Transfer all the google feed URLs to rss2email.

Next step in restoring my settings was to get the working rules and all the blogs into rss2email. I have subscribed to more than 150 blogs. So, adding all of them manually was difficult.

For a time like this, I subscribe to all the blogs using google reader and then add them to rss2email. So I had quickly exported the google feeds list and then had to find a way to extract the URLs for the blog to the rss2email. The command to add a url is r2e add, so I wrote this one line just now to do the task for me.

bash script to periodically change the cursor theme.

#!/bin/bash
[[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && (
cd ~/.icons
cont=”y”
echo ”Select one of the icon themes”
echo ”When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c”
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] && (
echo ”Now trying …. : $i”
gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme ”$i”
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme ”$2”

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top - looks better and is more useful with a rc file...

top is a very useful command to find out who is eating up the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit">CPU or the memory. But sometimes the plain and simple look simply would be boring so how about some fun. Copy the below code to file : ~/.toprc

RCfile for &#8221;top&#8221;
Id:a, Mode_altscr=1, Mode_irixps=0, Delay_time=5.000, Curwin=0
Def    fieldscur=mfcAbdEgHIursOpQTvyzWjKNLX
winflags=32184, sortindx=10, maxtasks=0
summclr=4, msgsclr=5, headclr=5, taskclr=4
Job    fieldscur=ABcefgjlrstuvyzMKNHIWOPQDX
winflags=62777, sortindx=0, maxtasks=0
summclr=6, msgsclr=6, headclr=7, taskclr=6
Mem    fieldscur=ANOPQRSTUVbcdefgjlmyzWHIKX
winflags=62777, sortindx=13, maxtasks=0
summclr=5, msgsclr=5, headclr=4, taskclr=5
Usr    fieldscur=ABDECGfhijlopqrstuvyzMKNWX
winflags=62777, sortindx=4, maxtasks=0
summclr=3, msgsclr=3, headclr=2, taskclr=3

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Solved -- Errors with afraid-dyndns in Goddard (Fedora 13)

Since I updated to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 13, I was getting error from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dynamic_dns" title="Dynamic DNS" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS">Dynamic DNS client for afraid. I was not getting enough time to fix this, so finally I decided to fix this in the night itself 🙂

Problem:
On running

afraid-dyndns

I was getting the error:

Entity: line 100: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/parsing" title="Parsing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing">parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 99 and div

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xterm – select font name and size from command line and set it as default

I have been very busy last week and specially yesterday with 20 hours of continueous work, but managed to get this working :).

When you right click on Xterm with Ctrl pressed, there pops up a menu for selecting the size of the font. I have always wondered how to set this as default font and/or use this from the command line. So I searched my old homedir and looked for few of the docs that I had to get the information. Here is what I found.

Find out why a program can't seem to access to a file

$ strace php tias.php -e open,access 2>&1 | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia">grep foo.txt Sometimes a program refuses to read a file and you&#8217;re not sure why. You may have display_errors turned off for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/php" href="http://www.php.net/" title="PHP" rel="homepage">PHP or something. In this example, fopen(&#8217;/var/www/test/foo.txt&#8217;) was called but doesn&#8217;t have read access to foo.txt.

Strace can tell you what went wrong. E.g., if php doesn&#8217;t have read access to the file, strace will say &#8221;EACCESS (Permission denied)&#8221;. Or, if the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000220ffa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29" title="Path (computing)" rel="wikipedia">file path you gave doesn&#8217;t exist, strace will say &#8221;ENOENT (No such file or directory)&#8221;, etc.

Download youtube video directly from the command line with youtube-dl

If you keep searching for applications to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uploading_and_downloading" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">download the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/youtube" title="YouTube" rel="homepage" href="http://www.youtube.com/">youtube videos or you keep searching for the firefox addons to download the embedded the video, then this is for you. Ofcouse that is the case, only if you do not want to copy it after you have watched it in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/web_browser" title="Web browser" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">browser :). If you have already watched it then you can copy it from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mozilla_firefox" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox cache. I will post on that later for now lets see youtube-dl.