We just now manaed to get Parag’s yum working… the rpm command was hanging like anything. A quick google search revealed that it can be solved by doing rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* So just wanted to document this for me… so that I wont have to ask google again for the same problem Another nice link… [...]
Yesterday night, I cooked up this small python script that can parse Orkut’s scrapbook & let you know who all scrapped you & what. The script takes input a static file as “Scrapbook.html” and reads it from your current dir to parse it. Very rudimentary parsing as of now… but it does works! …using BeautifulSoup [...]
I’ve been long using FC on my system, not to mentioned installed it about a hundred times… but I never came across this option (actually I never knew it untill I saw Aman using it). When at the boot promt (during the installation), use this linux vnc With *vnc* as an arg, the installation will [...]
Lots of time I’ve seen & answered this question… “How do I enable language support for my XXX language” So let me answer this once more & i’ll point everyone back to this post… lazy me The word “support” might mean getting fonts for your language, seeing correct rendering for characters of your language, getting [...]
Today, I was working on bug 200230 – [locale-def] Locale Definition is not in desired pattern for some Locales Some indic locales had incorrect spellings & some others had incorrect rendering. Though rendering issues were out of scope of this bug, correcting the spellings was my task… I started with pa_IN locale & we found [...]
Writing this small python script which takes a preformatted file (with unicode points and their glyphs) as input and produces several images (JPEG format) of corresponding grapheme clusters. Though I had originally intended to produce PNG’s, but later (on a special request) used ImageMagick’s “convert” utility to convert it to a jpeg. My initial idea [...]
If you work like me, editing & moving files constantly between two users on the same linux box, you know that copying files from one home directory to another is hell! Specially because each time you have to switch to root, copy & then chown it to the new user! I’ve got a better idea… [...]
My good friend Santana just pointed me to a nice mozilla bug – Help yourself to satisfy yourself! Lack of Sex is interfering with my ability to triage bugs Nice!