Virtualbox guest additions in Debian Debian 7 wheezy has virtualbox guest additions inbuilt. So after installing debian on virtualbox the guest addition features are immediately available. However the guest additions bundled with debian is general of older version compared to the latest virtualbox version. So its a good idea to install the latest virtualbox guest… Read More »
Step by step instructions to install virtualbox guest additions on Fedora 18 Linux.
Nginx Recently I was setting up nginx on my new server where this blog is being hosted. Nginx is very different from the more popular apache web server in many ways. It has an event driven architecture which makes it much faster and high traffic tolerant compared to apache. In apache the redirects used to… Read More »
SSL certificates Some websites, specially restricted ones might require you to use a client side ssl certificate to open the pages. The certificate is used as an authentication factor, in place of username/password. When opening such websites in browsers, the browser must provide the ssl certificate. Over here we shall see how to do that… Read More »
Many applications do not directly support the use of socks proxy. It is not possible to configure them in anyway to use a proxy server. Torsocks enables such applications to use the Tor Socks proxy. It automatically routes all network requests made by a certain application through the Tor proxy. The manual page defines Torsocks… Read More »
Fedora can be easily installed on virtualbox if you want to try it out without doing a real install to your hard drive. In this tutorial we are going to do that. Since we shall be using 64bit fedora, virtualbox would need to have the VT-x/AMD-V virtualisation feature in bios. These are the virtualisation extension… Read More »
Wired Network Lets say you have an existing wired network setup at your workstation or home somewhat like this Adsl Modem/Router (192.168.1.1) => Switch => Multiple Pcs (192.168.1.10, 192.168.1.20 …) Now you want to add a wireless access point to this existing wired network so that you can connect to the internet wirelessly from your… Read More »
Cost per click is the amount google pays for a particular click that was generated on an ad on your website. This is not constant and can vary a lot depending on various factors. It can be as low as $0.01 (which is not uncommon) and be as high as $20 (it can be even… Read More »
Smart pricing is considered to be one of the main reasons why google adsense might be giving low cpc to ad clicks on a website. When I came to know about it, I tried to gather information on what it is and how exactly does it work. Does it work on per-site basis or effects… Read More »
Adsense Cpc Cpc or cost per click is the amount of money you are paid for each click that occurs on the adsense ads. Higher the cpc higher the earning per click. So publishers are always looking for ways to increase their cpc. So what does cpc depend on. Simply put, it depends on the… Read More »