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 [...]

It has been a while and many things (Apache and Virtual Hosts) have been working smoothly for few years now but I could never quite figure out how to set up the secure portion. Had tried it several times with very little success and a bit more (extensive) search later, I think I have it [...]

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 [...]

MAC Address for a camera? I echo your questioning and feelings. And what follows below is my explanation for its necessity, advantages as well as disadvantages.
Take for example a normal, advanced amateur photographer or even pro-photographers - it’s not uncommon for them to have more than one camera as part of their arsenal. One [...]

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, 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 [...]

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There are very many options that can be used while exporting and mounting NFS partitions as well as while custom-configuring the firewall with IPTABLES. Please read through the man pages to see what fits best. Below given instructions are what I used to set up NFS within my internal network and these may very well [...]

Disclaimer
There are very many options that can be used while exporting and mounting NFS partitions as well as while custom-configuring the firewall with IPTABLES. Please read through the man pages to see what fits best. Below given instructions are what I used to set up NFS within my internal network and these may very well [...]

Disclaimer #0
Below given instructions are what I used to get BackupPC (v3.0.0) compiled/running 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 property, intellectual or otherwise.

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Why HPL?
Citing Loreto et al. of MIT, a (super) computer must solve a (random) dense system of linear equations, as prescribed by the Linpack Benchmark, to be be ranked in the Top 500 List. Linpack provides a performance measure in GFlops (billions of floating point operations per second) that can be/is used for ranking. Although [...]

During the past several months (almost seven to be precise), I have had countably infinite attempts at getting some programs to work in our research group machines — some of you have read/responded to my previous entries (recent, not so recent) and some others have helped via email. Since VASP v4.6.28 [...]

Disclaimer
Instructions given in this page are what I used to configure Fetchmail on my DELL Dimension 3000 desktop running Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4.4. These may very well be applicable to your computer, of other brand/model and/or using different Linux distribution. However, note that you are using these instructions at your very own [...]

Disclaimer
Instructions given in this page are what I used to configure my Sony Vaio VGN-S360 notebook and DELL Dimension 3000 desktop. These may very well be applicable to your computer, of other brand/model. However, note that you are using these instructions at your very own risk and this website, sgowtham.net, is not responsible for any/all [...]

This is in continuation of my previous blog entry. In that, I shared my scripts/codes to generate a decent looking, well-paginated photo gallery using PHP and MySQL. In this entry, I will focus on enhancing parts of those scripts and share the required code modification(s). For the sake of completeness, I will go over some [...]

Looking at the title, you (if you are one of those geeks or nerds) might be wondering why yet another article about stuff on which there already exists a plethora of articles. You are more than welcome to wander off and do something better with your time. However, you (even if you are not a [...]

I knew this would catch your attention - before you come out all the way to Houghton to kill me, give me a fair chance to explain: I will start out with describing the title. SIESTA is not what you generally know it as - but it’s an acronym for Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations [...]

Thanks to Ars geeks (and Kyle), I found WiFi in Holiday Inn and Kyle helped me fix a WebDAV related issue. Let me explain what this is and what this does: some of you might have accidentally/intentionally ran into this page. Until recently (as recent as 40 hours ago), I used to manually enter events [...]

This too had been on my menu for about nearly two months and finally got it done a couple days ago. Here’s what I wanted to do — my Yahoo! mail gets downloaded to /var/spool/mail/use-name and any system-mail (from root or other users) also gets appended to this. I can read this mail via Pine [...]

The day got off to a good start and I fixed the problem associated with xmms in my notebook. I had some good food and cleaned up the room, as Dave had informed that someone was coming over to take a look at the room. I then went to school to get Dr. P’s travel [...]