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Reminder for Gnome Panel

This is the program that lets us to enter the text and time at which it should be reminded me. The command has the following options -d: date eg:  17/3/2009 -t : time [ It's should be entered as 24hr clock] eg:   20:00:00 -r : reminder text [  …

Simplest way to remove trailing zeros of decimal numbers

This is a simple method I found to remove or strip trailing zeros of a decimal number. The function accepts the decimal number and return the trimmed value back. It removes all the redundant zeros in the number after the decimal point and if no number othe …

Backend For Panel Reminder

I had already posted about creating a Display Reminders In Gnome Panel. This post is an addition to that script. This is a backend script that writes what to print into the panel_remind file. I use this script to print Birthday Reminder and Things to remem …

Web page Performance for a Blog – Part 1

I have always under the notion that page performance for big websites or websites that have a sole server and various resources like CDN and load balancers. So I wanted to know if this is true. I set out to try web page performance my blog. I just wanted t …

Pass cookie from script to firefox

I had a requirement to get firefox to open a logged in page in firefox. I used it for automated opening of some logged in pages. But there is another use for it. It can be used for opening mail or any other site that needs to be logged in. The only issue,  …

Fix link issue in Twitter client of Fusion theme

When I tried out the Twitter client in fusion theme I noticed that the urls are wrong in that client. The URL in my client were like http://blog.sriunplugged.com/”http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Home” . So after a bit of digging into I found that the …