Blog once and educate 40,000 underprivileged children of India

2010-01-18 3 min read Uncategorized

Here’s one of the mail that I received from the IndiBlogger team.

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dear <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://www.labnol.org/about.html">Amit Agarwal,

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is a unique opportunity to reach out and impact thousands of lives through your blog. Yes, sitting at your desk and writing a <a class="zem_slink" title="blog post" rel="homepage" href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130">blog post can help educate 40,000 young Indians all over our country!

<span style="font-size: x-small;">One of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/india" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India’s most trusted and credible <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization">NGOs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/giveindia" title="GiveIndia" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveIndia">GiveIndia is taking part in a competition on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/facebook" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook to win a US$1 million grant. The winner will be the NGO that gets the highest number of votes from Facebook users. The prize of $1 million will help put or keep 40,000 children across India in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/school" title="School" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School">school for one year!

Useful link for grep

2010-01-16 1 min read Linux

<a href="http://lifehacker.com/398441/get-to-know-grep">http://lifehacker.com/398441/get-to-know-grep

whohas

2010-01-16 0 min read Linux

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Description: whohas is a command line tool that allows querying several package lists at once – currently supported are Arch, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware. whohas is written in Perl and was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from.

Example output for

Viewing log files without using vi or any other text editor

2010-01-16 1 min read Linux

This is quite useful for viewing files without opening them.. Saves quite a lot of time in viewing the logs 🙂

Want to see the first 5 lines of the /etc/passwd file? Pretty easy, just use the "head" command:

head -5 /etc/passwd

Want to see the last 20 lines of the /etc/passwd file? Again, pretty easy, just use the "tail" command:

tail -20 /etc/passwd

But what if you only want to see lines 10-15 of a given file? Neither the "head" nor the "tail" commands alone will do. Instead, use the "sed" command to print the range of lines you want to see:

View information on all the rpms installed.

2010-01-16 1 min read Fedora Linux

This post if applicable to all the distro’s which are based on rpm.

If you look at the number of rpms installed on your system, you will see it somewhere around 500-2000. Noe thats a pretty huge number. So sometimes I keep wondering what are these rpms for. Heres a command that can help you figure out what these rpms are for:

rpm -qa –info

And if you want to find info on all the files and put it in a file too:

using mypaint of linux continued.

2010-01-16 1 min read Fedora Photo

Some more screenshots here:
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Browser and OS stats on my blog

2010-01-16 0 min read Uncategorized

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I have been thinking of posting this for some time, but here are some stats from my <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website:

OS Stats :

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