Google staff dropping Windows for Macs, Linux PCs

2010-06-02 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

For those who keep saying this is not the year of linux and probably it will never be 🙂

Google is abandoning the use of Windows by its staff as it\’s too much of a security threat, multiple staffers said Monday night. Recent concerns about Chinese hacks have the search firm requiring either a Mac or Linux for all new recruits to provide better security. Those who want Windows now often require explicit approval from executives and may not have any choice on desktops where it\’s only an option for notebooks.

[link to original | source: LXer Linux News

Google said to be moving away from Windows internally, Mac and Linux systems on tap instead (engadget.com)
Google revamps new employee computer policy; Windows now out of the equation (edibleapple.com)
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is (techcrunch.com)

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Key bindings for screen command

2010-06-01 3 min read Linux

Key bindings

screen commands consist of a command character (Ctrl-a by default) followed by another character. For many of the commands, you can also specify the character as Ctrl-character–e.g., Ctrl-a Ctrl-d as well as Ctrl-a d. The default key bindings are listed here. You can change the bindings for yourself in the $HOME/.screenrc configuration file, or for all users in /etc/screenrc. The term in parentheses that follows the description is the equivalent configuration-file command for changing the key binding.

gdialog on F11 – Leonidas

2010-06-01 1 min read Fedora

If you are using some old application or want to install some application that was developed quite some time back with GTK GUI, then you may find the application using gdialog. gdialog is no more available and is deprecated in Fedora and same functionality is provided by zenity. But the options to call zenity are slightly different so what do you do. I did a google search and found the following script. The credit of script is not mine and credit goes to ”Mike Newman mikegtn@gnome.org”

Deleting lines from the text file

2010-06-01 1 min read Linux

Really useful for pretty big <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_file" title="Computer file" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file">files.

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sed" title="Sed" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed">sed –silent ’1,100 d’ <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/filename" title="Filename" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename">filename

here the command will delete the first 100 lines. You can specify whatever range you want. This will not delete the lines from the file but only display the contents on the console after deleting the 100 lines from begining.

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Google\’s RE2 regular expression library

2010-05-30 0 min read Bash

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cairo-dock themes on server – download to local machine.

2010-05-30 1 min read Linux

I was trying to get all the cairo-themes locally. One because sometimes the internet connection is slow and second for the fun of it. So I did the first thing that can be done, to search the internet and find out how to do it. Could not find anything in the results and thus started to search how to to it. And here it is finally:

Get the list of themes <a href="http://themes.cairo-dock.org/liste.txt" target="_blank">here. Once this is done, simply go to http://themes.cairo-dock.org/ and download the file. Once this is done you can untar it to /usr/share/cairo-dock/themes and you are done.

Busy

2010-05-30 1 min read Uncategorized

I am busy finding a good photo to submit on one of the photography contest. Once I have finalized the Photo, will post the details and the photos here :). Probably tomorrow. Till then so long.