There is a nice article <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4491" target="_blank">here b<span class="byline">by Alastair Otter. He has given links to …

And sometimes there are software you find irksome and think things could have been better. In any case, I always like to try out a few alternative software choices before I settle with any particular …

Last few days I was quite busy. So this time very quick tip 🙂 Add the following to the ~/.vimrc file imap dt :r! dateA And now whenever you type dt in the insert mode in vi, date will be inserted.

I was looking at a log file and needed to highlight multiple search items to make the logs more readable. I got into multiple threads suggesting various cryptic vim commands but I was in no mood to …

if you want to open any document with the default document handler from the bash prompt or command prompt in linux then the simplest way to do that is use &#8221;xdg-open&#8221;. This can also …

for i in * do mogrify $i -resize 640×480 i done

This is an article from the Citibank customers in US. The Consumerist: &#8221;Citibank won&#8217;t let customers using Linux computers log in to their online accounts. Adam argues that in 2009 …

A simple example of the .netrc file. Keep this file in your homedir and then chmod to 600. […] machine skyware login raj password ******** macdef init ls -lRt […] macdef hello bye

Today I found an interesting piece of information. I was trying to debug a problem with the cups service and found that cups offers a web administration.brbrThe server is running at port 631. So point …

I found quite a lot of good information today morning. Some really good info on vi/vim. I liked the this one:&#8221;Also, you don&#8217;t have to use the / command as a separator. Anything …

#!/usr/bin/perl if ($#ARGV < 0 ) { print &#8221;$#ARGV \n&#8221;; print &#8221;Usage $ARGV[0] filename/dir\n&#8221;; exit -1; } @files = `find &#8221;$ARGV[0]&#8221; -iname …

A lot of times there is a need to log all the messages and the output of the shell to the file or syslog. Sometimes I need that for some user too. script command can be used to do this but then …