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Trying out Firefox 4 Beta 4. 1

Aug

31

2010

For a good long time have been a Firefox beta tester. So far, was pretty much settled with Firefox 3.6.x, but now have started to test Firefox 4. So far, the first impression I had was .. “its lighter”. But wait, more on that later. There is an instant feedback add-on installed with FF4, as ...

Ubuntu clive http 404 error solution. 3

Aug

5

2010

Update: For 11.04’s clive version 2.2.13, the youtube video URLs are throwing the following error. error: no match: `(?-xism:fmt_url_map=(.*?)&)' and the solution for this is to pick the package from Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric which is of version 2.2.25-2 as of this writing. Clive is very useful commandline utility to extract video from video websites like ...

Hello world! 1

Jun

18

2010

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Remove pen drive folder.exe virus using linux. 3

Jun

6

2010

Instructions to detect and delete EXE folder viruses. This virus has an extension of .exe corresponding to the folder name in the drive. For example if a folder has subfolder called as exam there will be an equivalent exam.exe existing too. In the windows explorer, these exe files will appear as an folder and user ...

Google Webmaster Tools : Verification procedure for a Blogger account. 1

May

31

2010

To use the Google Webmaster Tools for your blog, you must first add your blog and allow it to be self verified. This way you tell google, that this ‘site’ is indeed yours. For a blogger account, the help is given here. If you choose the meta tag verification method for your blogspot blogs, here ...

Kingston Pen drives Technical Support in India 53

May

12

2010

Please do not request for support on this page. Please contact the service centre from the link below or call customer care number provided. Consumer and Service & Support for Kingston pen drives and other products in India. Phone: 044 42015215 Toll Free No. 1860 425 4515. Detailed listing of service centers: http://legacy.kingston.com/india/support/service_center.asp Bangalore Service ...

Ubuntu Apache2 : Change default DocumentRoot /var/www 55

May

1

2010

By default the document root folder for apache2 in Ubuntu is /var/www. This is where you can store your site documents. In order to change the default site location to a different one, /opt/mysite use the following method. A detailed steps to install LAMP on ubuntu is given here. To do this, we must create ...

Shell : Remove blank spaces from filenames 1

Apr

21

2010

Just like I last posted the below script can be used to remove blank spaces from file names. #!/bin/sh find . -name "* *"|while read file do target=`echo "$file"|tr -s ' ' '_'` mv "$file" "$target" done

Shell script: Rename extensions of multiple files. 1

Apr

21

2010

Shell provides easy way of renaming multiple files. Eg: your directory has ’01 – Song1.mp3′, ’02 – Song2.mp3′, ’03 – Song3.mp3′ and you want to rename them to .txt. use the following commane. $rename mp3 txt *.mp3 The above command renames .mp3 files to .txt. An alternate script solution from here #!/bin/sh ls *.mp3|while read ...

Search and replace text in multiple files. 1

Sep

23

2009

I had a bunch of html files where a particular style sheet inclusion had to be removed from about 500 odd html files. Knew this could be done through an sed script , but found a better one using perl from here. export OLD_TEXT='<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”style.css”>’ export NEW_TEXT=’some new text’ and use it in ...