Exercise in futility … err … zenity
shashi @ August 20, 2008 # One Comment
The other day, while working with some shell scripts I thought I could add some better usability into the mix - and hence whip up some dialogs using zenity (gdialog’s new avatar). And while at it, I had an enjoyable 20 minutes with good old unix concepts. Here:
I needed to figure out how to use [...]
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All in a name!
shashi @ August 16, 2008 # 5 Comments
In our company, we have this tradition of naming our computers (Linux desktops, servers, etc) on a particular theme. Now, our chosen theme is Captain Haddock’s choicest swear words. So, while caterpillar is our file server, typhoon our gateway, anacoluthon my laptop, rapscallion, rhizopod, jellyfish, balderdash, etc make up the other desktops.
Recently we hired a [...]
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Free Operating Systems. Next"enta" ?
shashi @ June 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
enta (ಎಂತ) in Kannada slang translates to “whither” as in “whither are we wandering ?“.
Over the past couple of months huge strides have been made in the development and deployments of several new free operating systems. While tracking their progress and goals, I’m writing down a couple of points for myself to revisit some [...]
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