2008 January - Part 4

Archive for January, 2008

Honda Dreams Fund

posted on January 17, 2008 in General, Malaysia with 7 Comments

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 [...]

How to remove ^M character with VI

posted on January 17, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 11 Comments

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

posted on January 17, 2008 in Internet, Linux with 0 Comments

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

How to find files in linux

posted on January 16, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 2 Comments

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 [...]

openSUSE main repository down

posted on January 15, 2008 in Internet, Linux with 1 Comment

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 [...]

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