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Geocities web sites to Internet Archive – An Effort to Save the History of Personal Web

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Nimal

With the recent news from Yahoo that GeoCities is going to be discontinued on October 26, 2009, the Internet Archive is working to ensure their collection of GeoCities sites is as deep and thorough as possible. Continue reading →

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Being Nice on a Linux Box – Process priority with ‘nice’ & ‘renice’

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Nimal

VirtualBox can be given higher priority using nice command. Also renice command can be used to change the priority of a running process. Continue reading →

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Shell – How to get surrounding lines of grep result?

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Nimal

Problem:I'm using grep to search for an error and want to display the surrounding lines also as they contain related information. How to do that? Solution:Using grep -C <# of lines to show above and below> <search> <file> The following … Continue reading →

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Why the YouTube logo changed to Green?

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Nimal

I was just creeping through YouTube, just to find something interesting to watch,what got my attention was the changed YouTube logo.Just a little Google search revealed that this green logo is to celebrate the Saint Patrick’s Day. Saint Patrick’s Day … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 comes with Grammar Checking

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Nimal

OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 is out by now and what make this release exciting for me is the new integrated Grammar Checking feature. OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 incrementally improves the grammar checking infrastructure via an API for a grammar checker in the Writer text … Continue reading →

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