N900 and skype support

I was trying to add my skype account on the N900 today and could not add the account. I did not find any option to add the same. After some googling and searching, I found that I need to re-flash my N900.

Some pictures/photos from Dubai Zoo

Here are some of the pics that I took in Dubai Zoo. The challenge in this was to get the correct Focus to make sure that the bars of the cage in the zoo does not come in the snaps.

Putting the camera in the manual mode helps but then you can always focus on something in far distance and then try to focus on your subject and it might help, if not go for manual focus…

Ultralight DIY distribution

Tiny Core: Ultralight DIY distribution

When reviewing a lightweight distribution, the term Swiss Army knife is sometimes employed to indicate that it’s packed with features despite a diminutive size. However, at 11MB for the ISO, Tiny Core is more of a blank-slate distribution, as when booted from a CDROM or a USB stick, it presents the user with a simple desktop consisting merely of a task launcher and a package manager. It contains some good ideas and it’s already perfectly usable, but I think it needs a few more refinements in order to become great. more»

Calender for the month of November – free.

Here is the calendar for the month of November that you can use as wallpaper.

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Introduction to the Command Line (Second Edition) — Free Ebook Download

Pretty good book for beginners on command line whether you work on Ubuntu, Fedora, BSD or any other version.

http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/introduction-to-the-command-line-%28second-edition%29/12665426

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Hard and Software requirements… can you beat this.

The other day, I was looking at OTRS Documentation and guess what, I found a requirement that I could not full-fill.  The requirement was for “Hard and Software”.

Can you full-fill this requirement?

bash – echo command with option to display the output on the same line.

Here is a nice little trick to display the output in the same line :

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The trick here is simple, first we disable the <a class="zem_slink" title="Newline" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline">newline printed by <a class="zem_slink" title="Echo (command)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%28command%29">echo command with the &#8221;-n&#8221; option and then we enable the interpretation of the <a class="zem_slink" title="Backslash" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash">backslash characters with the &#8221;-e&#8221; option. As the &#8221;\r&#8221; is used as <a class="zem_slink" title="Carriage return" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_return">carriage return which brings you to the start of the line without the newline (like in <a class="zem_slink" title="Typewriter" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter">typewriter), we will use the same to get the desired effect. So, if you wanted a stopwatch for a 100 seconds on the console then this simple bash <a class="zem_slink" title="For loop" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_loop">for loop would do the same: