Happy new year :). New year is the time for resolutions. I’ve had lots of funny resolutions till now. Some are weird enough that i can’t even type them here. Anyway this time, i wanted my friends to suggest me a resolution.So had my Gmail status saying “Someone suggest a nice resolution for me.plzz”. And look at the response i …
This post is total crap . So please don’t read this . 😛 😛 Hmmmm , then why am i writing this ? Time pass . 😛 I have always wanted a time machine . How nice it will be if you can chumma go forward write any test or exam and then go back prepare well, and then do …
No clue why I’m posting this picture. Was studying for my semester exams and browsing the files in my computer. Sweet Memories. 🙂
Semester exams starting tomorrow. Do i need to say more? :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( No, that’s not enough. I …
I guess every GNU/Linux user must have sshed from one comp to another sometime or the other. We have different servers for various purposes in our college and ssh is a common thing. Most of the time, we end up typing some thing like ssh -XCYP hari@spider.nitt.edu Though not many knows what these options stands for, life will become very …
Want to use LDTP to test your application? Or do you want to automate the actions you do often? Or are you a GNU/Linux user who want to show “magic” to your friends by recording your actions and playing them back? You can use LDTP for this. But one small issue with LDTP is that you should know the LDTP …
In this article, we’ll see how to write plugins for Gedit. Since plugin development is easy in Python, I’m planning to explain this using Python. When the first caveman programmer chiseled the first program on the walls of the first cave computer, it was program to paint the string “Hello, world” in Antelope pictures. Roman programming textbooks began with the …
Often you would like to have a feature in gedit like, Compile when F7 is pressed, Compile and Run when F8 is pressed and more and more. One simple (grrr…) solution for this is to write our own plugins. But to write a plugin for gedit in python, you need to know pygtk and of course python. A simple …
Every GNU/Linux user must be knowing about Gedit. This tiny text editor which comes with gnome is much more powerful than we all think. A few customizations and adding a few plugins will convert this simple text editor into a complete IDE for any programming language. In this article, i have mentioned about the configurations i have made in my …
Wikipedia says “The term blue may refer to any of a number of similar colors. The sensation of blue is made by light having a spectrum dominated by energy in the wavelength range of about 440–490 nm. Blue is considered to be one of the three primary additive colors in the RGB system; blue light has the shortest wavelength range …
Slice notation is one of the powerful feature in python using which can be used for operations like substr, str_reverse etc etc. The slice notation is really powerful for strings. I’m not very sure whether it can be used for other data types. For a string, it can be used as variable_name[start:end:step] If the start and end are equal, then …
I wasn’t sure why people celebrate shutdown day and all. The whole idea looked stupid. 😛 But it was not so. Our college network was shutdown yesterday. No Gmail. No Orkut. No Spider. No Delta. Nothing 😛 All i had was 2 or 3 computers with Linux and Windows :). Many many thanks to all the Gnome and KDE games, …
Working on any product which is not yet released and developed by hackers all over the world 😉 gives you sweet surprises every now and then ;). I have already mentioned how the form elements are made better in FF3.0 in http://sp2hari.blogspot.com/2007/06/firefox-3-ui-rocks.html The next surprise is Bookmarks ,FTP browsing and Downloads window 🙂 :). Check out the screenshot for yourself …
Recording your screen in Solaris works right out of the box. All you need to install is vncserver and vnc2swf. A simple HOW TO about recording your screen in Solaris. 🙂 First you need to install Vncserver. Solaris by default doesn’t come with a VNC. The easiest way to install VNC is through pkg-get root@home# pkg-get -i vncserver Before running …
Yes, you heard it right. My tinderbox is working. Even now i don’t know why i was trying to setup a tinderbox after both Emily and Nags asked me to concentrate on Firefox automation. I felt it was almost done and just few more steps, i will be able to set it up. And that’s what finally happened 🙂 So …
Updates about SOC. 30 test scripts are working fine without any issue :). My target is to write 50 test cases and i will try to reach that this weekend 🙂 :). The scripts can be downloaded from here. Things to be modified when you run your script in your environment are. 1. In the file firefox.xml, change the value …
Sorry for not updating the blog for a long time :(. Even now i am not going to write much. Just a list of arbit words which comes to my mind :-). Helloooooooo Delta Inductions Spider Inductions Idiot Brave Olarify Promise Psycho ***aloooooooooooooooo Fli……. mummyyyyyy hmmmmmmmm If you have no clue what these mean, then just think that i was …
When i saw the mail from nags saying ” Can somebody evaluate it and send me back the results. It was done by Yazhini, long time back, but I could not check them.” even i didn’t think i will write the test cases for file-roller that night. I just wanted to see the code and maybe make a comment. After …
You never know when things will work and but if you believe that they will work ,they will. Ha, finally my own quote 😛 . The Solaris download which i asked my friend to do failed 🙁 . Crap . I waited for that for more than 2 days and finally it failed. Now i can’t to afford to wait …
“The word “project” originally meant “something that comes before anything else is done”. When the word was initially adopted, it referred to a plan of something, not to the act of actually carrying this plan out. Something performed in accordance with a project was called an object. This use of “project” changed in the 1950s when several techniques for project …
Well, i am kind of not sure whether i should write this or not. I have never written a blog describing about someone else ,his second girl friend and about their deep love and how she became my girl friend after that. But recently, the tech level of my blog has increased so much that my normal friends don’t even …
Do you know that when you use caps or large font while chatting or in mail, it implies that you are shouting. I generally get irritated when people shout, but this one is an exception. I was really glad that he shouted. In fact, i was waiting for him to shout. Now that he is with us, nothing can stop …