Today is 1st April, and Google launched Google Venture. It might be a possible Google Prank that Google plays every year on 1st April.
The reason being, doing such a thing close to 1st April with such an interesting topic, Google might be playing big with people.
I'm not sure though :-) and might be wrong. Let's wait and see, what happens.
Update: Some more possible google pranks this year are
This Codeocolate (Code + Chocolate = Codeocolate ), presents a killer text parsing javascript. Our killer javascript does the following 7 tasks while parsing the text:
Let's consider each of the 7 task one by one:
Grabbing the text to parse:
var textToParse = new String(form.textToParse.value);
Dissection:
form.textToParse.value is the text contained in HTML textarea control, that needs to be parsed.
new String(form.textToParse.value) creates a string using form.textToParse.value and assigns it to a variable textToParse.
Converting everything to lowercase:
textToParse = textToParse.toLowerCase();
Dissection:
textToParse.toLowerCase() returns a string with all lowercase characters.
Removing numbers and special characters:
var regex = /[`~!@#$%^&*()_+={}|:";'<>,.?0-9]+/g;
textToParse = textToParse.replace(regex, "");
Dissection:
First, a regex representing all the special characters and numbers is defined. Then, all the special characters and numbers are removed from the string.
Splitting the string into of individual words
regex = /\s+/;
var arr = textToParse.split(regex);
Dissection:
First, a regex representing one or more space is defined. Then, using regex we split the string into an array of words and store inside arr.
Removing duplicates
for ( i = 0 ; i < arr.length-1 ; i++ )
{
for ( j = i + 1 ; j < arr.length ; j++ )
{
if ( arr[i] == arr[j] )
{
arr[j] = '';
}
}
}
Converting array back to string
var killerOutput = new String();
killerOutput = arr.toString();
Putting each word on its own line
var regex = /[,]+/g;
killerOutput = killerOutput.replace(regex,"\n");
Dissection:
Using regex we insert a newline character ('\n') after each word.
Printing the Killer Output!
form.killerOutput.value = killerOutput;
Dissection:
Setting the text of form.killerOutput HTML textarea to killerOutput string.
The source for the above Codeocolate can be downloaded from here.
Hope, you found this killer Codeocolate useful. Cheers.
Time is among those things in the universe that never stops. On Friday, Feb 13 at exactly 3:31:30 PM Pacific Standard Time the Unix Time will equal 1234567890.
For Indians, this amazing moment will come on an amazing day, The Valentines Day i.e. Feb 14, at 5:01:30 AM Indian Standard Time.
The moment will work like an additive in the love enriched environment of Valentines Day, with the Unix lovers and fans joining too in the celebration.
By the way, for folks who do not know what Unix Time is, it is the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970.
"" "\\K"
"" "+++ATH0"
SAY "GPRS disconnected."
Finally, we have to create /etc/ppp/peers/BluetoothPhone
/dev/rfcomm0 # Bluetooth modem
115200 # speed
defaultroute # use the cellular network for the default route
usepeerdns # use the DNS servers from the remote network
nodetach # keep pppd in the foreground
crtscts # hardware flow control
lock # lock the serial port
noauth # don't expect the modem to authenticate itself
local # don't use Carrier Detect or Data Terminal Ready
replacedefaultroute
debug
# Use the next two lines if you receive the dreaded messages:
#
# No response to n echo-requests
# Serial link appears to be disconnected.
# Connection terminated.
#
lcp-echo-failure 4
lcp-echo-interval 65535
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -V -f /etc/chatscripts/BluetoothPhone"
disconnect "/usr/sbin/chat -V -f /etc/chatscripts/BluetoothPhone-Disconnect"
Connecting to the Internet
Now to connect to the Internet, type the command sudo pppd call BluetoothPhone. Internet can be disconnected anytime by pressing Ctrl+C.
