Native Kannada on Macintosh

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 far – in my opinion), put almost all my worries were put to rest – at least with regard to producing elegant looking (non-web) documents. However, native typesetting for web platforms as well as reading such documents in Firefox was far from satisfactory.

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BASH – Sum of All File/Folder Sizes

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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.com, nor its author is responsible for any/all damage – intellectual or otherwise.

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Backing Up And Restoring MySQL Databases

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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 site, sgowtham.com, nor its author is responsible for any/all damage – intellectual or otherwise.

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