Excel 2010 Drag and fill Option

1. Go to File > Options > Advanced > Enable file handle and cell drag-and-drop
2. Enable the check box

Removal of delta-homes home page search in firefox

Unwanted Delta-homes search has come up in firefox.

1. Tried removing unwanted programs from control panel
2. Reset the strings that had delta-homes string in  about:config settings of firefox
3. Removed the unwanted extensions Tools->Addons->extensions

The thing that finally worked is in windows shortcut from desktop/start menu go to properties(by right clicking the shortcut).

While invoking the firefox.exe it appends the website name string into the exe file name which opens up that page.Removal of the unwanted strings helped.

KDE Taskbar configuration to show windows only from current desktop

1. Right-click an empty spot on your kicker panel at the bottom of the screen and choose Configure Panel.
2. In the Configure KDE Panel window choose Taskbar
3. Of the many helpful Taskbar options, the one we want right now is to uncheck the Show windows from all desktops option near the top.
4. Click Apply and OK.

Mising task bar in KDE session

On a KDE session suddenly the Task bars disappeared. To get it back open a console and use command kicker

vim tip to delete lines between braces

Keep the cursor @ the first '{' then do di} => This means delete inner till }

current shell in unix

How to find out which shell you are using in linux/unix
   Type echo $SHELL
 It shall list the shell being used currently

aligned attribute in RVCT

The aligned variable attribute specifies a minimum alignment for the variable or structure field, measured in bytes.

/* aligns on 4 byte boundary for ARM */

short Variable_Attributes_aligned_1[3] __attribute__ ((aligned));

/* aligned on 16 byte boundary */

int Variable_Attributes_aligned_0 __attribute__ ((aligned (16)));

This makes sure that the variable is placed in 4 byte aligned boundary.

Source:

ARM RVCT Reference guide