addons.mozilla.org

The user will select any word from the current webpage and choose "wikipedia description" on the right click. The selection will be submitted to the website mobile.wikipedia.org
For e.g. if I have selected the word "obama" and searched using "wikipedia description", I will be directed to the site that will show me a few lines about Barack Obama.

The URL is menioned in the url tag and that looks something like this.
mobile.wikipedia.org/transcode.php?go=obama

pretty easy, huh?

innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT
innodb_file_per_table
innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit = 2

Brace expansion is used to generate arbitrary strings. For e.g.
ls mysql*.0000{1..3}

will list the files like mysql.00001 mysql.00002 & mysql.00003

This can also be used for something like this...

cp mysql.log{,.bak}
>> cp mysql.log mysql.log.bak

cp $da.log{.bak,}
>> cp 2010-05-28.log.bak 2010-05-28.log

Microsoft mess is not a topic for me to blog anymore. But since someone whose blog I track has mentioned about it, let me link the article.

ma.tt

The only advice is do not use Micro$oft products when better alternatives are available. The machine automatically boots when the security updates are installed silently! Another reason to use pirated software?

Instead of specifying password in mysql command line, I prefer storing it in ~/.my.cnf while doing such works to avoid typing passwords every time. you can create this file or supply password as you wish.

$ cat ~/.my.cnf
[client]
user=root
password="password"

You can save the current file as a new file after making changes,
:w new_file.txt

If you want only 50 lines starting from line number 100, use...
:100,150w! new_file.txt

#!/bin/sh
unset REPLY
until [[ $REPLY ]]; do read -p "Enter your name: "
done
echo "welcome $REPLY"

I spent a lot of time figuring out how to upgrade my PEAR package.
The trick is to install the PEAR package with –force to make it go through

# pear upgrade --force PEAR

cat myawk.sh
#!/bin/sh
# list the type of files with count
find ${*-.} -type f -print | xargs file |
awk '{
$1=NULL;
t[$0]++;
}
END {
for (i in t) printf("%d\t%s\n", t[i], i);
}' | sort -nr

ps aux
When you run ps you will only get the first 40 or so characters displayed. In order to view the entire string, use ...
ps auxgww