Cube http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en Shayan Shahand's blog about Computer, Web2.0, Open Source apps and lifestyle Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:35:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 1660149http://www.feedburner.com Bash as a fortune teller http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shahand/cube/~3/435716828/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/10/29/bash-as-a-fortune-teller/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:30:51 +0000 Shayan http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/?p=9 Yup, I like Linux bash, because it’s fun, fast and geeky! wanna exploit Linux bash as a fortune teller? just add the following lines to your “~/.bashrc” file, so whenever you open your Terminal or Konsole you’ll read a famous quote or some nice words about your fortune:


#let's have some fun when loggin in!
echo "==== Quote of the Day ===="
wget -q http://anduin.eldar.org/cgi-bin/fortune.pl?text_format=yes --output-document ~/fortune.out
cat ~/fortune.out
rm -f ~/fortune.out
echo "==== Linux rocks ===="

Requirements: wget and of course an Internet connection.

]]> http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/10/29/bash-as-a-fortune-teller/feed/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/10/29/bash-as-a-fortune-teller/ Be Successful! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shahand/cube/~3/428491602/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/10/22/8-secrets-of-success/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:03:09 +0000 Shayan http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/?p=8 Whenever I feel lost, whenever I feel depressed, whenever I feel frustrated I watch this great talk. I always carry it on my phone so can watch it anytime anywhere. No more praise, let’s watch:

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Follow your heart and pursue your dreams: that makes you feel proud of yourself and happy

And this happiness is the reason for life.

-me

]]> http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/10/11/dream-cautiously/feed/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/10/11/dream-cautiously/ A simple backup script http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shahand/cube/~3/284658107/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/05/06/a-simple-backup-script/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:04 +0000 Shayan http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/?p=6 The other day, I wrote this bash script; I thought it would be good to share it with others too, may save someone time or help somebody. I usually use it at the end of day to create a backup of the software package I developed during the day. Just run it with the directory address you’d like to create backup of as input and in a glimpse the backup tar.gz file will be ready at ~/backups/. Later, for more assurance you may upload your backups to an online repository site like box.net or filedropper.com.

The backup.sh script is:

#!/bin/bash          

SRCD=$1
TGTD=~/backups/

BASENAME=$(echo $1|rev|awk -F \/ ‘{print $1}’|rev)
if [ -z $BASENAME]; then
	BASENAME=$(echo $1|rev|awk -F \/ ‘{print $2}’|rev)
fi
OF=$BASENAME-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz

tar -cZf $TGTD$OF $SRCD

Nothing special, just a simple backup script; Have a good day.

]]> http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/05/06/a-simple-backup-script/feed/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/05/06/a-simple-backup-script/ I’m back with good news http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shahand/cube/~3/281387847/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/05/01/flishr-picartia/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 10:55:57 +0000 Shayan http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/?p=5 Hi, long time no see.

After one month of busy time, last night I found some free time to upgrade Cube’s and Mokaab’s Wordpress and reopen the blogs. To be honest, the reason why I set them down is not because of Wordpress which was out of date, but yet I prefer not to describe it here. Those who are closer to me may know.

Anyway, about the good news, long story short, “we” also launched two child project:

Ok, take care, catch up with you later.

]]> http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/05/01/flishr-picartia/feed/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/05/01/flishr-picartia/ Serenity Prayer http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shahand/cube/~3/252413657/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/03/16/serenity-prayer/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:09:11 +0000 Shayan http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/03/16/serenity-prayer/ God! grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can and The wisdom to know the difference.

]]> http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/03/16/serenity-prayer/feed/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/03/16/serenity-prayer/ Linguistically Classified http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shahand/cube/~3/236481227/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/02/17/linguistically-classified/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:22:54 +0000 Shayan http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/02/17/linguistically-classified/ First: I was thinking the other day, that I can classify my friends into four groups according to the sentences they use in their daily conversations:

  • Those who start almost every sentence with the word “Actually“
  • Those who start almost every sentence by using the word “Basically“
  • Those who end up almost every sentence by the word “Already“
  • And those who doesn’t follow any habit in speaking or at least I have not discovered their speaking habit yet.

And I, myself fall into the first group

Second: I’m marking undergraduate student lab reports for data structures course; 46 set to be marked and I have still 36 more to go. I guess now I’m passing from the 1st box to the 2nd box according to this fabulous comic:

PhD Comics: Marking Undergraduate Reports

Update: It took me about 15 hours to mark them all and type the results in the forms and print them and.. I was awake last night and now, I’m dying of sleep, but! I have to stay awake! because I have 4 hours lab supervision this morning…

]]> http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/02/17/linguistically-classified/feed/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/02/17/linguistically-classified/ Hello world! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shahand/cube/~3/231414066/ http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/2008/02/07/hello-world/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:21:47 +0000 Shayan http://shayan.shahand.com/blog/en/?p=1 Welcome to Cube.

Happy Chinese New Year! It was quite a while that I planed to start my own blog, yeah, and finally today I made that plan. Today is the first day of year according to the Chinese calendar. This year is the rat’s year and I’m a rat too! What a nice coincidence.

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