. It has emerged as the coolest firm on earth. With android and its long range of apps, it is just making “everything” possible. The PLUS era begins and its time we move on to a much forward domain of social networking. Now there is another name added to the world of social networking apart Twitter and Facebook.

Hey, by the way, just PLUS  me and add me in your CIRCLE. Lets see if we have some SPARKS in common. Maybe we could HANGOUT !!!