Archive for November, 2008
Should You Trust Facebook?
I just received an email from Facebook saying:
Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
To reset your email notification settings, go to:
[A link to facebook]Thanks,
The Facebook Team
Easily Create Code Snippets with Bonetree Box
Update: Looks like the link is not valid anymore 
Anyhow, one always can use http://pastebin.com 
Have you ever needed to show a code to a friend? If yes, I have no doubt that you will love Bonetree Box.
This web tool has a very simple and well-designed interface, and working with it is with no doubt a pleasant experience.
The tool has support for a set of popular programming languages, such as C, C++, Bash and more (I believe that this set will be extended over time), and allows you to create a syntax highlighted code snippets with zero effort.
How to Declare an Array of Strings in C
Ok, I know this is not a big deal, I just hate to deal with strings in C, so I’ll put the code here so I can copy-paste-modify whenever I need to do such things.
Purpose: declare an array of strings.
There are two cases here:
Collapse of Evolution (Video)
A scientific discussion by Haroun Yahya about (the collapse of) evolution theory.
Twitter from the Command Line
This simple but not perfect script will let you twit easily from the command line.
Open a new file with your favorite text editor, and add this:
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curl --basic --user USERNAME:PASSWORD \
--data status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -o /dev/null;
Save the file as twit (or any other name you choose).
Of course, we don’t like our password inside an accessible plain text file. So this is what I did:
Manpages for Linux Development
This year I’m taking a course in Operating Systems, and it looks like I’m loving this area. I’m going to post here problems I face during the course, and their solutions, so I can find them easily next time I need them. As a side effect, I’ll be sharing them with the world. The first problem I faced is with the manpages: Sections 2 and 3 of the man pages are necessary for development on Linux: Section 2 is about system calls, and section 3 is about library calls. These two sections do not come with the default Ubuntu installation (after all, Ububtu is for human beings!). So I was surprised when I typed “man 2 sigaction” and got this message:
Take Screenshots in Linux with “scrot”
I have found this tool recently, and I have no idea how I was able to manage without it before.
This tool allows you to capture any region of your screen, by selecting it with your mouse, clicking on the title-bar of a window and other methods. It’s very flexible and contains many options.
To download the program in Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install scrot
Now, open a new text file and type this
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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