HowTo: Disk space reduction on C:\ Drive [Windows 7]

Categories: Howto, Windows

I am suffering from a big time space crunch when it comes to my windows box. Unbelievable. Even a 300G disk seem insufficient! And, I am geeky enough to ensure my private stuff, work stuff & OS stuff does not reside on the same partition. Yet I get into super-duper mess! Now I am at my […]

What is hiberfil.sys and how do I delete it?

Categories: Howto, Windows

Did you also notice a giant (apparently) useless hiberfil.sys sitting in your C:\?! So did I. Well, it is nothing but “a placeholder if we choose to hibernate the system.” The geeky information here is if the user chooses to hibernate instead of sleep or shutdown then the entire RAM (at that point in time) […]

Ubuntu: How to solve a GPG Error (BADSIG)

Categories: Howto, Linux, Ubuntu

Well, well, haven’t we all faced this irritating issue where apt-gets begin to fail? I have faced it one too many times. Frustrating and mind-numbing. One of the common error is the infamous GPG Error. A “BADSIG” scenario. For instance, I faced this today: $> sudo apt-get update … … … Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Translation-en_IN […]