They own your CPU (and so so in Windows and Mac, too)

2010-05-16 1 min read Firefox Linux

Click: ”I laugh — LAUGH! — when a tech journalist writes something to the effect of, ”for lightweight tasks such as Web browsing,” when you know, and I know, that there ain’t nothing light about using present-day Web browser on present-day Web pages filled with Javascript, Flash and enough CSS to fill a book.”

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SendEmail using perl script in Windows or Linux using any SMTP account.

2010-05-16 1 min read Linux

Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/email" rel="tag">email, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/sendEmail" rel="tag">sendEmail, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Perl" rel="tag">Perl

There is a very nice little utility or rather SMTP client program called sendmail (<a href="http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/">Link — http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/).

This can be used in Windows or Linux or any other OS with perl installed and few other perl modules installed. Its quite easy to use and comes in quite handy to send emails.

In later posts we will see how we can use this in various ways : sending mail from your browser, from your editor or even from the command line or shell script.

Downloading all related videos from youtube with youtube-dl

2010-05-16 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized

How many time did you want to see all the videos (related) to the one you were watching on youtube but decided otherwise as the downloaded was not fast enough. Or has it happened to you that you wanted to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uploading_and_downloading" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">download all the related videos, in either case you can use the youtube-dl utility I blogged about some times back. First you need to get all the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uniform_resource_locator" title="Uniform Resource Locator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator">URL’s in a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/text_file" title="Text file" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file">text file, and the simplest way to do this is :

Remote X applications on local display in Fedora 11 (leonidas).

2010-05-13 1 min read Fedora

I wanted to open some X applications on my Fedora 11 local display over the ssh connections. I have used this in the previous versions of the Fedora and was looking to do the same in F11. Here are the things that can be done to enable this :

Allow tcp connections to X server by removing -nolisten in the X server. Set the following parameter in the gdm.conf

DisallowTCP=false
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6000+ truetype fonts for Linux

2010-05-13 1 min read Linux

Found a huge collection of fonts for linux. These are true type fonts and really a huge collection.

<a href="http://thelinuxbox.org/downloads/fonts/fonts.tar.gz">get here

updated: Forgot to mention that you can update the font cache without restarting the font server by executing the below command:

fc-cache -fv

Resolved - New window does not open in new tab after installation of some plugin's.

2010-05-13 2 min read Linux

After I installed some plugin’s, the new windows were not opening in the tab. Rather they were opening in new window. This consumes time and memory which I did not like. I checked and re-checked to confirm that the setting for opening new window in tab was in there and still ………. alas……..

So, I reverted to checking if I could do something in the about:config entries to do the trick and yes it was there. Before we go into the specific entry, if you are interested, here is the link to the mozilla site for documentation on the about:config parameters. If you want to tinker with the settings, I suggest you first go through the list and make sure what you are doing.

Processing XML on the Command Line

2010-05-12 1 min read Linux

<a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/processing-xml-on-the-command-line.html">The other day on the cURL email list, someone asked:
Could someone please tell me (preferably with an example) of how I could parse and xml like the following:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<file name="AMERI08.D4860.ZIP" />
<file name="DTCCRSF.D4861.ZIP" />
<file name="DTGSS01.D4862.ZIP" />
<file name="DTGSS02.D4863.ZIP" />
<file name="DTGSS03.D4864.ZIP" /

This is not appropriate for the cURL list, but I …