GNU screen

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/34

Parse record

#!/usr/bin/perl

# input: string, hash { field1 => length1, field2 => length2, ... }

# output: hash { field1 => value1, field2 => value2, etc }

sub extract2 {

print "extract2 ...\n";

my $str = shift;

my $fieldlist = shift;

# construc matching pattern

my $patstr = "";

while( my ( $fieldname, $fieldlength ) = each %$fieldlist ) {

$patstr .= "(.{$fieldlength})";

} # end while

# match it

if ($str =~ m/$patstr/) {

my @values = $str =~ /$patstr/;

# create the output

my $i = 0;

while( my ( $fieldname, $fieldlength ) = each %$fieldlist ) {

$record{$fieldname} = $values[$i++];

}

return \%record;

} else {

my %record = ();

return \%record;

}

}

$str = "AAABBBBCCCCCDDD";

%header = (

field1 => 3,

field2 => 4,

field3 => 5,

field4 => 4

);

$output = extract2($str, \%header);

print "outside ...\n";

for my $key (keys %$output) {

my $val = $output->{$key};

print "$key , $val \n";

}

exit 0;

National Geographic wallpapers

http://rapidshare.com/files/30822944/610_national_geographic_images.zip.html

Wild South America

http://forumw.org/viewtopic.php?t=116728

Bash stuff

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Fix for acroread in FC6

ACROREAD FIX FOR FC6

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

sudo rpm -ivh AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386.rpm

NOTE: There is a problem with v7.0.8 and will not work properly in FC6.
To fix, edit as root:

sudo gedit /usr/bin/acroread

Make the following changes:

Line ~418:
From:
  echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
To:
  echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

Line ~643:
From:
  MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"
To:
  MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"

More information: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc14512

Acrobat Browser Plugin

The browser plugin is NOT automatically installed. This is optional. To install it:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

http://www.projectw.org/viewtopic.php?t=259537