IE inside Firefox…

Thought of posting about this for a quite long period. Finally did it. I always prefer firefox rather than Internet Explorer. But for some sites I was forced to use IE because of their poor web designing. I feel irritated to open different browsers for each site. So started of searching the way of using firefox as IE. Thus got IE Tab plugin for Firefox. Though it is installed from IE view, IMHO it is better than IE view. Because IE view opens a IE tagged page in a new IE window whereas IE tab opens in a new tab of Firefox. Also it is released under GPL. Though it has some bugs they are not much affecting me. IE Tab could be installed by clicking here.

Smileys turn 25… :)

After CD’s it is smiley’s turn to age 25. Smileys are used as generic term to show emotions. It was first created to show pleasure and displeasure. Now it has become a culture to express every emotions through smileys with various image representations. It was found by Scott Fahlman. He used smileys to show emotions in CMU bulletin board. Eventhough Kevin Mackenzie has tried to simulate smileys in a different way his efforts went in vain. Kevin tried “-)” to represent “tongue in cheek”. It doesn’t work well. But Scott used “:-)” to show pleasure and “:-(” to show displeasure. It gains popularity also because of the internet boom. I found this link giving more smileys and their meaning…

Exporting Data to text file in Postgres:

Recently i was asked to export data from postgresql to a text file. Tried many tricks. But they didnt. Atlast the syntax given the following works properly.

test=>\o /home/sample.txt(i.e the path of the text file which should be already created)
test=>query that wants to be executed will be given here;
test=>\o

The first \o is similar to opening the output stream  which should give the name of the text file with full path. A text file will not be created by giving this. It just redirects the output stream to the file. So the text file should be created already.In the next sentence the query that needs to be executed will be given and in the third line the output stream is closed.

FOSS @ Syllabus

It is the happiest news for people who have some attachment towards FOSS. Our college has introduced FOSS as default elective for final year CSE students. It will be very interesting to study those stuffs. Another reason to cherish is, We are the first batch in TCE to study FOSS in syllabus. Looking forward to study in syllabus. Cheers.:).