Mohali Maahol!!!! KRICKET Diplomacy comes of AGE!!!!

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Mohali Maahol+ACEAIQAhACE KRICKET Diplomacy comes of AGE+ACEAIQAhACE Eleven flannelled fools chasing a red ball, with eleven thousand fools cheering them.

Bernard Shaw

This Englishman would have turned aback in his grave+ACEAIQAh By George+ACEAIQAhACE Had he glimpsed the current fervour and crescendo the game has attained. The World Cup which began in an almost staid and lacklustre manner (the Opening Ceremony was quite a damp squib, my thoughts) +IBM slowly but surely reached a state of frenzy with each win for India.

Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832

Slackware released the next version a few days back and guess the complete name : Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832. You must be crazy to tell the complete version to anyone.

Development Release: Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832 More fun with Slackware’s version numbers as Patrick Volkerding announces the latest release candidate for the upcoming Slackware Linux 13.37: +ACI-There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release candidate: Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716. Very close now+ACE But we’ll likely hold out for….

sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.

I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory.

To install:

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and the details of the package:

Name        : sakura

Arch : i686

Version     : 2.3.8

Release     : 1.fc14

Size        : 137 k

Repo        : installed

From repo   : fedora

Summary     : Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE

URL : http://pleyades.net/david/sakura.php

License     : GPLv2

Description : Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It’s a terminal emulator

with few dependencies, so you don’t need a full GNOME desktop installed to

have a decent terminal emulator.

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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 :