Shenanigans

Set background image in Nautilus File Manager in Ubuntu

Scribbled on Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:32 PM IST

Here is the step by step procedure for the geekier approach.

Method 1 (The manual method) :

• Open a terminal window
• Type this command in the terminal

• The file “%gconf.xml” will get opened in “GEdit” text editior Read on…
  
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Why should I be a Vegetarian ?

Scribbled on Friday, January 18th, 2008

Look I don’t want to advocate that non-veg is bad but yeah I do feel that vegetarianism is a lot way better than chewing flesh.

So here are some facts and reasons that provides a base for my decision:

• Human dental structure and other herbivores dental structure matches whereas carnivores have conspicuous canines thats especially meant to tear away the meat and gulp it down. Read on…
  
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How many files are open ?

Scribbled on Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Most probably to find the answer in Linux, you will type this command at terminal (shell):

lsof | wc -l

lsof will give a row of open files and the result is piped(|) to word count (wc) command that counts the rows/lines (-l)

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Desktop of the month

by T on Wednesday

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The Fiction We Live

by T on Wednesday

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Close the batch file after executing a program

by T on Sunday

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A standalone Helloworld XUL example (XULRunner)

by T on Sunday

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Copy Text to Clipboard- IE, Firefox and Opera

by T on Friday

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Changing Network Interface Card Priority in Win XP

by T on Wednesday

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Blatant rip off - Smother Me

by T on Monday

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