Akshay Jain

Matrix On Windows : Must watch!

Akshay Jain — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:22:57 +0000

Heya. I know I have not been active and havent posted much here for a long time. So, here is a super awesome video for everyone! (Link)

Using Opera on Dual-Boot with Linux and Windows

Akshay Jain — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:58:02 +0000

As my readers must knowing that I am a avid fan of Opera and recently the latest version 9.6 was launched. You can check out my basic benchmarking test between Firefox and Opera browsers to compare their performance and memory usage. Anyways, I was trying to find out a way to somehow get to use Opera [...]

PHP backlink checker script

Akshay Jain — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:30:50 +0000

This is probably the simplest script that anyone knowing (or even learning) PHP can create in about 15seconds. But I will still post it here just in case anyone is a total noob at PHP. Purpose of this script: To check a certain given backlink on hundreds of webpages provided you know the URL of every [...]

Sergey Brin’s Blog

Akshay Jain — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:25:58 +0000

Update: Here is the blog URL which I forgot to mention : Too.Blogspot.com Sergey Brin (the founder partner of Google and a deca-billionaire) has started a blog recently. There are some important things that I would like to note about the same. This is a very personal blog as Sergey has discussed his personal life [...]

Arrange Posts in ascending order Wordpress

Akshay Jain — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:23:15 +0000

Recently, I was creating one website in which there were loads of database entries which I needed to integrate into Wordpress Blogging system as it is really flexible. But the default option of Wordpress is that it always shows all the posts in reverse chronological order but I wanted to change posts order so that the [...]

Donate Blood India - Help someone in Need

Akshay Jain — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:34:38 +0000

Hi Firstly, I would like to mention that this blog post is in no way related to technology. But, I want to still blog about it because I feel this is a very important humanitarian duty which every human being must fulfill and especially the youngsters. For those who are scared to donate blood and think that [...]

Google Chrome (Beta) review

Akshay Jain — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:05:30 +0000

Like everyone, I immediately downloaded the new Google Chrome browser that is supposed to have been released today and frankly, I am pretty excited about it as this will completely change and modify the browser wars that have been prevailing between Microsoft’s Internet explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox (and to some extent Opera also ;)) Firstly, I [...]

Google Campus Ambassador (India) 2008-09

Akshay Jain — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:45:25 +0000

It gives me great pleasure to announce to my readers that I have been selected as the Google Ambassador for my college for the year 2008-09. This is under the Google Ambassador Programme which was started last year in India and this is the second year for this programme. As a Google Ambassador, my work [...]

[Hack] Unable to change priority in Task Manager

Akshay Jain — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:31:48 +0000

This is for those who want to change the priority or processor affinity of some process through Task Manager but they get an error message saying The operation could not be completed. Access is denied This problem generally arises because some processes are run by the system and therefore Windows does not allow a “User” to change [...]

PhpMyAdmin: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded - Fix

Akshay Jain — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:17:25 +0000

So, I was importing a large database via PHPmyadmin to my server and as expected I got the irritating message ‘Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded’ At first this seems like a Apache or a PHP timeout error, so I opened my httpd.config and php.ini files and increased the values for script timeouts, but [...]