Recently, I had to resize about 1000’s of JPG pictures that were given to me which were HUGE in size about 10MB each pic to be converted/resized for the web. I realized that I had to use my Terminal Hackery to solve this issue. I quickly installed “imagemagick”, which can be installed in OSX by […]
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Creating a new WordPress installation in Digital Ocean
First things first, we go the the domain access admin panel, and then click on the manage dns, and then once the manage DNS has been clicked, add custom nameservers. In the custom nameservers, we will add the following : ns1.digitalocean.comns2.digitalocean.comns3.digitalocean.com Once this process is done, go to the digital ocean control panel and then […]
Some quick MySQL commands for database creation ( For WordPress & Rails )
Some systems like Ubuntu, mysql is using by default the UNIX auth_socket plugin. Basically means that: db_users using it, will be “auth” by the system user credentias. You can see if your root user is set up like this by doing the following: As you can see in the query, the root user is using the auth_socket plugin There are 2 ways to solve this: […]
Generating a QR code and overlaying it in another image file in Rails
So recently I was given the task of creating a Ticketing system for a music festival and I had to create a system in which I would be able to generate a list of tickets ( which is basically a predesigned JPG image with an area which has been left out for the QR code […]
Manali – The journey to inner peace.
Recently I got the chance to travel to the lovely place of Manali, Himachal with my three closest buddies and what I felt in that period was pure bliss. The amazing and beautiful landscapes mesmerizes everyone who visits it.
This video is an amalgamation of my three days there where I tried capturing whatever I could. I hope that you enjoy this video as much as I enjoyed making it.
If you liked the video, please like, share and subscribe. It really means a lot and gives me motivation to make more such videos.
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Equipment used:
Camera: Canon 1DX Mark ii
Lens :
Canon 16-35mm f4
Sigma 24-70 f2.8
Gimbal :
Zhiyun Crane 2
Inception – HackTheBox Walkthrough.
Lets do a Nmap Scan : [ruby-2.3.0] Desktop ツ nmap -sC -sV 10.10.10.67 Starting Nmap 7.50 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-02-12 13:00 IST Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.67 Host is up (0.23s latency). Not shown: 998 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.18 ((Ubuntu)) |_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) |_http-title: Inception 3128/tcp […]
Chatterbox – HackTheBox Writeup
So first things first, lets nmap it: root@Kali:~/Documents/pentests/HTB/Chatterbox# nmap -v -T5 -p 9000-9999 -oA nmap 10.10.10.74 Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-02-14 07:30 EST Initiating Ping Scan at 07:30 Scanning 10.10.10.74 [4 ports] Completed Ping Scan at 07:30, 0.45s elapsed (1 total hosts) Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 07:30 Completed […]
The Art of Vaping. Featuring Joseph John. – Why Vape?
Hey guys, so I recently made this quick video with my brother in-law on why he Vapes while he was quietly building his E-Cigarette. After that I just asked him why he vapes and this is a short story on it.
Hope you guys like it.
Thailand 2017 Visit – The Journey Of Three Friends
I recently had the amazing experience of visiting Thailand in 2017. This is a compilation of all the amazing things that I managed to do there.
Do check it out!
Setting up react-native-maps on both iOS and Android.
React-native-maps is supposed to be easy to install? I recently tried to install the react-native-maps by AirBnb, however, try as I might, I kept on running into issues. Finally, after spending a bit of time exploring and finding out, I figured out the the way for Android and iOS. For iOS: Please follow this guide: […]