Srini's Point of View

My thoughts on technology, food and other fancies…

First warm weekend of 2010

What a phenomenal weekend! It was nice and sunny and the best part was it was not too hot!

Food wise it was a great weekend too.. Friday night we went to Aegean in Framingham. Their bread basket had fresh baked bread and Pita bread. This came with olive oil …

A better cygwin terminal - rxvt

rxvt is so much more better than the default cygwin terminal. You will thank me once you switch to using rxvt. To get rxvt working without starting an X Server, just create a shortcut using the following -

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg green -bg black -fn "Lucida Console-14" -e …

Grep for multiple stuff in one file

Update: See the comments to see how to do this correctly.

the UNIX grep command is very powerful, but the egrep command is even more powerful. You can grep for multiple strings in a file using the egrep command. All you have to do is use the | (or) symbol and …

Find user details on windows user in a domain

Here is a quick tip - If you want to find out details on a user account on windows inside a particular domain use the following command on a DOS prompt

net user username /domain

where the username is the username of the account you want more information on. You can …