Craeating a sequence in OpenOffice.org calc.

Creating a numberd list in the calc with alphabets can be really tiresome sometimes. I found a simple solution to this. Create the numbered list in vim and then paste it into Openoffice.org calc. Here’s how I do it:

Open vim

type the first in sequence (ex Amit_aga_001)

Follow the below sequence to create a macro:

Esc

[Atl]+q+(any alphabet say ’a’)  — this will start recording the macro

yy  – yank the current line

Solved -- Errors with afraid-dyndns in Goddard (Fedora 13)

Since I updated to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 13, I was getting error from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dynamic_dns" title="Dynamic DNS" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS">Dynamic DNS client for afraid. I was not getting enough time to fix this, so finally I decided to fix this in the night itself 🙂

Problem:
On running

afraid-dyndns

I was getting the error:

Entity: line 100: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/parsing" title="Parsing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing">parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 99 and div

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xterm – select font name and size from command line and set it as default

I have been very busy last week and specially yesterday with 20 hours of continueous work, but managed to get this working :).

When you right click on Xterm with Ctrl pressed, there pops up a menu for selecting the size of the font. I have always wondered how to set this as default font and/or use this from the command line. So I searched my old homedir and looked for few of the docs that I had to get the information. Here is what I found.

Find out why a program can't seem to access to a file

$ strace php tias.php -e open,access 2>&1 | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia">grep foo.txt Sometimes a program refuses to read a file and you&#8217;re not sure why. You may have display_errors turned off for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/php" href="http://www.php.net/" title="PHP" rel="homepage">PHP or something. In this example, fopen(&#8217;/var/www/test/foo.txt&#8217;) was called but doesn&#8217;t have read access to foo.txt.

Strace can tell you what went wrong. E.g., if php doesn&#8217;t have read access to the file, strace will say &#8221;EACCESS (Permission denied)&#8221;. Or, if the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000220ffa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29" title="Path (computing)" rel="wikipedia">file path you gave doesn&#8217;t exist, strace will say &#8221;ENOENT (No such file or directory)&#8221;, etc.

Linux Contractor Fired for Using Firefox/Linux

This is a complicated story but one that must be told. I&#8217;m not sure there is anything that can be done about it except rage at the moon…

But it needs to be told none the less.

Did I mention it gets complicated? It does, but it does so for a reason. Let&#8217;s introduce the starting lineup.

Download youtube video directly from the command line with youtube-dl

If you keep searching for applications 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 the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/youtube" title="YouTube" rel="homepage" href="http://www.youtube.com/">youtube videos or you keep searching for the firefox addons to download the embedded the video, then this is for you. Ofcouse that is the case, only if you do not want to copy it after you have watched it in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/web_browser" title="Web browser" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">browser :). If you have already watched it then you can copy it from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mozilla_firefox" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox cache. I will post on that later for now lets see youtube-dl.

captcha\’s implemented finally.

For last couple of time I had tried to set the captcha to avoid spam. Getting nearly 2-3 spam now everyday and is on the increasing side, so finally I worked out to put the spam control meaasure – captcha&#8217;s.

With the captcha&#8217;s in place, I have removed the moderation on the comments, but still reserver the right to remove a comment without any reason.

If you find any issues with the captcha let me know at wordpress@amit-agarwal.co.in