July 2011
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Installing FTP client on Redhat 6
For some odd reason, the basic FTP client (netkit-ftp) was not installed in Redhat 6 distro. Following are some steps to install:
If yum is working fine for you (wasn’t working in my case), then its as simple as:
yum install ftp
The next option is to download the binary rpm (http://pkgs.org/) and install it:
rpm -Uvh ftp-<version>.rpm
In case you face issues such as...
November 2009
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Quick guide on installing Oracle 10g standard...
Installing Oracle 10g standard edition in Ubuntu Server 9.10:
If you are trying to install it in a remote location, then make sure you have xserver in the remote machine
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
ssh -X user@host
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/basename /bin/basename
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/awk /bin/awk
sudo addgroup nobody
Switch to the oracle setup directory and run the installer:
./runInstaller...
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Vi: Search/Replace/Delete
Some shortcuts for search/replace/delete in vi:
Search for a string: /<string>
Search for string in current cursor position: *
Repeat search: n[next]/N[previous]
Highlight search: :set hlsearch
Replace every occurrence in file: :%s/old/new/g
Delete every line matching a pattern: :g/pattern/d
Delete every line not matching a pattern: :v/pattern/d
Unveiling the Origins, Myths, Use and Benefits of... →
A Closer Look at Perl, Python, Tcl, PHP, Javascript and others.
“Without a sense of what’s next, a capacity for understanding connections...”
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Mac OS: svn cleanup not working →
Can’t move .svn/tmp/entries to .svn/entries: Operation not permitted
If you are the getting the above error just run: chflags -R nouchg .
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Mac OS: Changing the default java version to 1.6
There were a lot of posts on the internet on how you can use the Java Preferences app to 1.6, but unfortunately it did not work out for me. I had to do it the hard way of pointing the CurrentJDK symlink in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions to 1.6.
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Growl notification for Apple Mail →
A neat little apple script to get growl notification for Apple Mail. Though there is a GrowlMail plugin, this gives better control and works for OS X 10.6 too.
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Eventbug for Firebug
Played around a bit with Eventbug. With the new API in firefox 3.7a1pre it is now possible to list the event listeners defined on a page. Eventbug is an extension for Firebug, which adds a new tab ‘Events’ which neatly displays all the defined event listeners. There is an events tab under the HTML tab as well, which is really helpful to find out the event listeners on the currently...
Coding tests as part of the interview process
I just came across this article, which strongly states that coding tests are a bad interview technique. I do not completely disagree, but it really makes a lot of sense to have coding tests. First of all, it helps in filtering the kind of people who can talk a lot but don’t have enough hands-on skills. Another thing is coding tests are conducted not just to get a working solution from the...