RPMFusion release for YUM.

2009-10-17 1 min read Fedora

For people who have used yum on Fedora, you must have seen that couple of packages that you require are on Livna and couple of them on DAG and some others on FreshRPMs and Dribble. And for those of you, who have tried to install the packages from all these repositories, I know it is difficult. The repo’s never worked too well together.

So finallly there is a nice solution to all these problems, <a href="http://rpmfusion.org/" target="_blank">RPMFusion is the solution. This is a effort to merge the repo in all the four above mentioned repo. just now installed the repo and am updating my system and definately hope to get a lot lesser problems now. 🙂

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10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side

2009-10-17 5 min read Uncategorized

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side Thankfully, the web doesn’t make us take sides. We can have the best of every world. With the launch of Bing, we had another search engine to crawl the web with. A few months and millions of searches down the line, Bing has also built up its legion of users (and fans). It’s Google vs Bing now. The former is still The search engine while the latter calls itself a decision engine.

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Twitter is overcapacity.

2009-10-15 1 min read Uncategorized

Just now got this on twitter. Nice image to display when overcapacity.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Over_capacity_1255572830327.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1326" title="Over_capacity" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Over_capacity_1255572830327-150x150.jpg" alt="Over_capacity" width="150" height="150" />

Adding dates to your photos.

2009-10-12 1 min read Linux Photo
Add date in the photograph with a perl script.

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ($#ARGV < 0 )
{
print &#8221;$#ARGV \n&#8221;;
print &#8221;Usage $ARGV[0] filename/dir\n&#8221;;
exit -1;
}

@files = `find &#8221;$ARGV[0]&#8221; -iname &#8221;*jpg&#8221; -print`;

if ($#ARGV > 3 ) { $cmd = 1;}
$count = 1;
foreach $file (@files) {
chomp ($file);

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Stop long commands wrapping around and over-writing itself in the Bash shell

2009-10-12 1 min read Bash

Stop long commands wrapping around and over-writing itself in the Bash shell

shopt -s checkwinsize

add the command either in /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile so that this is available to your shell.

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by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)

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Diwali lighiying with cheap ping-pong balls.

2009-10-11 2 min read Uncategorized

If you need some cheap and novel ambient lighting for your next party, you&#8217;re only a box of ping-pong balls and a string of lights away from solving your lighting worries.

Instructables user AdvancedMischief needed some novel lighting and was impressed with the diffusing power of the simple ping-pong ball:

At some point last semester I realized that ping pong balls make great diffusers and look really cool when they are glowing. Next we concluded that a hundred glowing ping pong balls would look even cooler. It was at about this point I decided that my apartment was in dire need of some ping pong ball lights.

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