Linux command to repeat a string n times
2010/06/17
There are more than one situation where you wished that there was a simple way to print a character n number of times. At least I face that quite often, especially when you want to print a menu. I …
Change pidgin status from the command line
2010/06/16
$ purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=AFK" Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn’t aware of purple-remote existence. […] <a …
Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages
2010/06/16
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages Tech Source From Bohol: ”Most of …
wmctrl – window control manager
2010/06/16
What is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wmctrl" title="Wmctrl" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmctrl">wmctrl? wmctrl is a command that …
Periodically download and use as wallpaper from Flickr in Fedora using Webilder.
2010/06/16
Ever wanted to have wallpaper downloaded from Flickr directly using the tags and then apply them as wallpaper, then the way to go is download Webilder <a …
17 Cool firefox tweaks.
2010/06/16
A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro’s. <a …
List of commands you use most often
2010/06/16
$ history | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk …
How To Add A Cool Tattoo To Your Photo in Photoshop
2010/06/15
We’re lucky to be Photoshop friendly, unlike <a class="zem_slink" title="Lil Wayne" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1211443/">Lil Wayne (I’d …
using kill to see if a process is alive
2010/06/15
I am making some changes to the moreutils sponge command. Sponge provides a method of prepending which is less specialized than my prepend util. However, it has trouble with large amounts of input. …
GCompris — Kids games and learning activities and hacks.
2010/06/15
I found a nice game and learning software for Kids yesterday. It is called <a href="http://gcompris.net/" target="_blank">GCompris. Details of the software as in their …
IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only
2010/06/15
The other day, I was trying to fix something in my firefox and found that the way to go was to login to IRC and go to the mozilla <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" …
Google Profiles Turn Into OpenIDs
2010/06/14
As part of its push to go more social, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" …