log analysis with perl and wireshark decode.

Here is something that I had to do in couple of hours to check the logs. The problem was the log file was printing the Received and Sent message in the hex format. I had to verify if the messages were correct. So here is how to do it.

open(FP, &#8221;<$ARGV[0]&#8221;)|| die &#8221;File $ARGV[0] does not exist&#8221;;
while ($line = )
{

if ($line =~ /(Received :)|(Sending :)/)

{

@words = split(/\|/, $words[4]);
$received = $words[1];

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Bugzilla Automation with perl — add, update or query any bug in Bugzilla using perl and www series modules for perl.

Today I was trying to do some queries and see if I could create a new bug or update a existing bug in the Bugzilla. The one that I was trying to access was on version 2.0 and not on 3.0. This being the case, the XMLRPC interface was not working properly and to top it all, I was wanted to query quite a lot of bugs. So, I went out to evaluate how to avoid the manual work and get this done faster. Here&#8217;s some of my findings:

Prachi – My daughter

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bash script to change vim colorscheme based on the available themes

Here&#8217;s one script that you may find useful. A little variation or wrapper for this script can make your life colorful 🙂

You can write a wrapper to this to take one of the inputs randomly and then use it in alias to start <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim.

Quick update on speeding up X windows with gnome look.

I have tried various options and now I am trying one more option. The option is to use the LXDE desktop. The LXDE desktop is a lightweight X Desktop. The look and feel are quite similar to the Gnome desktop with the added advantage of LXDE being very light.

It really light and low on CPU and memory usage so even if you have a High end Desktop but lot of applications running then really worth giving it a try and if you have a low end machine then definitely you should use LXDE.

Microsoft Updates Linux Code

Microsoft releases enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community in 2009.

Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to

<a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Microsoft-Updates-Linux-Code-741438/?kc=EWKNLLIN04062010STR1" target="_blank">Read more.

wine-doors – door to wine with applications like photoshop and lots of windows games.

wine is the project to natively support the Windows application on the Linux platform. But people who have tried to use it know that there are lot of dependencies on the Windows programs which cannot be resolved so easily :). There is a project called <a href="http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">wine-doors. Here is the screen shot of wine-doors. When you start wine doors for the first time, the application will install the necessary dependency and not only that when you are installing any of the other applications then too it will install all the other required dependencies and its like working with windows without affecting the stability of your OS 🙂