September 23, 2009 by Ajo Paul
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 the perl command as follows.
perl -w -i -p -e “s/$OLD_TEXT/$NEW_TEXT/g” *.html
or use it against all .html files from the current directory using find and xargs
find . -name “*.html” | xargs -i perl -w -i -p -e “s/$OLD_TEXT/$NEW_TEXT/g” {}
Tags: perl, search&replace
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September 23, 2009 by Ajo Paul
Google has a host of mobile products for the Indian market, the full list can be seen here. Among them, the pick of the lot is the SMS product, using which one can get instant PNR status for your Indian railway ticket reservation.
Excerpts from the page here.
Get cricket scores, Indian Railways train schedules & ticket status, horoscopes, movie showtimes, restaurant information and more …all through SMS on your phone.
Best of all, you don’t pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.
Try it out! Simply send your search query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000 and we’ll send you results back by SMS immediately.
Of course, don’t forget to save 9-77-33-00000 to your phonebook for quick and easy access to Google SMS in the future!
There are no premium charges for this service, only the cost of sending a standard SMS. Incoming messages from Google are not charged.
Also there are host of other services we can use too. Found them useful. Like movies, news, train fare, local business etc.
Tags: google, mobile
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August 28, 2009 by Ajo Paul
Until I saw this post , I was sorely missing the duplicate tab for firefox. It was near the top of my most loved firefox extensions till firefox 2.x. The addons page for this extension said it does not support 3.5. Well, and then I learnt 3.5 has a built in duplicate tab feature.
Just press the ctrl key and hold the tab you want to duplicate, drag and drop it to the place/area you want the new duplicate tab to appear. And thats it!!..
Life is simple now 
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Tags: duplicate tab, firefox, firefox3
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August 24, 2009 by Ajo Paul
Collabnet has added a enhanced merge client to work on top of Eclipse and subclipse. While it replaces the existing merge client given by default in subclipse, it adds quite few features for the merge process.
Every body knows the pain surrounded in an svn merge. No matter how you do it, there’s always a “merge related bug” that props up post a merge. The intention of this client was to simplify the merge process in a wizard fashion. While it does so, a very important feature was done away with: the dry-run feature.
Instead, it expects you to go ahead with the merge type you choose to, and then preview the conflicts and results in the Merge Results view. There is a menu option a called “Undo Merge” given there to let you undo your actions. So all these are done post a actual merge but before you commit the changes back to the server tree.
I got little nervous and uninstalled the feature coz I wanted to preview my merge before i “actually do it”. And then I bumped into this article on the new merge client, which clarifies the reasons for removing dry-run feature.
Happy merging
Tags: eclipse, subclipse, svn
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July 15, 2009 by Ajo Paul
To play 3gp videos with audio using mplayer in Ubuntu Jaunty, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
You need the GPG key for medibuntu packages. Get it the following way.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update
now install the following packages
w32codecs mplayer mencoder amrnb amrwb
You should be able to hear the sound in mplayer now.
Source
Tags: 3gp, amr, mplayer, ubuntu
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July 12, 2009 by Ajo Paul
Tags: kopete, ubuntu, yahoo
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June 12, 2009 by Ajo Paul
This post has reported that the flex builder work on linux has been put on hold. Noted Adobe techie has said “there is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development”
Well, that’s not a great news to hear.. considering the open sourced SDK of adobe flex, good amount of interest was generated in the FOSS developer community. To help it revive again, use this link to vote on the adobe site.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19053
From the current builder available on linux ,which is infact a eclipse plugin, the main feature I missed was, the design view in it. Hopefully, when the development continues design view is also ported to linux.
Tags: eclipse, flex, flexbuilder, linux
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May 27, 2009 by Ajo Paul
New in gmail labs allows you to preview your inbox when gmail is loading. Useful, if you have a little slow connection. Your anxiety of which mails you are about to open will be served too.:) Just goto gmail -> settings – > labs look for inbox preview enable it, close the browser and relogin again.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-in-labs-inbox-preview.html
Tags: gmail
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May 26, 2009 by Ajo Paul
Tags: eclipse, flex
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November 2, 2008 by Ajo Paul
Tags: foss.in, fossdotin
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