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There might come a situation where people would ban network gaming in dedicated n/w, and if you are a hardcore lover of Quake no one can stop you playing Quakr3 in a browser

Follow this link for Quake3 forever

http://necromanthus.com/Games/ShockWave/quake3.html

Came across a useful site in which you can find most of the useful Unix commands…

http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml

For Solaris use:

ifconfig -a | grep “inet” |  grep -v “127.0.0.1″ | awk ‘{print $2;}’

For HP-UX use:

ifconfig foo | grep “inet” | awk ‘{print $2;}’

Where foo is the interface, generally lan0, lan1 etc.

Ever wondered how to find the location of a telephone number, here is a useful site which will tell the location from where you got the call. Provided you knew the number…

http://www.tp2location.com/

To Make a file look older.

Use touch -t option to change the time stamp of a file syntax is:

touch -t ccyymmddhhMMSS filename

This is what The Dalai Lama had to say on 01/01/2004.
All it takes is a few seconds to read and think about. One small requet for the readers, don’t skip any of the points please read through the complete list…

Instructions for Life in the new millennium from the Dalai Lama:

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Was watching “No country for old men”, I just could not figure out the climax of the movie. Could not get the tone on which they were playing. So had to search for subtitle, here is one website which has very good subtitles. Search with the movie name and you will end up with different language of subtitles.

http://subscene.com

P.S - thanks to ajmr for letting me know this website…

In HP Unix “compress” command will compress around 50 to 60%. “gzip” will compress the file upto 80%. There is a command available in HP’s unix to convert a compress file to a zip file. “znew” will automatically convert compressed files(*.Z) to gunzip files(*.gz).

Example:
$ znew test.Z

To find the amount of RAM a Sun Machine has:

prtconf | grep Mem

Here is a small chat log between me and prabhu, could not control my laugh after this chat. This is what might happen after heavy lunch…

stephen
GA
Prabhu
GA
stephen
when are you getting home baby..
Prabhu
may b 6 or 7
y?
stephen
just asking..
6 na tomorrow va?
Prabhu
kusumbu dhaane
6 PM
stephen
i was asking about ur anni’s baby used a bad english Prabhu i think sunday or monday
stephen
oki..
my english was very much misleading..
Prabhu
i too misunderstood
stephen
good fun..
Prabhu
hmm