Software, Software Testing and every thing in between

Server side monitoring in JMeter with JMeter Plugins

2011-10-15T04:21:00.001+05:00

Like may I needed some server side statistics while running load tests earlier I had couple of Ruby scripts which were gathering my required information on server as CSV file I do have webmin configured on the server but I was still looking for something which is bit more tightly coupled with one of the most famous (easy to use) tool for load testing JMeter.

Here is how to do it:
We just needed one thing JMeter Plugins
Prerequisite: JMeter 2.4+ or above with a JRE 1.6+
Download JMeter Plugins

Unzip it and (refer)

Copy JMeterPlugins.jar to JMETER_HOME/lib/ext.
Copy zip files content to the Server(s) you need to monitor

On each server run JMeterPlugins-HOME/serverAgent/startAgent.sh PORT_NUMBER (refer)
Run JMeter (create your test plan as usual)
You will see bunch of extra items in Add context menue's item beginning with jp@.. these are the extra plugins we just added via JMeterPlugins.jar
Add jp@gc - PerfMon Metrics Collector (refer)
Configure your parameters (refer)

Run your tests and see server side info

I have use it on Mac and Linux, it should be able to work with most of the systems since its server side agent is build on top of SIGAR - System Information Gatherer And Reporter

Run Sikuli in (J)Ruby - (J)IRB

2011-07-10T02:16:00.003+05:00

I use irb for composing and debugging scripts. Following is what you might need to do inorder to run Sikuli in IRB:

Install JRuby or via rvm
Copy sikuli-script.jar to jruby lib

cp /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app/Contents/Resources/Java/sikuli-script.jar $JRUBY_HOME/lib
For RVM:

rvm list (to list currently installed rubies)
rvm use jruby-1.x.x (to use jruby as the ruby implementation)
rvm info (to print information about the ruby currently being used)
cp /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app/Contents/Resources/Java/sikuli-script.jar $MY_RUBY_HOME/lib ($MY_RUBY_HOME points to the current ruby home, in this case jruby)

run irb (the irb prompt should list jruby as the ruby implementation, something like jruby-1.x.x :001 > )
jruby-1.x.x :001 > require 'java'

=> true

jruby-1.x.x :002 > java_import 'org.sikuli.script.Screen'

=> Java::OrgSikuliScript::Screen

jruby-1.x.x :003 > screen = Screen.new

=> #<Java::OrgSikuliScript::Screen:0x1dc2dad7>

jruby-1.6.0 :004 > image_path='/Users/mubbashir/Desktop'

=> "/Users/mubbashir/Desktop"

screen.hover("#{image_path}/apple.png")

[info] Sikuli vision engine loaded.
=> 1

You will see mouse pointer to be moved to apple icon.

With Auto Completion IRB is just a blessing, specially when you want to try some new library or need to run some snippets:

Similarly in script it would be something like:

to run the script ruby script_file_name.rb Just be sure that you are using JRuby ;)

Sikuli on Selenium- A demonstration of automation using selenium and Sikuli (such as flash uploader)

2011-07-09T21:52:00.012+05:00

Selenium 2.0 is just launched, and the excitement remind me that there are tons of selenium related things I need to share with the world.

One of those things is File Upload. File uploads have always been a real pain to automate using selenium.

People have used AutoIt (so have I) to upload on windows only environment. On windows, beside AutoIt, native events (of webdriver) have worked a great deal for me in the past.

It becomes a real challenge when file upload is done via some flash components (components which don't provides hooks from java script to play with files to upload).

I had tired couple of things but the thing which worked really well was to have type="file" and send keys but flash uploader and *nix remains challenging.

Then I stumble across Sikuli. From there web site "Sikuli is a visual technology to automate and test graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots)".

Below is what I have done to use it to automat file upload via flash components on MacOS X. With few image changes we should be able to port it for Linux.

Source code is available at: https://github.com/mubbashir/Sikuli-on-Selenium

See it pretty smoothly uploads the file, but .. It works like a real user and real human user i.e. a real user can only interact with what is being displayed on the Screen. If the browser window dosen't have the focus Sikuli will not be able to find images.

Did I mention that test are written using TestNG, so this can slightly work as demonstration of TestNG on Selenium as well.

Note: I haven't tried this in head-less mode.

Disk Usage on a Remote host: Enable X11 Forwarding for ssh and run x11 application

2010-09-27T23:09:00.006+05:00

Lately I was in the of analyze analyze disk space on a remote server, when you are on *nix you can do such things quite easliy.
ssh into your remote host and Enable ForwardX11

For enabling it for sshd (ssh deamon):
- sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- and modify X11Forwarding no to X11Forwarding yes
Restart sshd:
- sudo /etc/init.d/ssh
Exit from current session
ssh into remote host again with -X flag
- ssh -X username@hostname
Run your application in my case $ baobab

Have Look at JDiskReport for a cross platform app.
For Macs Edit sshd_config located in /etc

sudo vim /etc/sshd_config
ssh to your mac
Run the app $ java -jar jdiskreport-1.3.2.jar

Ruby IRB Auto Completion and Highlight - Linux

2010-09-27T23:09:00.003+05:00

Install wirble

laptop:~$ sudo gem install wirble
Successfully installed wirble-0.1.3
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for wirble-0.1.3...
Installing RDoc documentation for wirble-0.1.3...

vim ~/.irbrc

Put the following in this file:

require "rubygems"
require "wirble"
Wirble.init
Wirble.colorize

IRB.conf[:AUTO_INDENT] = true
IRB.conf[:USE_READLINE] = true
IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] = [] unless IRB.conf.key?(:LOAD_MODULES)
unless IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES].include?('irb/completion')
IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] << 'irb/completion'
end

type

:wq

Thats it on irb prompt use tab for auto completion

Example:

Install random_data

laptop:~$ sudo gem install random_data
Successfully installed random_data-1.5.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for random_data-1.5.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for random_data-1.5.1...

-laptop:~$ irb
>> require 'rubygems'
=> false
>> require 'random_data'
=> true
>> Random.al
Random.allocate Random.alphanumeric
>> Random.alphanumeric 11
=> "w1KbPVLzE2l"

Google Crisis Response - Pakistan Floods

2010-08-13T23:58:00.000+05:00

Google Crisis Response - Pakistan Floods

It is Fixed, or Just Fixed

2009-09-06T16:54:00.004+06:00

The first thing you tell a Tester is "How to write Test Cases", Then you tell him how to write the Better one, and How can you make them Effective. Then you throw IEEE guide lines on Tester to make even Lengthy. Even the gurus have told us what is a good Test Case.

And Once I follow all these guide lines (not matter I want to follow or not) and find some Bug then you kill me by Telling me how to write bugs and how to report bugs how to use the Bug Tracking system and how to use it Effectively. Even the gurus have told us about writing Effective Bug reports.

And few Sr Tester/ Test Manager believes, always write how to replicate the bug and If you can't replicate its not a Bug.

Asking the tester to follow this (instead of letting him Test) is done in the Name of Communication. Communication with Developers, communication with Product owners and Communication with rest of the Team. And then there comes the advocacy part.

Once I have spent this much time on ( things helping ) Testing, I follow the guide lines for creating Test Case, I follow the Guide Line of Bug Reporting and I advocate my Bug well. Then the developer acknowledge the bug and submits it patch and changes the State in the Bug Tracking System (or an Email thread) and puts his comments. "It is Fixed" or Just "Fixed".

Ohh Come on, I deserve more then that, show some courtesy You ask me to write and write and your response is "Fixed". You think I don't need to know

What was causing the Bug?
How have you fixed it?
What other Areas might have effected with the fix?
(during the earlier cycles of Testing) You don't want me to tell that you have been real Lame in deploying the application (For Testing) you haven't updated the config file you haven't deployed all components, you were using wrong code from wrong Source Code Tag.
You don't want me to tell you can't use regular Expression to handle Input fields.
Or there was a logical Error, You were Assuming it is to be done some other way (and I wan't to know the other way)
......

Knowing the application help me a lot to Test it, What was causing it help me a lot to Understand the Bug Pattern and Help to find similar things in other parts of the Application. What you have done to fix it Help me a lot to investigate Impact of the Fix and How can I make sure it hasn't effected any other area...

Why Test Managers Keep Telling his Testers How to write Test Case/Bug Report and Its dos and don't. Why Can't They Developers to shade some light on the Bug and Its fix.

Why Development Manager Can't Tell developers to write few lines when changing the state of the Bug.

Why It is just "Fixed"?

BTW, you can avoid all this, but for that you need to have good relations with developers you can get all that information on Informal communication channels.

Google Test Automation Conference 2009 - Zurich, Switzerland

2009-06-15T18:00:00.000+06:00

Google Testing Blog: Google Test Automation Conference 2009 - Zurich, Switzerland

The word is out, We will be having my all time favorite conference i.e GTAC on October 21 and 22 at the Google offices in Zurich, Switzerland.

I am sure this time we gonna create some noise on twitter with #gtac.

Selnium On Rails- by Eric Smith

2009-06-11T18:17:00.002+06:00

Eric Smith the current maintainer of Selenium On Rails delivered a presentation on it at Scotland on Rails.
I found it pretty informative and loved it's integration with rails. As a selenium RC user I like to have more control over the entire configuration but its not the easiest thing to do with RC.

On the other hand if you are using Rails, Selenium on Rails is the easiest way to have Automated Acceptance tests.

Check out the video (this and rest of the videos of Scotland On Rails are hosted by engine yard).

I can't avoid it any longer Oracle Anonces to Acquire Sun

2009-04-20T21:12:00.001+06:00

I have avoided to use Oracle's apps for long long time, But can't do that any more.

Its all done Oracle have Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun)

Now there is no escape at least for me to use Oracle.

For details see.

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems; tries to become the Apple of the enterprise

Or visit http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2009-0420/index.jsp

Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009) from Jurgen Appelo

2009-03-16T23:09:00.004+05:00

The updated list of Top 100 blogs for developer from Jurgen Appelo for Quarter 1 2009 is out, I have always enjoyed reading posts on http://www.noop.nl.

What exactly is there for a software Tester:
There are many reason a Tester should follow these blogs just for example:

1. Its such a Treat to read: Beautifully written, ranking have been explained and blogs which are not recently updated are no longer part of the list.

2. One can find a great list to follow on twitter: Just clicked on the link at column Author / Twitter in from of the blog.

3. You will find some great software testers in that list: (Though this has nothing to do with their credibility as a Tester or as Tester's Mentor) Its good to see James Bach’s Blog among top 30, Tester Tested! have made to the list (last time he was in bonus 25 blogs worth reading)

Thanks a lot for the effort Jurgen Appelo.

Time to sync the list in my rss reader :)

Having fun with geany:

2009-03-14T21:28:00.006+05:00

Its my tester's instinct which enforce me to try out all those different things (most of them are Open Source), it ranges from ruby/rails, groovy/grails, Flex, Air to Editors/IDEs like Netbeans, pimped Gedit .

In trying out all those different things I came across geany A wonderful lightweight IDE/Code Editor.

This is looking really good.

It has Third-Party packages, Few Extras and lots of plugins (svn checkout http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geany-plugins/trunk/ geany-plugins-trunk) build them from source and have fun.

Why are these Google pages not consistent?

2009-03-01T16:27:00.008+05:00

I still see 2008 @ the footer of few google apps.
Here are couple of screen shoots:
@ Google Code (Any hosted project e.g able)

@ App Engine:

This might not seem to be a big deal to many, but according to Adam Goucher "A Stale Site is a Buggy Site"..

I know in last few weeks google made into news for not good reasons first there was "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?! Then The Gmail Outage.

Now even the blogger app is showing 2008

...

There is one more funny thing:

I subscribe to a feed and google showed me this funny message

..

Any one else observing this?

GTAC Videos and Slides Available

2008-12-14T02:42:00.001+05:00

Sent to you by mubbashir via Google Reader:

GTAC Videos and Slides Available

via Google Testing Blog by Patrick Copeland on 12/12/08

Posted by Lydia Ash, GTAC Conference Chair

The Google Test Automation Conference 2008 was a smashing success, and in no small part due to all of our presenters and participants. A wonderful thank you from all of us at Google to everyone that participated! The tone of the conference really struck me as I watched how everyone came together around various topics. I don't think we would have had trouble keeping the conversations going if there was an entire day dedicated to the moderated discussions.

We were able to get the slide decks from our presenters. These are listed below with their video link.
We will be evaluating what location the next GTAC should be held, and your comments will help shape the next conference. Building on the successes in the past, next year should be even better! Stay tuned for a Save the Date notice sometime in the spring.

Opening Remarks - Lydia Ash
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QmHXcNk4g

The Future of Testing - James A. Whittaker
Video coming soon...

Advances in Automated Software Testing Technologies - Elfriede Dustin and Marcus Borch
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpSdSyU03I

Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy - Andres Almiray
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvWTfVCWKJY
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/aalmiray/gtac-boosting-your-testing-productivity-with-groovy/

Taming the Beast: How to Test an AJAX Application - Markus Clermont and John Thomas
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jjrTBFZWgk
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_62gccsc9gg

The New Genomics: Software Development at Petabyte Scale - Matt Wood
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64WKH9gNI8
Slides part 1: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_3318qqfb6f5
Slides part 2: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_393d7zg4xcm

Using Cloud Computing to Automate Full-Scale System Tests - Marc-Elian Bégin and Charles Loomis
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyq-41Gnjc
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_251gcv8cbfv

Practicing Testability in the Real World - Vishal Chowdhary
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL829wNaF78
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_0hgd2w5rz

Context-Driven Test Automation: How to Build the System you Really Need - Pete Schneider
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9sm_zcpUEw
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_236ccxj32fd

Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications - Atif M. Memon and Oluwaseun Akinmade
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdsIVvxISU
Slides: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~atif/GTAC08/

The Value of Small Tests - Christopher Semturs
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpG2i_6nkUg
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dckk962d_332cxtcsmhg

JInjector: A Coverage and End-To-End Testing Framework for J2ME and RIM - Julian Harty, Olivier Gaillard, and Michele Sama
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2v5jQ9NLVg
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_82d7w8bqd9

Atom Publishing Protocol: Testing your Server Implementation - David Calavera
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRmWTfT91uQ
Slides: http://thinkincode.net/gtac_atomPub_testing_your_server_implementation.pdf

Simple Tools to Fight the Bigger Quality Battle: Continuous Integration Using Batch Files
and Task Scheduler - Komal Joshi and Patrick Martin
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgP7ejMBCCU
Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dczwht9g_141czcvc7md

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Gearing Up Windows (to make it usable)

2008-11-30T14:53:00.002+05:00

At my workplace I am using Windows Box. I have been using windows since Windows 3.1.x when we use to boot with DOS and then run it to get the GUI. Windows was never this difficult to adjust :( for me.

I have never use windows for my work, I mean I start my career on a Linux box and I just loved it. Customize it the way you like, you always have alternatives for every thing, the community is absolutely wonderful and all of it is open source, Linux is just great specially when you really like to play with software ohh forgot this blog is not about Linux ;).

Due to some environmental constraint I have to use windows, (I have FC 8 as the other booting OS and CentOS in a VM) I was having real hard time on adjusting to windows so I start gearing it up.

I am just listing tools I have install to make windows usable (For me of course):

yod'm 3d: Just can't work without multiple desktop, unfortunately its no longer free-ware, 1.4 is the last free version and its hosted by KLT. My personal experience with Yod'm have been very good, it's a portable application i.e. you don't need to install it and it works straight away.

TrayIt!: Yeah I don't like many application at my Taskbar, I have seen people using 3 even 4 rows taskbar :-0, come on guys use multiple desktop with Tray IT! .
Application which are likely to be accessed from multiple desktops (Your development IDE for instance) should be in system tray, application which just runs in the background (Like real player) should never appear in the taskbar. Tray IT! can do all this (and much more) for you and It is absolutely free.

clipX: Clipboard, yes that's it I just need a good clipboard application and clipX is just great, just press the hotkey and select what to pate.

MoRUN.net Sticker Lite: Instead of using notepad and multiple files to log or temporarily hold things I use sticky notes, again they don't take your taskbar space, you can access them with hotkeys and you don't save as they get saved automatically, MoRUN.net Sticker Lite will do all this fro free.

launchy: Do I really need to say anything? What people still click on start button, click on there desktop icons and use default file manager, with Launchy you just use Hotkeys.

ExplorerXP: I need a tabbed interface File Manager, Its absolutely mandatory I just can't work without a Multi Tab file manager. ExplorerXP Is one such good freeware (for non - commercial use) file manger.

QTTabBar: Multi Tab file manager is so mandatory for me that I have installed two of them, Even if by chance the default file manager is open I can get tabs with QTTabBar. Its an Add-In that gives Tab Browsing Feature to your Explorer. Folder grouping, histories, etc and I love it :). There is just one prerequisite for windowsXP which is Net Framework 2.0 or later should be installed on your system.
My email client is Thunderbird with quite a few addons (reminderfox, Provider for Google Calendar, Lightning, MinimizeToTray, Minimize To Tray Enhancer, Display Mail User Agent to name a few ).

If you are wondering why don't I have screen shoots and all that, I am writing this on Ubuntu 8.10 and I am @ home.

P@SHA ICT 2008 Awards: I am so happy

2008-11-10T00:01:00.006+05:00

We just had P@SHA ICT Awards 2008, I am extremely happy with the outcomes. That was a one cool event, The event was covered by CIO Pakistan, @DrAwab And @Selfexile were twitting the event as it happens and a Live Blog was hosted at Ideas Hut website (futher details ). I am so happy with the event :-).

Why I am this }---||---{ Happy?

Well there are two reasons
1. The company which I have just started working for, got the award for "Best of Digital Media & Entertainment Applications" (WINNER - Converged Media Solutions – PixSense ). But this ain't the primary reason of my happiness (They are an excellent company and were bound to win this :) ), so the the primary reason is reason no 2. which is:
2. The award for Best of Startup Applications. I am a software Testing professional and award was won by "Kraysis" which is to the best of my knowledge the only company in Pakistan, specialized in all kind of Software Testing solution and yes they are the partner of Zephyr in Pakistan.

I posted a Blog about Testing market in Pakistan on 14th august 2007 . As a software tester I know this is what we really miss in Pakistan, companies providing Testing Solutions.

There are bazillion companies around the globe which provide software testing solutions but there aren't many in Pakistan. I am extremely happy atleast there is a company now (actually I am following them for more then a year see my blink ) providing software testing solutions and they are doing great.

They were named in the STARTUP Watch-List by UK based Technomics International, they have partnership with Coverity Inc and Zephyr and yes they have won the award of Best Startup (source: http://www.kraysis.com/Deatilednews%20.php ). As a Software Tester from Pakistan I am so happy to see them grow.

But.. They still miss one thing the really need to mobilize the local Software Testing community. I mean they should arrange workshops, conferences, meetups and all those cool things. I would love to see conferences like GTAC or AST Conferences happing in Pakistan and I would love to play my role in them.

With startup like Kraysis and there growth over the year or so, I am very hopeful about the Software Testing community of Pakistan.

Update: Even more happier :-), both of the above mentioned have won awards at APICTA in Jakarta. PixSense has won the Asia Pacific ICT Award and Kraysis has won the APICTA Award for the Best Startup in the Asia/Pacific region.
Further details.

Sauce Labs Inc - accelerate Selenium and web application functional testing

2008-11-09T03:56:00.001+05:00

Sauce Labs Inc - accelerate Selenium and web application functional testing

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Changing Subversion credentials in Hudson

2008-09-20T07:52:00.005+06:00

I was in a need of changing the Credentials of subversion for a project, unfortunately i was not able to find any straight forward link in manage panel. So the Quick hack to achieve this is:

go to http://[Hudson_Home]/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/enterCredential
Enter the URL of subversion repository
Click on Username/password authentication
Enter User name and password for the repository
press OK

thats it.

So in my experience there is an inverse relationship between certification and testing talent -J Whittaker

2008-09-13T01:29:00.001+06:00

"So in my experience there is an inverse relationship between certification and testing talent." -J Whittaker
http://blogs.msdn.com/james_whittaker/archive/2008/09/11/on-certificiation.aspx
Such an important Statement by Such a Great Tester, got to post a following link :-)
Regards,
----------------------------------
Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
"I do not make Softwares, I make them better"

Evaluating Continuous Integration: Itself

2008-08-27T04:14:00.001+06:00

I am not writing about how to evaluate a CI Server, if one needs to evaluate them the best resource I can suggest is CI Feature Matrix just list out your requirements before going to this page, and see which one is the best fit for you. Just for the idea of current state of CIS see What Continuous Integration Server are you using in 2008?.

Evaluating CI Server is not the important part: Once we have decided that we will have a CI server in-place, personally I don't think evaluating the CI server is the important part , I have played with quite a few continues integration servers (just to name a few: cruise control, continum, luntbuild, Hudson and Bamboo), while playing with them I realize that every single one of them dose the same basic thing really well. All of them will check out source from a Source Control Management system, will build the code in one or another way and will run/publish results of your tests. ITs what you want to do with the CI server.

The Important Part, Evaluating Continuous Integration: Yeah we need to Evaluate Continuous Integration Itself. Continuous Integration is not just an activity or state but a Philosophy, a culture which is foster by agile methodology, to integrate and test the code more frequently to find out bugs when it’s less expensive to fix them. Are you and your team comfortable with it? Have you spend enough time with the team to let them know the importance and advantages of it? have you trained them how will they carry out there work from now onwards? are you keeping an eye on the state of builds? are people writing Unit Tests at the very first place? and so on.. make your self comfortable with Continuous Integration.

Open Source To rescue: Don't invest on any commercial tool straight away just because you think it will be cool, its not a tool you are looking for its the process. Use open source tools to introduce CI, to prepare your team for CI (you might like the open source alternatives so much that you might stick to them) make CI a part of development cycle and "Evaluate CI for your team and your team for CI". This will help you to refine requirements but more importantly you will know who needs the Improvement they way CI is being conducted or your team. This Evaluating CI can be done in two possible ways: 1. By using complete open source solution: (e.g Hudson with code analysis tools like cobertura, PMD and FindBugs) 2. By using Evolutionary copy of a commercial CI Server: (e.g Bamboo with code analysis tools like clover/ cobertura, PMD and FindBugs)

What are your waiting for Start Evaluating...

Need to know about Continuous Integration go to Martin Fowler Continuous Integration or buy Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

GotConnected Compiz fusion no my 6720s

2008-05-03T23:07:00.007+05:00

I have just got a 512 kbs DSL connection thanks to my elder brother Muddassir, I was anxiously waiting for this and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS HardyHeron.
I have just isntalled it on my HP 6720s notebook with compiz-fusion and AWN. Its SWeeeet, I am so very happy with all of this.
Have a look.

Sync reminder Fox toDos and Reminders between thunderbird and firefox

2008-04-08T12:24:00.001+05:00

Yeap we all wants to have one todo list, I always put my todos and
reminders in thunderbird but certainly wants to see them in fire fox,
this thing is inbuilt in reminderfox :-)
just change the default file location of firefox's reminder fox with
thunderbirds file.
default file location

Thunderbird's reminder fox file is placed at:
/root/.thunderbird/x6rjxwwf.default/reminderfox/reminderfox.ics

Thunderbird's file location

thats it, now I can add from any of the two and can see them in both apps
this is great!!

Use Time Stamp to Create Files or Folder Using Ant

2008-03-20T04:41:00.002+05:00

Every now and then we come across a situation where we are in a need of creating folder with the name of time stamp so that we can keep record of every execution, don't we ;-) ?
Its fairly easy to accomplish this in Ant
use tstamp task.
This is how a set a property "START_TIME" and use it to create that file/folder.
<tstamp>
<format property="START_TIME" pattern="dd_MMM_yy_HH_mm_ss"/>
</tstamp>

Like
<property name="testresults-folder" value="${START_TIME}_TestResults"/>
and create a folder by this property
<mkdir dir="${testresults-folder}"/>

'Testers Are Idiots'

2008-03-07T22:52:00.001+05:00

Testers are Idiots
It starts by saing: That’s right: "Testers are idiots. The practice of testing offers no innovation. Testing is boring, manual and repetitive. It’s not a career. Testers aren’t as smart as developers. They’re nit-picky, pencil-pushing quality/process geeks. They’re beside the point and are easily replaced. Testing is not a career; it’s a necessary evil between application users and the brilliance of developers."
These statements are from an audience of testers..

Surprised??
Not really !!

Changing the Default editor for your terminal

2008-01-10T03:01:00.002+05:00

You can change the default editor by setting the EDITOR environment variable. In BASH. This default editor is most of the time invoked by -e switch.
To see what is the current EDITOR.

# set | grep EDITOR EDITOR=/bin/nano # which vi (shows the full path of (shell) command vi ) /usr/bin/vi # export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi verify the current EDITOR # set | grep EDITOR EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi

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WiPeer Create peer-to-peer ad-hoc wireless network

2007-12-13T01:08:00.001+05:00

Last weekend My brother and I were trying to create a peer-to-peer ad-hoc wireless network but the experience wasn't turned out successful. wiipeer guys have make it so very easy. Thanks guys!!
wiipeer

Technorati Profile

2007-12-12T02:00:00.000+05:00

<a href="http://technorati.com/claim/b5c4mfqpkg" rel="me">Technorati
Profile</a>

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Fix Firefox "Unresponsive Script" warnings

2007-09-25T01:20:00.001+05:00

Recently i was facing this problem while writing some Automated Web Functional testing using selenium that firefox pops a warning for unresponsive script (for some how i had to use Thread.sleep(1000)).

This is not only annoying but also hearts the efforts for producing unattended scripts.

Google again come to rescue and i got this from. So the solution goes like:
Go the hidden configuration page in Firefox by typing about:config in the address bar . (make sure that you are doing this for the profile you are using for selenium)
In the 'Filter' box, type script_run_time. This will narrow the options to dom.max_script_run_time and dom.max_chrome_script_run_time.

Right-click it and choose Modify. A box pops up. Change the number to something bigger like 40. This is the maximum time a script can run before Firefox considers it 'unresponsive'.

If you can’t find the string in the about:config page, create it by right-clicking anywhere and then choose New—> Integer and enter there name.

Training videos for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers

2007-09-11T00:17:00.001+05:00

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Lately I've been doing Web service testing using Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers. When I started testing using Team Edition, the features available in the "Software Testers" version were new to me and very confusing. I was able to quickly overcome my inexperience with a set of videos found at ASP.net. There are 27 in all, and the series is entitled: Videos on how to improve the quality and integrity of your software solutions. I didn't watch every one of them but I intend to. Check 'em out if you're just getting started with VS 2005 for Software Testers and I guarantee it'll give you a serious boost and make you productive a lot faster.

There is also a great video series available on MSDN entitled How Do I?. They have a specific subset based on testing entitled: How Do I: Use .NET Code to Customize Coded Web Tests?

Avoid the fumbling around and watch somebody do it first. It makes things so much easier!

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Geek To Live: Power replacements for built-in Windows utilities

2007-08-15T01:11:00.001+05:00

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Geek To Live: Power replacements for built-in Windows utilities

via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on Aug 10, 2007

How many times have you wished Notepad had tabs, Paint supported layers or Windows Explorer let you bookmark frequently-used folders? Power users need power utilities, and Windows' default system programs barely get the job done. Over time third-party developers have stepped up and built superior replacements to programs like Notepad, Paint, Windows Explorer and the Command Prompt. Get the simple jobs done smarter, faster and more efficiently with some of the best Windows utility power replacements - all of which are free downloads.

Built-in: Notepad
Power replacement: Notepad++
What you get: Tabbed, multiple document windows and support for lots more beyond plain text - like HTML and other programming languages, with code and markup collapsibility and plugins. Free and open source.

Built in: Windows Explorer
Power replacement: Xplorer2
What you get: What don't you get? Three-panel tabbed interface, the folder set bookmarking and full FTP support to name a few features. See more on replacing Windows Explorer with Xplorer 2. Free version available with paid upgrade.

Built in: Paint
Power replacement: Paint.NET
What you get: Open multiple images in one window and edit image layers, remove red eye and Ctrl+Z to your heart's content with a history of undoable actions. Freeware.

Built in: Alt-Tab
Power replacement: Alt-Tab PowerToy
What you get: Dynamic window previews (versus the plain old application icon) for more informative switching. Free download from Microsoft.

Built in: Taskbar date and time
Power replacement: QuickMonth
What you get: A monthly calendar pops up directly from the taskbar just by hovering over it with your mouse, avoiding the "Adjust date and time" click. Freeware.

Built in: Add/Remove Programs (in Control Panel)
Power replacement: Revo Uninstaller or My Uninstaller
What you get: Fast one-click program removal that scrubs all traces of the software from your system. Both are free.

Built in: Start menu and Run box
Power replacement: Launchy
What you get: Start programs, web site URL's, run commands or open documents from the Launchy, er, launcher. See more on how to take Launchy beyond application launching, tweak Launchy to your liking and run terminal commands in Launchy.

Built in: Task manager
Power replacement: Process Explorer
What you get: Get more information about that process that's hanging your PC with Process Explorer, which lists which DLL's tasks use and offers a handy Google search for a process name within its interface. Freeware.

Built in: Wifi network detector
Power replacement: NetStumbler
What you get: When Windows' built-in wireless network detector is slow - or simply not seeing the network everyone sitting around you can - grab NetStumbler, which can even detect networks that don't broadcast their SSID, with signal strength and encryption status.

Built in: Command Prompt
Power replacement: Cygwin (for Unix interface) or PowerShell
What you get: More commands - and more familiar commands, for those of us who work on *nix platforms when we're not on Windows - are available in the Cygwin Unix emulator and Microsoft's own new PowerShell command prompt apps. Wanna get good with Cygwin? Check out our tutorials: part 1, part 2, and part 3. Cygwin users should also check out Poderosa for tabbed terminal fun. Both are free downloads.

Built in: Windows Task Scheduler
Power replacement: Xecutor
What you get: Manage your startup and shutdown as well as scheduled tasks while your PC is on. Free download.

Built in: Windows Explorer archive extractor
Power replacement: 7-Zip or ALZip
What you get: Windows can only handle vanilla .zip files on its own, but 7-Zip and ALZip can extract and bundle any kind of archive file you throw at it. Free.

Built in: Windows Explorer file copy operation
Power replacement: TeraCopy
What you get: Speedier, pausable, practically fail-proof file copying, especially useful when you're transferring huge sets of files between folders. Free.

Built in: Defrag
Power replacement: JkDefrag GUI
What you get: Scheduled defrags, file optimization, and the option to include/exclude directories, plus a screensaver that visualizes your defrag when your PC is idle and hasn't been defragged for a user-defined amount of time. Free.

Built in: Calculator
Power replacement: Power Calculator
What you get: Graph and evaluate functions, and perform conversions in this mathlete's dream calculator.

On a Windows tweaking tear? Check out our previous features, Top 10 free Windows downloads and Top Windows tweaks.

What are your favorite Windows utility power replacements? Let us know in the comments.

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Testing market in Pakistan.

2007-08-14T05:13:00.003+05:00

at http://club.drivenqa.com/ Ahsan Choudry asked me about the Testing market in Pakistan.
(update: club.drivenqa.com now have its own domain this thread can be seen here)
Below is my reply to him on this:

Before sharing my point of view I really want to know how do you see it?
Well it is growing as now organizations are looking for Software Tester. I am doing Software Testing for around Two years now, and I know some great developers in Pakistan but unfortunately i haven't came across many Testers. I am pretty sure that there will be(or there should be) software testers in every organization which develop softwares but i don't see them around on line and a simple googling can reveal it .
But there are people who are doing software testing see the google trends, we(The Testers of Pakistan) are just not verbal enough!
(Update Pakistan Rank 2 by that time)
for me the reason for this is we do not have many institutions teaching Software Testing. When your words are not backed up by your education you wait for you experience to back them up. I am pretty sure you will see more and more Pakistani Testers online pretty soon as our experience will become our Teacher..
The Bottom line is Market is growing, Organizations have Software Testers, They are hiring more and more Testers but we(The Testers) haven't started claiming our cyberspace yet.

If you ask the question in this way, you're going to do bad testing. (---Michael B.)

2007-08-08T22:36:00.001+05:00

> I need to test a parser which takes a .txt file as input (837 health
> care claim) and gives the output as a java claim object.

> Now i have to compare the content of the output against input, and
> check whether the parsing is happening correctly.

> How can I use scripting language(Perl, Ruby, Python) to automate it?
> Which one will be better to use.

If you ask the question in this way, I can practically guarantee that
you're going to do bad testing.

First, ask: What do I want to test? What problems could I anticipate
here? What mistake might the developers have made? What Bad Thing
would happen if something were missing? If something were too long?
Not long enough? Not in the correct format? Not following the rules
of the protocol? Not following the correct structure for the
object?...and so forth.

THEN ask "How could tools help me to recognize a problem?"

There is almost always /some/ value in picking up a tool and trying to
use it without understanding what you want to use it /for/ (I have a
hammer; now what can I build with it?), but you're more likely to use
the tool properly if you have some kind of motivating question in mind
first.

---Michael B.

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Learning: Research something better with a schedule

2007-08-07T04:55:00.001+05:00

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Learning: Research something better with a schedule

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Productivity blog Lifehack.org has written up a great post on how to really organize your research, especially from a student perspective. The best tip is to work with a schedule of tasks that you need to accomplish.

Absolutely, this was my downfall for every research paper I ever tackled. A schedule of tasks - find 5 sources by this date, gather bibliography sources by this date, etc. - is so infinitely easier to do than my preferred method, which usually ended in a few all-nighters. How do you tackle big research projects - what's your best tip for getting to done? Thoughts in the comments.

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Featured Linux Download: Roll your own Ubuntu live CD with Reconstructor

2007-07-13T04:13:00.001+05:00

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Featured Linux Download: Roll your own Ubuntu live CD with Reconstructor

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Linux only: Free open-source app Reconstructor creates custom Ubuntu-based live CDs. Have you settled on the perfect Ubuntu installation that you wish you could take from computer-to-computer? Reconstructor offers up a GUI that lets you do exactly this. Reconstructor customizes the packages and modules included in the installation, the included art-work and much more. After you choose all that you want bundled into your Live CD, Reconstructor generates a burnable ISO of your newly created OS. Reconstructor is a free download for Linux only.

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IN BRIEF: Forgot the password to your beloved Mac? ...

2007-07-13T03:16:00.001+05:00

Gash! i dont have mac so cant try this out :)

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IN BRIEF: Forgot the password to your beloved Mac? ...

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Forgot the password to your beloved Mac? Hackaddict.net shows how you can reset your password without the OS X installation discs.

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Add face recognition login with BananaScreen

2007-07-13T03:12:00.001+05:00

sounds good :)

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Featured Windows Download: Add face recognition login with BananaScreen

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Windows only: Like the future? Freeware application BananaScreen adds face recognition login to your webcam-enabled Windows computer. To use, just install BananaScreen and create a face model. Then set up BananaScreen to lock after a predefined amount of inactivity (or hit Alt-L to lock at any time). Once locked, BananaScreen will keep an eye on faces coming and going in front of the camera. When it matches yours, it immediately unlocks your computer. Cool, right?

Well... yes, but not entirely foolproof. It's still a beta app, and I wouldn't trust it as a truly secure solution at this point. I tried taking a picture of myself and then using the picture to log in (see screenshot), which didn't fool BananaScreen, but a less hastily thrown together picture might work fine (it did recognize that the picture was of a face). That probably means that someone would have to make a concerted effort to break into your computer, taking pictures of you on the sly, or maybe just grabbing the family portrait. If you're not really worried about that, this is a very fun login tool. In all of my tests it recognized my face very quickly and accurately, but if your facial login doesn't work for some reason, you can still use your regular password.

Granted, if movies have taught us anything it's that security measures like face recognition, retinal scans, and handprint scans can still be easily circumvented once you've been killed and the appropriate body part has been removed, but at that point--fine, if the RIAA is that desperate to see what I've been BitTorrenting, they can knock themselves out.

BananaScreen is free to download, currently Windows only (though the site claims a Mac version will be available soon). In the meantime, Mac users might want to try locking their computer when they walk away with their Bluetooth phone.

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Sloppy - the slow proxy will give the experince of Dial Ups

2007-07-04T08:38:00.000+05:00

Sloppy will give you the experience of very low internet band width

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Prospective Testing vs. Inspective Testing

2007-07-02T23:21:00.000+05:00

Antony Marcano's blog

Now we have divided Testing activities in two different kind of testing
form Antony's blog:

“Inspective Testing” helps us to understand more about the product we’ve built.

“Prospective Testing” helps us to understand more about what we expect from the product we are about to build.

Though we all are aware of theme and this is really how we organize them lets just have two domains for them.

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Your Page Here gadget (use any page as one of your iGoogle tabs)

2007-06-30T05:08:00.000+05:00

Your Page Here gadget!
This is just great closing the gaps between google apps.
Like the writer i love to have my Google reader in a tab of my iGoogle

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Xming X Server for Windows run linux apps in Windows

2007-06-30T04:32:00.000+05:00

Xming X Server for Windows
Sounds pretty good, i haven't tried this one yet but sooner or latter i will try it. :-)

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From the Mailbox(Elisabeth Hendrickson:-) What’s the Definition of Testing?

2007-06-29T07:07:00.000+05:00

From the Mailbox: What's the Definition of Testing?

The good thing about the post is, it is not in the form of a debate ;), peoples are commenting in order to express there view not to challenge any other's view.

If this has to serve why do we test? then the first and foremost answer for both of these will be

In his 1979 book The Art of Software Testing, Glenford Myers said, "Testing is the process of executing a program with the intent of finding errors."

Kaner, Falk and Nguyen agreed in their 1999 book, Testing Computer Software (2nd Ed): "The purpose of testing a program is to find problems in it."

Is this the only thing we do? find bugs..
so let it be more generic
as James Bach' told us

"Testing: questioning a product in order to evaluate it (Bach version);

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Google Desktop now available for Linux

2007-06-29T00:37:00.000+05:00

Google Desktop now available for Linux

download

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Some Non-Functional Testing Tools Thanks to Disco Blog

2007-06-23T03:51:00.000+05:00

These are the Recommended unit/module level testing tools form Andrew Glover (The co-author of Java Testing Patterns ) at his Blog.

Test results
- The meaningful data here is the number of tests run and the number of failures. Both JUnit and the ever so hip TestNG framework report this data quite effectively.
Code coverage
- Tools like Cobertura report how much of the code is actually exercised by tests.
Complexity
- JavaNCSS and PMD nicely flag methods with high Cyclomatic complexities.
Code size
- JavaNCSS and PMD also report code sizes data. JavaNCSS indicates the number of classes, methods, lines of code and PMD can report classes and methods that are considered too big. This is closely related to complexity too.
Coupling
- JDepend reports how many package dependencies are within a code base.
Duplication
- Tools like Simian and PMD’s CPD indicate how much of the code is copied and pasted.
Coding standards
- FindBugs, PMD, and CheckStyle report violations to predefined rules that may indicate possible defects or maintenance challenges.

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james Blog enrty against Tesing Certifications

2007-06-09T03:24:00.001+05:00

Against Certifications

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An A-Z Index of the Windows NT/XP command line

2007-06-09T03:24:00.000+05:00

Thanks to MHO ..

An A-Z Index of the Windows NT/XP command line

ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASSOC Change file extension associations
ASSOCIAT One step file association
AT Schedule a command to run at a later time
ATTRIB Change file attributes

BOOTCFG Edit Windows boot settings
BROWSTAT Get domain, browser and PDC info

CACLS Change file permissions
CALL Call one batch program from another
CD Change Directory - move to a specific Folder
CHANGE Change Terminal Server Session properties
CHKDSK Check Disk - check and repair disk problems
CHKNTFS Check the NTFS file system
CHOICE Accept keyboard input to a batch file
CIPHER Encrypt or Decrypt files/folders
CleanMgr Automated cleanup of Temp files, recycle bin
CLEARMEM Clear memory leaks
CLIP Copy STDIN to the Windows clipboard.
CLS Clear the screen
CLUSTER Windows Clustering
CMD Start a new CMD shell
COLOR Change colors of the CMD window
COMP Compare the contents of two files or sets of files
COMPACT Compress files or folders on an NTFS partition
COMPRESS Compress individual files on an NTFS partition
CON2PRT Connect or disconnect a Printer
CONVERT Convert a FAT drive to NTFS.
COPY Copy one or more files to another location
CSVDE Import or Export Active Directory data

DATE Display or set the date
Dcomcnfg DCOM Configuration Utility
DEFRAG Defragment hard drive
DEL Delete one or more files
DELPROF Delete NT user profiles
DELTREE Delete a folder and all subfolders
DevCon Device Manager Command Line Utility
DIR Display a list of files and folders
DIRUSE Display disk usage
DISKCOMP Compare the contents of two floppy disks
DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one floppy disk to another
DNSSTAT DNS Statistics
DOSKEY Edit command line, recall commands, and create macros
DSADD Add user (computer, group..) to active directory
DSQUERY List items in active directory
DSMOD Modify user (computer, group..) in active directory

ECHO Display message on screen
ENDLOCAL End localisation of environment changes in a batch file
ERASE Delete one or more files
EXIT Quit the CMD shell
EXPAND Uncompress files
EXTRACT Uncompress CAB files

FC Compare two files
FDISK Disk Format and partition
FIND Search for a text string in a file
FINDSTR Search for strings in files
FOR Conditionally perform a command several times
FORFILES Batch process multiple files
FORMAT Format a disk
FREEDISK Check free disk space (in bytes)
FSUTIL File and Volume utilities
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTYPE Display or modify file types used in file extension associations

GLOBAL Display membership of global groups
GOTO Direct a batch program to jump to a labelled line

HELP Online Help
HFNETCHK Network Security Hotfix Checker

IF Conditionally perform a command
IFMEMBER Is the current user in an NT Workgroup
IPCONFIG Configure IP

KILL Remove a program from memory

LABEL Edit a disk label
LOCAL Display membership of local groups
LOGEVENT Write text to the NT event viewer.
LOGOFF Log a user off
LOGTIME Log the date and time in a file

MAPISEND Send email from the command line
MEM Display memory usage
MD Create new folders
MODE Configure a system device
MORE Display output, one screen at a time
MOUNTVOL Manage a volume mount point
MOVE Move files from one folder to another
MOVEUSER Move a user from one domain to another
MSG Send a message
MSIEXEC Microsoft Windows Installer
MSINFO Windows NT diagnostics
MSTSC Terminal Server Connection (Remote Desktop Protocol)
MUNGE Find and Replace text within file(s)
MV Copy in-use files

NET Manage network resources
NETDOM Domain Manager
NETSH Configure network protocols
NETSVC Command-line Service Controller
NBTSTAT Display networking statistics (NetBIOS over TCP/IP)
NETSTAT Display networking statistics (TCP/IP)
NOW Display the current Date and Time
NSLOOKUP Name server lookup
NTBACKUP Backup folders to tape
NTRIGHTS Edit user account rights

PATH Display or set a search path for executable files
PATHPING Trace route plus network latency and packet loss
PAUSE Suspend processing of a batch file and display a message
PERMS Show permissions for a user
PERFMON Performance Monitor
PING Test a network connection
POPD Restore the previous value of the current directory saved by PUSHD
PORTQRY Display the status of ports and services
PRINT Print a text file
PRNCNFG Display, configure or rename a printer
PRNMNGR Add, delete, list printers set the default printer
PROMPT Change the command prompt
PsExec Execute process remotely
PsFile Show files opened remotely
PsGetSid Display the SID of a computer or a user
PsInfo List information about a system
PsKill Kill processes by name or process ID
PsList List detailed information about processes
PsLoggedOn Who's logged on (locally or via resource sharing)
PsLogList Event log records
PsPasswd Change account password
PsService View and control services
PsShutdown Shutdown or reboot a computer
PsSuspend Suspend processes
PUSHD Save and then change the current directory

QGREP Search file(s) for lines that match a given pattern.

RASDIAL Manage RAS connections
RASPHONE Manage RAS connections
RECOVER Recover a damaged file from a defective disk.
REG Read, Set or Delete registry keys and values
REGEDIT Import or export registry settings
REGSVR32 Register or unregister a DLL
REGINI Change Registry Permissions
REM Record comments (remarks) in a batch file
REN Rename a file or files.
REPLACE Replace or update one file with another
RD Delete folder(s)
RDISK Create a Recovery Disk
RMTSHARE Share a folder or a printer
ROBOCOPY Robust File and Folder Copy
ROUTE Manipulate network routing tables
RUNAS Execute a program under a different user account
RUNDLL32 Run a DLL command (add/remove print connections)

SC Service Control
SCHTASKS Create or Edit Scheduled Tasks
SCLIST Display NT Services
ScriptIt Control GUI applications
SET Display, set, or remove environment variables
SETLOCAL Begin localisation of environment changes in a batch file
SETX Set environment variables permanently
SHARE List or edit a file share or print share
SHIFT Shift the position of replaceable parameters in a batch file
SHORTCUT Create a windows shortcut (.LNK file)
SHOWGRPS List the NT Workgroups a user has joined
SHOWMBRS List the Users who are members of a Workgroup
SHUTDOWN Shutdown the computer
SLEEP Wait for x seconds
SOON Schedule a command to run in the near future
SORT Sort input
START Start a separate window to run a specified program or command
SU Switch User
SUBINACL Edit file and folder Permissions, Ownership and Domain
SUBST Associate a path with a drive letter
SYSTEMINFO List system configuration

TASKLIST List running applications and services
TIME Display or set the system time
TIMEOUT Delay processing of a batch file
TITLE Set the window title for a CMD.EXE session
TOUCH Change file timestamps
TRACERT Trace route to a remote host
TREE Graphical display of folder structure
TYPE Display the contents of a text file

USRSTAT List domain usernames and last login

VER Display version information
VERIFY Verify that files have been saved
VOL Display a disk label

WHERE Locate and display files in a directory tree
WHOAMI Output the current UserName and domain
WINDIFF Compare the contents of two files or sets of files
WINMSD Windows system diagnostics
WINMSDP Windows system diagnostics II

WMIC WMI Commands

XCACLS Change file permissions
XCOPY Copy files and folders

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Run linux app in Windows, MAC OS X

2007-06-09T03:23:00.000+05:00

LINA http://www.openlina.com/index.html looks very promising lets see
how can we make the most of it

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Super Duper Pic great work

2007-06-09T03:21:00.000+05:00

Super Duper Pic great work

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Assign Keybord Short cuts to Terminal commands in KDE

2007-06-09T03:20:00.000+05:00

I was trying to do this for couple of Days, i even tried adding my command as an item in kmenuedit and assign short cut to it but that was taking way too much of time as it keeps showing the bouncy mouse pointer of in use :-( .
Here it how you really assign keyboard shortcut your command.

Launch Kcontrol (Control Center) under Regional and Accessibility go to Input Action
Add a new Action with Action Type as Keyboard Shortcut ->Command/URL(Simple)
Select A Keyboard Short cut for it in Keyboard Shortcut Tab
Type your command in Command/URL settings Tab
Apply and enjoy

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2007-04-20T00:58:00.001+05:00

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