mutex vs semaphore : the toilet example
Came across this page while surfing/reading around on the internet. Boy, I sure won't forget the difference now.
irssi : quickly pasting an fpaste link to a channel
I recently posted mylist of irssi aliases that come handy on the fedora IRC channels. Today, I was experimenting and found something new. Suppose you head into #fedora, and ask for help. Someone asks you to fpaste something, lets say :
$ lsusb | fpaste
Now, instead of changing to another terminal …
shell script to get word definitions from dict.org
Edit : There's a list ofcommand line clients for dict.org here already, came across if after I had written the script. What a pity :/
So,
$ su -c 'yum -y install dictd' $ dict -f fedora 3 definitions found dict.org 2628 gcide The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0 …
Some troubleshooting links
Most of us who hang around on #fedora have a number of aliases that come in handy while troubleshooting. I thought I'd put them up here so people could have a look. You can place these in your ~/.irssi/config file.
fedoraYumConfig = "/me points $0 to http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions …
vim : copying to the system clipboard
Copying a file off vim to paste some place is sometimes a problem. If you have line numbers enabled, you must disable them before selecting the text, plus you manually need to re-compose your lines that broke during the paste etc. I was pretty sure that there would be an …
The fedora distribution process needs your help!
Hello!! Do you send out fedora media to people? Do you distribute fedora to your classmates and colleagues? Do you hold and attend events to help distribute fedora to more and more people? Most of us do, and are therefore a part of the Fedora Distribution Team. The Distribution team …
Note to self : command line text utils
- vim spell check support : http://tips.webdesign10.com/vim/how-use-vims-spellchecker
- LanguageTool : not yet packaged for Fedora. Needed for the vim LanguageTool script plugin.
- vim-latex along with the texlive packages.
- DeTeX : Not yet packaged for Fedora.
- evince-dvi : evince backend to view DVI files
- wc : for word counts and such
- wordnet : A …
System crash : away for 10 days
As the title reads, my system crashed in the morning today. It's not the hard disk. It looks like the mother board is fried. The system has been sent for repair. Therefore until I get a new system, or this one repaired, I will not be able to respond to …
Resizing pics : A simple command line approach
First install the required package:
$ yum install ImageMagick
Then,
$ cd /path/to/photos/to/resize $ for i in *.JPG ; do convert $i -resize 25% new$i; done
That's pretty much it! This is very very simple. You might have to check if the file names have spaces etc. (my camera …