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Tips for Emacs Power Users

by Vivek Gite

This is great post by Stevey Drunken about mastering Emacs text editor which is quite quite popular among UNIX hackers, computer programmers and power users:
Emacs is the world’s best text editor. It’s not just the best for editing program source; it’s the best for any kind of text-editing. Mastering Emacs will make you more [...]

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How to Access Network When Everything Else is Blocked

by Vivek Gite

There is a program called Ping Tunnel to send TCP traffic over ICMP. From the project home page:
Ptunnel is an application that allows you to reliably tunnel TCP connections to a remote host using ICMP echo request and reply packets, commonly known as ping requests and replies. At first glance, this might seem like a [...]

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How to: Customize Ubuntu Linux

by Vivek Gite

This guide will let you pimp you Ubuntu Linux to look like Windows Vista or Mac OS X. Linux is awesome.
From the article:
Changes are part of Nature so as with Technology, though this cannot be True for Windows and Mac cause the life cycle of a single Version is too much which is not the [...]

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Run a perl or shell script cron job on the first Monday or the Nth weekday of the month

by Vivek Gite

This is a classic problem. One of our FAQ is about cron job. I received lots of email with a question:
How do I run my script on 3rd Monday or 4th Friday only?
Cron does not offer this kind of facility i.e. you cannot run a script on the Nth weekday of the month.
However with one [...]

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