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Archive for December 4, 2007
India has 4th Fastest Supercomputer!!!!!!!!
Dec 4th
India is at Position 4 in world Super Computer ranking according to top500‘s list of November 2007 with 117.9TFlop/sComputational Research Laboratories located at Pune owned by TATA SONS has this system, well here is what top500 had to say
For the first time ever, India placed a system in the Top 10. The Computational Research Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. in Pune, India, installed a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system. They integrated this system with their own innovative routing technology and achieved 117.9 TFlop/s performance.
So finally India made to top10 but surely there are a large number of things to come……………
Twit from command line (Linux)
Dec 4th
Here is a thing that i found during searching for a completely different things, you can update your Twitter status simply by using curl which is most of the time installed by default so here is the command
/usr/bin/curl -u username:password -d status="your tweet" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
it simply updates your twitter status, this is extremely simple and could easily be used to update status, but the problem is that it contains your password and you dont want to display your password so you can make a simple script for it which asks you for the tweet and displays if successful or not
#!/bin/sh
echo Post your tweet.......
read tweet
/usr/bin/curl -u <username>:<password> -d status="$tweet" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
if [[ "$?" == 0 ]];
then
echo Updated successfuly!!!!
exit 0
else
echo Something went wrong try again!!!!
exit 1
fi
to make it just login as root by ‘sudo -i’ or ‘su’ and type gedit /usr/local/bin/twit now paste the script and replace <username> and <password> with username and password of your twitter account and save the file, we will change the permissions for the file and make it executable by typing chmod +x /usr/local/bin/twit all done now when you want to twit just type twit on command line and let the world know what you are doing.
PS:- if you are on twitter feel free to add me http://twitter.com/ankur
