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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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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Hotmail login from Linux machine using Firefox.

2010-07-15 1 min read Fedora Linux

Today I learnt two things. One is that Hotmail has changed the look of the email on the web. Quite good change. Looks good.

Second is that when loggin in to the hotmail using my Fedora box with Firefox, I was always getting the annoying, you are not on supported browser and saw the fix on <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/hotmail-problems-683894/?posted=1#post3345089" target="_blank">this link. The solution is as simple as changing the &#8221;general.useragent.vendor&#8221; for firefox. The way to do this is :

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New GNOME 2.24 is an incremental improvement

2010-07-15 1 min read GNOME Linux

<a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/149081">Link

Quite good details on the new improvements.. Currently I am installing empathy which looks quite interesting. Screenshot for empathy available <a href="http://linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Empathy-Screenshot-27288.html">here.

concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

2010-07-15 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/iwFUyltYgjM/concatenate-compressed-and-uncompressed-logs">concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001abd9" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; -or -name 'access.log' -exec cat {} ; This command allows you to stream your log files, including gziped files, into one stream which can be piped to <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000584b" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk or some other command for analysis.

Note: if your version of &#8217;find&#8217; supports it, use:

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