Linux
Linux command to repeat a string n times - Super User
2010/07/20
I was working on something and needed to output the string n times. I have required this even to print a line with ’-’ or ’=’ but this time I badly wanted it in …
Try a live Distro without burning on CD or running in VM
2010/07/18
I keep trying a lot of distributions and mostly I try them once and get the configurations and put them on my box :), this works best for me so that I dont have to keep re-configuring my system again …
Beldi – The way to go to try linux distributions.
2010/07/18
I know people in the Linux world always want to try different distributions, but problem is maintaining them and tracking them, so what is the solution? Found a nice solution called <a …
Right click menu in Gnome desktop with user entries.
2010/07/18
I, along with couple of others I think, have been looking for this for quite some time. What I wanted is that when I right click on the desktop with GNome, I should see my entries in the default menu. …
Perl Excel to create a test plan with perl — specially very
2010/07/16
Today I came across a very interesting problem. I had to write a Test Case document that had quite a huge number of test cases. The interesting part was that the Procedure and the result remained same …
Enlightment Desktop.
2010/07/16
Enlightenment window managet I just chanced upon today while browsing the list of packages in fedora repository and thought might as well try it for sometime. For sometime now I had shifted to LXDE in …
vi reference links
2010/07/16
<a href="http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html">http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html <a …
Upload a video to youtube
2010/07/16
$ google youtube post –title "My Video" –category Education ~/myvideo.avi <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" …
Hotmail login from Linux machine using Firefox.
2010/07/15
Today I learnt two things. One is that Hotmail has changed the look of the email on the web. Quite good change. Looks good. Second is that when loggin in to the hotmail using my Fedora box with …
New GNOME 2.24 is an incremental improvement
2010/07/15
<a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/149081">Link Quite good details on the new improvements.. Currently I am installing empathy which looks quite interesting. Screenshot for empathy …
concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs
2010/07/15
$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001abd9" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" …
Gnome Icons, themes and window decorator.
2010/07/14
Yesterday, I had tried fusion theme, but that did not work our that good for me. Reasons multifold: […] So I went back to my GNome but wanted to change the looks so searched enough today to get …