A Day without Wordpress
Sometimes the most unfortunate of the events fall upon at the most ill deserved of the times. Frustrated with the waiting, I set out on a maiden voyage to brush up my skills as an Electronics Engineer and pick up quite a few new things along the way. Except for the fact that I had to wait at Kerala Electronics, Trichur for almost a full hour to buy the components during which time, I heard enough of the old Trichur slang, the purchase was fruitful. I even got to spend some quality time over a juice of fresh pineapple with an old, close friend of mine.
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Packing and Unpacking in Perl
This post is more to serve as a reminder to myself. Perl has a handy keyword called pack which helps to store a variable in the template specified. pack thus takes two arguments. The first argument is the template and the second argument is the string to be packed according to the template.
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The Palm Gamble
What does it take to go up against something that has a solid market, a fanatic following and a brilliant strategist? An excellent foresight and the ability to make the possible out of the impossible. Who else would dare to take on something like the iPhone, that literally marked the era of touch-phones? None other than Jon Rubinstein, CEO, Palm Inc.Known better as the “guy who invented iPod”, Rubinstein worked as the Senior Vice President of Apple’s iPod Division till 2006.
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Bash YouTube Downloader
Here is a simple bash script to download YouTube Videos in mp4 via command line.
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IP from Command Line
This is a quick post. I was wondering how to get my IP Address without going to popular sites. I came up with this bash script
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The Clash of the Titans
No, I’m not going to review bing or write a bing vs. Google article.There are numerous articles and even sites doing it justice. Google is an established player in the search business, with a 64% share in the market. Google grew out of search and has always tried its best for the betterment of the search algorithms involved and the results produced. Microsoft, on the other hand had been bleeding market share over its products to Google for a long time. Ever since Google began releasing its free resources to the general public, starting with gmail, the war had begun. And it was almost always a one sided win, with Google generally taking advantage of its famed simplicity and efficiency combined with funny and humerous ways of introducing products.
Microsoft finally seems to have caught up on what it was lacking a long time. It had atlast begun to listen to its users. Eversince the much hyped Microsoft Windows Vista failed to make any noise, Microsoft have been careful of its products and the general market. Majority of the products that the evil from Redmond had been releasing ever since are quality products, reminiscent of the times that Micro-soft was formed. The new Internet Explorer, Office Suite and the unexpected free software, Windows Live Writer and above all, the latest Windows, Windows 7 have garnered hugely positive reviews and recommendations.
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Mastering those awks, greps and seds
What makes a GNU/Linux system infinitely useful and productive than a Windows system ? I would say, it is the countless utility programs available as part of the GNU Program. These nifty little demons are both a blessing and curse. A blessing in the sense that, almost all your text processing capabilities are handled smoothly and efficiently by these tools. On the other hand, knowing very little about one tool also has its disadvantages.
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Advanced grepping
I’ve been using GNU/Linux for almost an year now. But the surprises and features that GNU programs have been showing almost always amazes me. Its like having a monster beast in hand, trained to do only a particular task. As time goes on, you forget that the beast can do much more than it was trained for.
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Bing Searches “Google”
Bam! and Bing beta was launched. Bing is said to have the potential for net junkies to take a look at the search engine again. And moreover, it is one of the newer sensible offerings from Microsoft. So I headed over to Bing and did a search. Actually, two searches.
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