How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog

2010-06-08 0 min read Linux

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" title="Technology" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/industry/Technology">technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000000141ab" title="Education" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education">education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a critical point beyond which I really couldn’t get the traffic to grow. The site was frankly far too general to appeal to a specific community.

vim – get names of the scripts and the details from the command line

2010-05-19 1 min read Learning Linux Vim Tips

For the below commands either you can set the two variables in bold and then run the scripts or change the following in the commands and run the scripts.

If you have html2text installed then you can use this:

wget -o /dev/null -O $script_id_file ’http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=’$script_id |html2text

If you dont have html2text installed then you can use:

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core dump checking script.

I was testing a program which crashing every now and then. It is very difficult in such scenarios to keep looking for the <a class="zem_slink" title="Core dump" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump">core file or keep checking for the running process. So I wrote this simple script that can check for core file in the particular path and keep running until it finds one. You can hack this script to send a mail once the core is found. This is a very simple script. And this should work on solaris too..

10 Keyboard Techniques To Create Cool Symbols

2010-04-03 3 min read Linux

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Thumbnail3.png" alt="Thumbnail" align="bottom" />All of us use the keyboard to create symbols daily. Look at the thumbnail. That’s a simple symbol created with just four keys.

Symbols existed even before the alphabets. Over the years they have been part of folklore, myths and legends. Some have stayed on as indelible marks. Some, like the swastika, are better forgotten. Symbols have remained potent. If you doubt their visual power, then look no further than logos. People shell out millions for a three-pointed star on a sleek hood or a prancing horse. Puzzled? The first one is the Mercedes logo and the latter is Ferrari’s.

[Movie Review]RANN- predictable from Puttu

2010-03-14 3 min read Uncategorized

IdealisticHarshvardhan mallik( B) and his son Jay(<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudeep" title="Sudeep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeep">Sudeep), find their channel loosing out on popularity ratings for a rival channel smartly run by his X-employee <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mohnish_behl" title="Mohnish Behl" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046894/">Mohnish Behl. Jay is provoked and hence in an attempt to rebuild and regain the foothold,he plans a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sting_operation" title="Sting operation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_operation">sting operationwith aspiring PM **Manoj Pandey**(<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/paresh_rawal" title="Paresh Rawal" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712546/">Paresh Rawal) and his Co-Bro industrialistRajat Kapoor. Everybody gets their share,but end up gobbling the truth. How is that revealed and what are theirrepurcussions forms the rest.