Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me running CentOS 4.0. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.net, nor [...]

Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me running CentOS 4.0. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.net, nor [...]

Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me running CentOS 4.0. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.net, nor [...]

For those that have known me for last six years or so, my obsession with softball is nothing new. I love this game so much so that holy spirits have been taking a back seat from early Spring till late Fall for the last couple years (thanks to a dear someone who solved the mystery [...]

Disclaimer These instructions/steps worked for me and it may very well work for you on Sun OS / linux distributions. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine (either for this particular application and/or for other kind of information), you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that [...]

Disclaimer These instructions/steps worked for me and it may very well work for you. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.net, nor its author is responsible for any/all damage - intellectual or otherwise. A while [...]

Disclaimer Below given instructions are what I used to copyright my images on my Apple MacBook Pro running OS X v10.5.x and these may very well work for you. However, please note that you are using these instructions at your very own risk and this website, sgowtham.net, is not responsible for any/all damage caused to your [...]

March 29, 2008 - a warm, yet pleasant Saturday afternoon - I was driving back from my first visit to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area when I saw the signs to mineral museum - not one, but two!! I should have carried The Picking Table (Journal of The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society) that Dr. [...]

It has been a couple days since most of the mankind, including myself, went through the pains of updating to the latest and greatest iPhone software yet, and I have had some time to play around with some of its new features and try out some of the free cool apps. What follows below are [...]

Belonging to the kind of neophiliacs who just can’t prevent the itch for new things as well as cannot rest until trying it out, I too connected my iPhone (the 2G version) to iTunes and hit the Update button. Things looked slow yet promising but then came a series of dreaded error messages (I should [...]

The Days (Years) Leading Up To The Day It was the mid 90s - while much of our community was enjoying the new found concept of Satellite TV (Star Sports, BBC, CNN and Chinese Entertainment were the only satellite channels on the menu), the concept of TV itself - as was everything else that had [...]

Following my previous post, about importing comments from flickr.com to my home-made photoblog, buddy Kyle thought it would be useful to have a similar API which can import comments from flickr.com into a photoblog powered by Pixelpost. Although posting the same pictures on two different platforms - once in a personal photoblog and once in [...]

As much as I would like to see my photographs being commented in my personally satisfying photoblog, I have recently come to realize (thanks to suggestions from several friends - Nagesh & Kyle) that it’s not a bad idea to post the same pictures on flickr.com. For one, the latter is a multi-user platform with [...]

It has been nearly five months since I moved from Upper Michigan to the East Coast. I would be lying if I said I liked this move and that I have been enjoying my stay here in general. I would also be lying if I said I haven’t met cool/kind/friendlier people in this part of [...]

What is FetchMail? According to its developers, FetchMail is a full-featured and robust remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. It retrieves mail from remote mail servers (POP3, IMAP, ODMR, ETRN) and forwards it to a local machine’s mail delivery system for local reading. As to why I need it, the school email account allocates [...]