Congratulations Kartik for becoming a Debian Developer! You make me proud! It’s been a long journey. You have stayed on course despite all the odds. Congratulations!
Thanks for the graphic Kunal 
Entries Tagged 'GNU/Linux' ↓
Congratulations Kartik!
August 6th, 2008 — GNU/Linux, Updates
Grab more contacts - ContactGrabber does 10 sites now
January 10th, 2008 — GNU/Linux, PHP, Technology, Updates
The latest version of our GPL product ContactGrabber now allows you to fetch contacts from 10 different sites.
- AOL (new)
- LinkedIn (new)
- Lycos (new)
- IndiaTimes (new)
- Yahoo
- Orkut
- Gmail
- Rediff
- Hotmail
- Myspace
ContactGrabber allows you to retrieve the address book contact information from various sites. If you are developing a site and need your users to import their contacts from other sites, or recommend you to their contacts, this is a great solution!
ContactGrabber is developed in PHP and is released under GPL.
Note: As of now, Gmail has an issue with some email accounts. They are moving accounts from one server to another and that’s what is causing the problem. This should be corrected soon.
Download ContactGrabber from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/contactgrabber
The code has been contributed by Magnet’s Mumbai and Ahmedabad teams! Great work guys!
Search and Replace Recursively using sed and grep
December 29th, 2007 — Apple, GNU/Linux
I have done this so many times, still I find a new problem doing recursive search and replace each time! Here's one small shell script that puts the issues I had on the Mac doing search and replace on a directory recursively.
Save the file as rpl.sh, chmod it 755, and execute it like:
CODE:
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./rpl.sh folderContainingFiles/ oldText newText
Does the job for me! This could be done in a single line, I got some ideas of using xargs etc, but all that did not work on my Mac (at least). So resorting to this.
CODE:
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#!/bin/sh
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grep -rl $2 $1 |
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while read filename
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do
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(
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echo $filename
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sed "s/$2/$3/g;" $filename> $filename.xx
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mv $filename.xx $filename
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)
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done
And yes, if you are going to use this, take a little time and do some argument checking before passing them around! Unless you think only a God user like you is going to use it!
Heard about Chumby?
December 15th, 2007 — GNU/Linux, Technology
Did you hear about Chumby? The new cute name on the web, that can display your flickr photos, eBay auctions, play iPod, ring an alarm and still work if it falls of your night stand? No? Then go read what Sujeet has to say about Chumby! He talks about Ambient Orb and Chumby, and how Chumby can be a great Christmas Gift (yeah, that had to come right?)
And by the way:
- Chumby is based on Linux. And a most of it is open source - including the hardware!
- A lot of the frontend is in Flash.
- You can develop widgets for it!
- It costs about $180
Ok, and if you can't wait to see it, here's a Chumby!
Thanks to Sujeet for the wonderful catch!
o3 Magazine
November 22nd, 2007 — GNU/Linux, Recommended Reading
o3 is a FREE electronic publication distributed in PDF format. It focuses on the use of Free and Open Source (FOSS) software in Enterprise and Business environments. Now what's special about o3 is that it even uses FOSS! The entire magazine is published using FOSS tools - Scribus, OpenOffice.org and Gimp. Yes, even the pictures and page layout is done using open source software.
o3's content is good, techy and the publication is maturing well. I like their focus on a particular topic, giving a whole lot articles on the cover story. The current issue talks about publishing with open source tools. And they had superb coverage on setting up enterprise email infrastructure with encryption, webmail and even text to speech voicemail in the last issue!
Check it out!
