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Workaround for Xming and SAP sapinst blank screen issue

When using Xming to display the SAP sapinst gui on a Windows box, the window will be blank. There are a lot of discussions about this issue (e.g. http://scn.sap.com/thread/1913601).

For RHEL I have found the following workaround:

How to pretty print lists in Python

Sometimes you need to output tables on the console with Python. This module may be used to pretty print them. Input data provided as lists is analyzed and each cell gets formatted according the cell with the maximum length. The cell data gets aligned and printed surrounded by ASCII boxes. You might have seen a similar data output in tools like the mysql client

How to mass rename your iso movie database

Sometimes you want to rename your movies on disk according to a fixed naming scheme. The following script searches the open movie database for your flick and then renames it as <movie title>(<year>).iso and also saves the cover picture for it.