Quotes

Jul 19, 2011
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Quotes I liked. Source: Internet & people in and around planet earth. If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair with them, it is like expecting a lion not to eat you because you don't eat lion. - Internet PhD: Permanent head Damage - Anonymous graduate student If you succeed in cheating someone, don't think he/she is a fool. Rather realise...
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CVS cheatsheet

Jul 15, 2011
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Tested on: CentOS release 5.6 (Final) There are many other CVS cheatsheets & books on the web. This is my version, which is intended to grow with time but will be less verbose (might not be good for beginners). Update current working directory with prune & build directories cvs update -P -d Difference between current version & latest repository version: cvs...
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Infrequent Linux commands

Jul 15, 2011
Tested with mainly Ubuntu-based distributions. List of Linux commands which are useful but not frequently used. See online or local man pages for details. System Information uname -a # Details of kernel, processor, machine, OS cat /proc/version # Detailed kernel version. More details about /proc. cat /etc/*-release # See details of distribution lsb_release -a ...
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Font & old emacs

Jul 11, 2011
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Tested on: CentOS release 5.6 (Final) The newer version of emacs (23.x) has a nice option in menu to change the default font. But the older emacs (21.4.1) does not have these options. The older (& stable) versions of emacs are generally shipped with centos. Here are steps for changing the default fonts in emacs 21.4.1 Option 1 (for current sessions only) Open emacs. Left-click...
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