Right click menu in Gnome desktop with user entries.

2010-07-18 2 min read Fedora Linux

I, along with couple of others I think, have been looking for this for quite some time. What I wanted is that when I right click on the desktop with GNome, I should see my entries in the default menu. I did quite  some search on this but no luck. Finally today, I did it and that too in two ways.

Lets do it the Gnome way first:

Install nautilus-actions using the command

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How To Quickly Check If You’re Running A Javascript Enabled Browser

2010-07-18 4 min read Uncategorized

<a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-javascript-how-works">Javascript is an integral part of <a class="zem_slink" title="Web browser" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">web browsing and a lot of websites use Javascript for <a class="zem_slink" title="Web application" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application">web applications and functions. A question I get at AskTheAdmin.com often is how I can tell if I am using a Javascript enabled browser. I have two quick methods to tell if the browser you are using does or does not support Javascript.

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Perl Excel to create a test plan with perl — specially very

2010-07-16 2 min read Linux

Today I came across a very interesting problem. I had to write a Test Case document that had quite a huge number of test cases. The interesting part was that the Procedure and the result remained same but the name of the frame and the fields were chaning. I felt that copy/paste and modification would be a complete waste of time, so wrote this perl script quickly. Does what is expected.

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Play with vim colors.

2010-07-16 1 min read Vim Tips

In vim you can customize the colors of your terminal vim or the GUI version. If you wanted to play around with colors then you can simply put the file containing the colorscheme to directory &#8221;~/.vim/colors&#8221; and load it in vim with &#8221;colorscheme &#8221;.

That most of you would know. What I will add here is how easy it can be create it if you knew the right place to do it: Head over<a href="http://yukihiro.nakadaira.googlepages.com/vim-color.html" target="_blank"> here. No explanations needed. Anyway if you need help, leave a comment.

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Enlightment Desktop.

2010-07-16 1 min read Linux

Enlightenment window managet I just chanced upon today while browsing the list of packages in fedora repository and thought might as well try it for sometime. For sometime now I had shifted to LXDE in favour of its being light weight but was serving well to my purposes and was quite happy with its performance.

So i just installed Enlightenment:

sudo yum install enlightenment

and selected yes for downloading the dependencies to too.  This took me to a great new world of GUI. This is a really great Desktop manager. Seems to be quite okay in terms of using the CPU. The looks are completely configurable. Menus are configurable and if you dont like the default theme then there are lot to choose from at various location some of which I have mentioned in below.

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vi reference links

2010-07-16 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

<a href="http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html">http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html
<a href="http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/">http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/
<a href="http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html">http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html
<a href="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands">http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands

Upload a video to youtube

2010-07-16 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/JXJj-wy4keA/upload-a-video-to-youtube">Upload a video to youtube

$ google youtube post –title "My Video" –category Education ~/myvideo.avi <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google just released a new commend line tool offering all sorts of new services from the commend line. One of them is uploading a <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000982f58" title="YouTube" rel="homepage" href="http://www.youtube.com/">youtube video but there are plenty more google services to interact with.

<a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000054c6a" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">Download it here: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/">http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

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