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The aforementioned instructions/steps worked for me running CentOS. It may very well work for you on Red Hat-like distributions or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions to update PHP/MySQL (or other packages) on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, [...]

The Outing
After much deliberation by my dear friend (and his colleagues) that lasted for nearly 18 hours, it was decided that on Sunday, the 6th of April 2008, they would visit Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area. The underlying plan was to have their portraits taken (by yours-truly) with waterfalls/ravines/woods as the background.

Why Worth Forgetting?
After [...]

Ever since I moved away from the other Operating System (a.k.a. Microsoft Windows), there have been many hours spent searching for Kannada fonts - on both Linux and Macintosh. I had satisfactory amount of success on Linux in this regard with hatch-patch approaches. The release of KannadaLaTeX (which has the most sensible transliteration rules by [...]

Disclaimer
The instructions/steps/scripts/methods given below worked for me running CentOS. 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 its [...]

Disclaimer
These instructions worked for me in CentOS 4.0. It may very well work for you on Red Hat-like or other distributions. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions to back up and restore MySQL databases on your machines, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this [...]