To preserve formatting in HTML

Hi all,

In HTML sometimes you need to preserve whatever formatting you intend to include in your HTML page. Use <pre> your text here </pre> in such situations.

That's it!

Cheers

Ubuntu autoremove

Hi all,

The command sudo apt-get autoremove removes the packages that were installed to satisfy dependencies of another package but no longer required.

That's it!

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Draw Arrows in GIMP

Hey guys,

To draw arrows in GIMP, here is what you can do.

• You can find a plugin at http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269
• Download the .scm file (arrow.scm)
• Save the file in the scripts folder of GIMP
• e.g. In Ubuntu open your home folder, press ctrl+h to show hidden files, open .gimp-2.6/scripts
• Open GIMP
• Using Tools->Paths draw a path. i.e. click two points
• Next, go to Tools->Arrow and press OK

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Resize text fields in MS Visio drawing along with the group

Hey guys,

If you have also have encountered this problem, here is a one remedy.

1) cut you text field
2) goto Edit->Paste special and paste it as a Picture (enhanced meta file)
3) group it again

Now, you can resize it without a problem.

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To keep formatting when copying from Notepad to MS Word

Hey all,

I have always had trouble copy/paste MS Notepad texts to MS Word because usually the formatting goes away. It is important to keep formatting if you are especially copying guitar chords.

Here is what I do to keep the formatting.

1. Copy the content from webpage to MS Notepad.
2. Copy the text from MS Notepad to MS Word
3. Change MS Word font to a fixed length font like Courier New

That's all!

cheers!!!

Jump back and forth in Code::Blocks

Hi all,

This is how it is done.

1. First, you need the BrowseTracker plugin.
• The BrowseTracker-plugin is part of the contrib-plugins. You can install it using the synaptic package manager (codeblocks-contrib)
2. Once you have the BrowseTracker plugin you would see "Jump" tab in the "View" menu.
• now you can use this "Jump" for navigating back and forth.
3. However, to make things a little bit easier you can use the Keyboard shortcuts plugin to assign shortcuts.
• Go to "Settings->Editor" in the menu bar.
• Choose "Keyboard shortcuts"
• In the Commands: option go to Menu bar->View->Jump and add your keyboard shorcuts

That's it!

Cheers!!!

head and tail for shell scripting

Hey guys,

Do you know the head and tail commands?
For example,

head -10 abc.txt > abc_left.txt
tail -10 abc_txt > abc_right.txt

• The first command will read the first 10 lines from abc.txt and write them into a abc_left.txt file
• The second command will read the last 10 lines from abc.txt and write them into a abc_right.txt file

Cool isnt' it?

Cheers!