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Honda Dreams Fund

Honda in partnership with UNDP will be giving away full education scholarships to 20 underprivileged candidates. The scholarships will enable the candidates to futher the higher education here in Malaysia.

Honda Dreams Fund.

If you have the dreams, we have the means.

The Honda Dreams Fund is our philanthropic initiative that provides full scholarships to 20 promising underprivileged youths.

We focus on underprivileged youths who deserve the opportunity of a higher education to achieve their dreams and aspirations. We want to help them discover the joy and fulfillment of realizing their dreams, to realize their true potential and help build a brighter future.

We want to help others take their first steps to realizing the power of their dreams.

~Mr. Soichiro Honda~

So how do you apply?

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How to remove ^M character with VI

This is how you remove those annoying ^M characters that show up in files previously edited on a Windows/DOS platform.

In VI,

:%s/[ctrlkey+v and ctrl-key+M]//g

actual command,

:%s/^V^M//g

Here’s a walk through video I made. My first actually

openSUSE main repository back online

Quick update to my previous post, the main openSUSE repositories are back online.

How to find files in linux

Need to find files older than certain time frame? This will help, “find [dir] -type f -mtime +[24hours*n] ”

Examples,

Show files older than 7 days

find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7

Show files older than 7 days and rm them.

find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

or if you have a large number of files

find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +7 | xargs rm

openSUSE main repository down

The main openSUSE repositories have been down for about 12 hours now due to hardware failures. If you are using these mirrors then your package manager would most likely fail as mine did. Screen shots below.

So what do you do?

It’s advisable to use a mirror closer to your location. I use Japan. The performance is better when compared with the other Asian mirros.

For the full list of mirrors go to the openSUSE Wiki

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