This post is my way of having a sticky to see how to extract initial RAM disk images. 1. Plain ol’ gzip – initrd.gz Extracts the contents of the archive to the current directory. 2. CPIO images – initrd.img Extracts the contents of the CPIO image to the current directory…
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
All things miscellaneous
Everything has changed, yet nothing has
This week I wrapped up the last bits remaining for moving my site. “But it’s still here!”, you may ask. Well I moved my web hosting and domain providers this week. The site is still the same (infrequent updates and all). I am trying out DigitalOcean as a VPS provider. Their packages (and better control…
Shopping for my first NAS
Note: This post was published with a date in the past. Feel free to post comments with this context in mind. This post describes my experience shopping around for my first NAS. Maybe it will help someone looking to get a new NAS themselves. It is not possible to go into excruciating details of every…
Blog in the attic
Whoa! Look what I found here. <blows over the dust-covered surface>… <cough>, <cough> <cough> It’s my blog! Hmm… Last post was more than 2 years ago. Gosh! What was I doing all this time? Oh wait, a lot has happened these past few years. I am a married man now. Got married to my sweetheart…
Portal 2, maps & more
I must say that I am a big fan of Valve games ever since I played Half-Life. I believe, till date, there have been few (if any) game developers who make games as immersive as Valve does. There is a continuous link to each campaign and prequels and sequels fall seamlessly into place. I had…
Happy New Year 2012!
A beautiful quote to ring in the new year: A beautiful year is waiting for you.Walk with aims,Run with confidence, andFly with achievements. – Anonymous Wishing everyone a very happy and a prosperous new year 2012!…
Merry Christmas 2011!
It’s Christmas and it brings us the joy and excitement that we have come to experience with it every year…
What next?
Alright! So here I am with my own blog, hosted on my own website. It has all started with a bang even with the date et al. First up, I’d like to thank all of you for the appreciation and encouragement that you’ll have given me on my very first post. It has given me…
That very first post!
I had been thinking of creating my own blog for the past two years. The thought’s been hammering me everyday. Every beautiful blog or even just a well written article has always urged me to do this. Today is 11/11/11 (11-Nov-2011, once in a 100 years in short date notation) and I have finally gotten…