Watch out!!!

Ever been in the situation where you want to run the command continuously without writing a shell script for it.

Watch is used to run a command to run at regular intervals. The basic syntax of the command is

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Wordpress to Blogger conversion

The blogger has been improved recently and you want to move your wordpress blog posts to blogger. The site wordpress2blogger would be really helpful to do so. Click here to visit the site and follow the instructions. It is really quick.

Casting malloc

Originally, the C language did not enjoy the void pointer. In those dark ages the char pointer was used as a generic pointer, so the definition of malloc looked something like this:

char *malloc(size)
int size;

Of course, this tended to cause problems when trying to assign a char pointer to, say, a double pointer. Because of this a cast was required:

Bang bang!!!

One reason people hate using command line is if something goes wrong or has to rerun the command, they have to type it all over again. Some use up arrow instead of retyping. But here is bang command typed as (!) exclamation, for your rescue.

Fedora 12 installation hangs on Dell laptop

I was trying to install Fedora 12 on my system. I have Dell vostro 1015 with 2 GB RAM. The installation hangs after running for some time. It does not hang at one particular place. I tried 3 or 4 times and every time it hanged at different places.

After going through their bug list, I found a bug related to my problem. To see the bug information, go to bug.

They have given a work around which did not work for me but it did work for some people.