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Threaded Comments in WordPress

Image via Wikipedia WordPress has a builtin feature of allowing threaded comments for your posts. This feature is by default disabled and has to be “enabled”… Here is how to do that: Login to your WordPress install as Admin(or a user with Admin permissions). Navigate to the “Settings” menu and the “Discussions” option in that […]

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Calibrating Your Monitor…

Image via Wikipedia Its important to calibrate your monitor espcially if you are a photographer and want to see the images exactly the way they will be printed. One of the simplest methods of calibrating your monitor is to use Screen Check Points to remember: Start with Maximum Contrast and adjust your screen brightness to […]

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Setting Grub Options The Right Way

Grub is the default boot loader for Ubuntu and it comes with a huge set of options that you might be inclined to tweek when ever you choose to debug a problem during bootup.  The simple quickfire way to make Grub do what you want is to edit it just before the boot process occurs […]

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Splitting and Joining Files in Ubuntu

Ubuntu has a neat application to split large files into smaller chunks(for emails or to burn into disks).  The application splits files into the format <filename>.<extension>.<part>.  The same application can be used to rejoin the files to recreate the original larger file. Spliting: To be able to split file you need the application “lxsplit”. It […]

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Sorting Text Files

The sort command is an handy tool to sort text files in linux. Its very simple and easy to use. Lets say we want to sort the following file with the file name sorttest: