Battery performance improvement with powertop and using xidel.

2012-12-24 1 min read Fedora Linux
For those of you, who have not heard about powertop, it is a tool to monitor the power consumption on your system. It has a tab which shows the tuneable parameters. Doing the changes suggested in those would improve the life to quite an extent. Here is the description of powertop: PowerTOP is a tool that finds the software component(s) that makeyour computer use more power than necessary while it is idle. Continue reading

xmlwf – Is your xml document well formed?

2012-02-18 1 min read bash
There is a small nifty utility called xmlwf that can check your xml documents to see if they are well formed. sudo yum install expat Once installed, simply use : xmlwf Need more details, just check the man page 🙂 Related articles Assigning ID to Objects transmitted in XML document (stackoverflow.com) removing characters from php output in xml (stackoverflow.com) C# XML parsing using XElement and child contents (stackoverflow.com)

bash math

2011-01-29 1 min read Uncategorized
some quick links : http://mainstreetanswers.org/bash/math.php http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/mathc.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/mathc.html Related articles W3C Announces MathML 3, New Standards for Math on the Web (readwriteweb.com) Find all the missing paths in the PATH variable in bash script (amit-agarwal.co.in) Nice site for Math related games and resources… (greenbananablog.org) bash 4.0 – new feature mapfile (amit-agarwal.co.in)

Solved -- Errors with afraid-dyndns in Goddard (Fedora 13)

2010-05-06 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux
Since I updated to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 13, I was getting error from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dynamic_dns" title="Dynamic DNS" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS">Dynamic DNS client for afraid. I was not getting enough time to fix this, so finally I decided to fix this in the night itself 🙂 Problem: On running afraid-dyndns I was getting the error: Entity: line 100: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/parsing" title="Parsing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing">parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 99 and div Continue reading