Linux
using kill to see if a process is alive
2010/06/15
I am making some changes to the moreutils sponge command. Sponge provides a method of prepending which is less specialized than my prepend util. However, it has trouble with large amounts of input. …
GCompris — Kids games and learning activities and hacks.
2010/06/15
I found a nice game and learning software for Kids yesterday. It is called <a href="http://gcompris.net/" target="_blank">GCompris. Details of the software as in their …
IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only
2010/06/15
The other day, I was trying to fix something in my firefox and found that the way to go was to login to IRC and go to the mozilla <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" …
Google Profiles Turn Into OpenIDs
2010/06/14
As part of its push to go more social, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" …
email with templates (with variables) from the command line with sendmail or any other MTA.
2010/06/09
I was trying to get templates to work on evolution and found that although templates are there in evolution mail client, its not that efficient to use. What I thus wanted was to have something that …
Default files and settings for new users on most Linux distribution – Linux Ubuntu
2010/06/09
For most common distributions of Linux the default settings for the newly created user with GUI or useradd command is taken from the directory /etc/skel All the files (including the hidden files) are …
http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows
2010/06/09
<a href="http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows" target="_blank">Here’s a nice article on Windows vs Linux. I have been reading on these …
using mypaint on Linux
2010/06/09
Here is description of mypaint. […] Mypaint is a fast and easy/simple painter app focused on the painter, so you can only focus on the art and not the program itself. Currently MyPaint does not …
Scripts to create logins from bash command – for creating multiple accounts
2010/06/09
Heres the script: […] cat «EOF > login.sh for i in `cat logins` ; do login=`echo ”$i”|awk -F”:” '{print $2}’`; …
Browser or User agent identification with php.
2010/06/09
<a href="http://apptools.com/phptools/browser/source.php">Link This is a link to very nice code to identify the browser used by the user. I have put a test program with this <a …
How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog
2010/06/08
A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps. In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003ac3a" …
Determine what process is listening on a port on Solaris, without lsof
2010/06/08
$ for x in `ptree | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{print …