Spoken Wikipedia

Just noticed the list of Spoken Articles.
Interesting indeed. While listening to Marie Curie notied that it was edited a little from the spoken article was uploaded.
Should the spoken wiki, also follow the wiki way? No, its not so easy.

Freedom Foundation gets Swiss aid for AIDS care


Freedom Foundation, Bangalore, has received a grant of Rs. 49.5 crores to be spent over five years, from the Geneva-based Global Trust Fund for treating persons with HIV/AIDS.


Source

noticed this with system-config-packages

system-config-packages says Preparing to Install when Removing Packages. Thought it could be a bug.

Anyway, lets see.


Happy Birthday Daddy!

Many more happy returns of the day,Daddy. :)

Macromedia missing plugin install works for FireFox 1.5

The title should say it all. With the previous versions of firefox, direct plugin install had invariably failed for me and I used to manually link it to the plugin directly. Now found that buy clicking that Lego shaped Logo for missing, Firefox 1.5 directly installed the macromedia plugin. whoosh! :)
Next comes Java, the need hasn't arisen yet. lemme see how it goes.

ljseek.com

I used blogger for a long time as a store of my notes,ideas and I could easily search them using google. When I decided to move to LJ the first doubt I had was, how will I search the entries of my notes. Now thats resolved. Thanks to ljseek.com.
More usage aspects of LJ I discoved were, I could syndicate XML feeds of my friends.

KDE India

KDE India is launched and interesting thing was, I was one of the founding members. :D

Fun!

command prompt here on win xp

yeah, cmd.exe is very limited. its bad. yet, when you need to use it. have to option of command prompt here from the explorer window with the following steps.

On M$ Windows XP:
1) Open Windows Explorer and Go to Tools -> Folder Options.
2) Go to File Types.
3) Select None Folder.
4) Click Advanced.
5) Select New and Give the values:
6) For Action: "Command Prompt here" (w/o quotes) and Application "cmd.exe" (w/o quotes again)
OK.
now, when you open the explorer have the facility to open the cmd.exe prompt easily at any level folder.

vim users,lets map

http://www.frappr.com/vim

SourceForge.net FireFox searchplugin

Mozdev Search
Writing one is fairly easy. Tried the above,it worked. Before submitting,I searched mozdev.org to find that someone already felt the need and has made it available.

leetspeak in python

Struggled with the print statement as it adds '\n' and a space.
Found that my friend's usage of print with ''.join([leet.get(x,x) for x in str]) worked!
So, here's the python way:
http://sarovar.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=63
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