Windows Vs Linux – One more time

One of the most written and commented articles has to be Linux vs Windows (of course there are competitors like vim vs emacs) but none has been covered so much as Linux vs Windows. So, what am I going to write here which is not covered earlier in so many other posts. Well a little different perspective 🙂

gnome-terminal color schemes.

I was looking for a way to set the terminal colors for gnome. There is a GUI way to change the same by going to the Preferences->Colors. And then you can change the colors that you see in the color pallete in the bottom of the dialog box.

But I was looking at doing it faster and better, and finally I found this page.

what is vim in 6Kb..

If you thought that vim is very bloated and nothing abuot this editor can be small, then you are not alone. I was myself in the same bandwagon.

Well, I never thought that there could be anything about vim that can be explained in Kb’s, lest alone the complete vim features. But looks like vim.org had thought about this and thus came up with this. And here is the direct link to the vim in 6kb in English.

Empty a file

This one is for those who know the “touch” command. Hope all of us do not follow a  command just because it is on one of the popular site without trying to understand the command and the output.

Typing the current date automaticly in any application with a key binding.

$ xvkbd -xsendevent -text $(date +%Y%m%d) I don&#8217;t want to waste time to all the time type the current date. I have set this snippet in my kde shortcuts with meta+l. All the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/window_manager" title="Window manager" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager">window managers have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/keyboard_shortcut" title="Keyboard shortcut" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_shortcut">key-bindings AFAIK. That works in all softs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/command_line_interface" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">CLI or <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface">GUI…

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