Whats Orange And Sounds Like A Parrot?

2010-04-01 1 min read Linux

Could not resist posting this 🙂

What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?

A carrot!

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GNOME 2.28 released

2010-04-01 1 min read Linux

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GNOME 2.28 is released now, just a week after the release of the release candidate. This release includes several bugfixes & enhancements for included components.

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Difference between unix and linux.

2010-04-01 1 min read Linux

Find the article <a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-3502/5971-3502.pdf">here.<div class="question"> <div style="margin: -5px 0pt 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(244, 247, 222); position: relative; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; background-position: 0px -8px;" id="question_title"> <table style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

What is the difference between Linux and Unix

There is only one reason left why Windows exists

2010-04-01 0 min read Linux
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: small;">156 minutes of pain compared with 26 minutes of success. That&#8217;s the difference between a Windows installation and a Linux installation. After two and a half hours fiddling with a Windows install on my Toshiba laptop, it became pretty obvious what is one major reason why Windows remains a viable operating system.

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using gigolo for all your network mounting needs

2010-04-01 0 min read Fedora GNOME Linux
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Have you ever thought that there should be one central location or application to connect to all you required servers with whichever <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/protocol" title="Protocol (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_%28computing%29">protocol. If you did, the you wishes are granted.

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Gnome 3.0 – the beginning of workflow era

2010-03-31 1 min read GNOME

There is  a nice article <a href="http://d0od.blogspot.com/2009/09/gnome-3-quick-visual-tour.html">here. This talks about gnome 3.0 with screenshot. Definately worth looking at. And if you want to see the plan then you can head over <a href="http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero"> here.

Detecting URLs in a Block of Text

2010-03-31 4 min read Bash

Jan Goyvaerts on <a href="http://www.regex-guru.info/2008/11/detecting-urls-in-a-block-of-text/" target="_blank">Detecting URLs in a Block of Text

In his blog post <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001181.html">The Problem with URLs points out some of the issues with trying to detect URLs in a larger body of text using a regular expression.

The short answer is that it can’t be done. Pretty much any character is valid in URLs. The very simplistic <span class="regex">\bhttp://\S+ not only fails to differentiate between punctuation that’s part of the URL, and punctuation used to quote the URL. It also fails to match URLs with spaces in them. Yes, spaces are valid in URLs, and I’ve encountered quite a few web sites that use them over the years. It also forgets other protocols, such as https.

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