use finch, less memory and cpu usage, in replacement for pidgin.

Well, if you are on linux then you have options – is a known fact. But how those options help?

I was working on a machine which had very less RAM and was quite old system and it was running F14. Guess what would be the state of the system with pidgin, xmms, firefox, evolution and couple of terminals. Now, this is where if you could save a few cycles of CPU then you can actullay see the difference in sluggish GUI and and an okay sort of GUI. So, first off, kill pidgin and use finch.

using wordpress CLI to post to wordpress

There is a very nice post here: How to post content to a WordPress blog from the command line

I tried this in Fedora 14 and here is the way to get this working in Fedora

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      su -<br /> <br /> cpan<br /> <br /> install WordPress::CLI WordPress::Post
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Now, once the above completes make sure that the path /usr/local/bin is in you path.

Happy Holi to all.

Happy HOLI to all.

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Try all colors in xterm with script before setting the color

If you are looking for testing the colors on how they would look like in the xterm before you set the color then here is a small script for you.

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      #!/bin/bash -<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> #<br /> #          FILE:  xterm_colors-test.sh<br /> #<br /> #         USAGE:  ./xterm_colors-test.sh<br /> #<br /> #   DESCRIPTION:  Test all the colors for xterm bg<br /> #<br /> #       OPTIONS:  ---<br /> #  REQUIREMENTS:  ---<br /> #          BUGS:  ---<br /> #         NOTES:  ---<br /> #        AUTHOR:   Amit Agarwal (amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in), aka<br /> #       COMPANY:  Individual<br /> #       VERSION:  1.0<br /> #       CREATED:  02/18/2011 01:02:51 PM IST<br /> #      REVISION:  1.0<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> <br /> cat /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt |sed 's/\([0-9]\{1,3\}[ \t]*\)\{3\}//'|sed 's/^ *//' >~/rgb.txt<br /> while read line<br /> do<br /> bg=$(echo $line)<br /> echo $line<br /> echo "Trying $bg color"<br /> xterm -bg "$bg"&<br /> sleep 5<br /> kill -9 $!<br /> done < ~/rgb.txt
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This can be used in various ways but I will leave the choice to you. One option that I should probably still tell is :

what is vim in 6Kb..

If you thought that vim is very bloated and nothing abuot this editor can be small, then you are not alone. I was myself in the same bandwagon.

Well, I never thought that there could be anything about vim that can be explained in Kb’s, lest alone the complete vim features. But looks like vim.org had thought about this and thus came up with this. And here is the direct link to the vim in 6kb in English.

cd across parallel directories

Here is a simple and fast way to cd across parallel directory.

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All in one solution for all the scripts of vim from vim.org

For quite sometime now, I was looking for some console based program which would help me get the scripts from vim.org. A simple solution would have been to do a wget for the scripts. But since there are so many scripts coming up daily and with a need to search based on script ID and name of the script, I thought better to write a script that can do all of those things. Now, what was required was that the script should be either able to download this or add to the GLVS script. Also note that, I had done something similar in the past here. There are some additions in the below script. You can download a copy of the script get_vim_scripts. Or you can copy the script from below: