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Hello Drivel!!

Posted by: sathyz on: December 4, 2009

This is my first post from Drivel 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04. Looks cool.
Hello World!!

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mobile services – do they care about us???

Posted by: sathyz on: December 4, 2009

Motorola / Redington Services
Problem description :
- battery drains so often
- headset doesn’t work – problem with the socket – gets disconnected often (loose connection).
- FM isn’t audible
Logged on 22/Oct @ Redington, Alwarpet ( with warranty )
I was told to get back after a few days to know the status.
As I called after 3-4 days, it [...]

Motorola em325 – my experiences/feedback

Posted by: sathyz on: October 13, 2009

I have used Nokia/Samsung/Sony Ericsson and recently I have switched to Motorola EM325. Finally I made up the decision to post my bad experiences with this mobile/model. My intension is not to promote some ABC mobile/model, I’m just sharing my points that I had noted these days with my mobile/model.

Contacts, you don’t have the [...]

easy switchover between tabs in vim

Posted by: sathyz on: August 17, 2009

I was so lazy to type :tabnext, :tabprev everytime to swtich between tabs in vim. Now it was made easy by,

map <silent><A-Right> :tabnext<CR>
map <silent><A-Left> :tabprevious<CR>

Got this from John Anderson’s page

sed commands useful for hibernate

Posted by: sathyz on: May 26, 2009

After generating hibernate files using ant tasks the column names and table names has to be edited.

say generated code

This has to be edited as,

I use the following sed commands to do this.

sed -i ’s|table=”\([a-zA-Z_]*\)”|table=”\"\1\"”|g’ table.hbm.xml
sed -i ’s|column name=”\([a-zA-Z_]*\)”|column name=”\"\1\"”|g’ table.hbl.xml
sed -i ’s|schema=”\([a-zA-Z_]*\)”|column name=”\"\1\"”|g’ table.hbm.xml

firefox persona

Posted by: sathyz on: April 10, 2009

just tried firefox persona. Love my firefox after that..

Getting Started with Personas from Mozilla Labs on Vimeo.

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sample tests for browser

Posted by: sathyz on: November 11, 2008

Here are the few links that I got that helps you in testing your browser. (check the results for your browser too).

sunspider executes a set of java script tests and allows you to again compare it with any of your another browser.
http://mozilla.pettay.fi/xhr_upload/xhr_upload_demo.html – this will basically let you test XMLhttprequests.
acid tests – for testing the [...]

Embedding video in HTML is very easy now, (no need to code streaming apis).
All we need to do is just use videos same as how we embed image. Firefox3.1 has this feature enabled and its very simple.

<video src=”videofile.ogg” autoplay>
  Your browser does not support the <code>video</code> element.
</video>

This will embed video in your page and starts [...]

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[Ruby] introduce delays in srt

Posted by: sathyz on: August 26, 2008

I use Ubuntu. The most annoying part when using srt’s subtitles from opensubtitles.org is synchronization. Using gnome-subtitles editor failed even to load the srt files. There was subtitleeditor which loaded srt and allowed to edit timing but on saving the file, the format got changed and totem was not able to detect/load the subtitle.
Then [...]

[RUBY] Installing RMagick to work with Watir

Posted by: sathyz on: March 7, 2008

Watir Works with ruby 1.8.5 only.. [problems exist with ruby 1.8.6 - latest].
To Install RMagick to work along with that,

Get rmagick-win32
Extract the zip and install Image Magick.
Read Me in that will help in next steps.. any way.. let me say only necessary steps.. do
gem update –system

cd $$unzipped_dir$$

install rmagick gem :
gem install rmagick [...]