cairo-dock themes on server – download to local machine.

2010-05-30 1 min read Linux

I was trying to get all the cairo-themes locally. One because sometimes the internet connection is slow and second for the fun of it. So I did the first thing that can be done, to search the internet and find out how to do it. Could not find anything in the results and thus started to search how to to it. And here it is finally:

Get the list of themes <a href="http://themes.cairo-dock.org/liste.txt" target="_blank">here. Once this is done, simply go to http://themes.cairo-dock.org/ and download the file. Once this is done you can untar it to /usr/share/cairo-dock/themes and you are done.

UFRaw – Open open format raw images in Linux.

2010-05-27 1 min read Fedora Linux Photo

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ufraw" title="UFRaw" rel="homepage" href="http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/">UFRaw is quite an essential program if you are using <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux and have a camera that supports <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/raw_image_format" title="Raw image format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format">raw format.

UFRaw is a tool for opening raw format images of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/digital_camera" title="Digital camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera">digital cameras.

UFRaw supports a long list of camera’s. You can see the list of supported camera’s <a href="http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html">here.

vim – get the list of all the scripts available.

2010-05-27 1 min read Learning Linux Vim Tips

To get a list of all the scripts in the vim.sf.net project, you can run the following command. This will list all the scripts with the script id.

wget -O – ’http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?&show_me=4000&result_ptr=0’ -o /dev/null | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep width| grep script_id= |<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sed" title="Sed" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed">sed ’s/.*script_id=//’|tr -d ”””|tr ”>” ” ”|sed ’s/< .*//’ | tr -d ’\001’-’\011’’\013’’\014’’\016’-’\037’’\200’-’\377’ |sort -n<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com/2009/09/17/use-curl-to-monitor-your-vonage-phone-bill/">Use curl to Monitor Your Vonage Phone Bill (slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://securewebs.com/yum-updates/">Yum Updates (securewebs.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.gubatron.com/blog/2009/10/10/ubuntudebian-quick-reference-how-to-change-your-servers-utc-timezone-on-the-command-line/">Ubuntu/Debian Quick Reference: How To Change Your Server’s UTC Timezone on the command line (gubatron.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/11/22/short-information-about-loaded-kernel-modules/">Short Information about loaded kernel modules (amit-agarwal.co.in) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/b22b2e85-8107-4f9b-9130-85a8e8ae370b/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b52.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

2010-05-27 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized

If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE: checklinks.sh

#         USAGE: ./checklinks.sh

#   DESCRIPTION: Check if the links exists on affiliate sites

#       OPTIONS: —
# REQUIREMENTS: —
#          BUGS: —
#         NOTES: —
#        AUTHOR: <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY: Individual
#       VERSION: 1.0
#       CREATED: 04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
#      REVISION: —
#===============================================================================
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Using SSH-keys to connect to a server – Putty,Solaris,Linux

2010-05-27 5 min read Linux

Generating the ssh dsa keys

ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t dsa
When this command is executed on your local machine, it will ask you for a passphrase and generate
a 1024 bit long (-b 1024) public/private dsa (-t dsa) key pair with the ssh-keygen command.
You can also create a rsa key (-t rsa).
You can leave out the bit length parameter (default bit length is 1024).

In case you don’t like the standard key name you can specify a name using the -f name parameter.
In the process you are asked for a place to save your keys. I kept the standard path. Then you are asked for a passphrase.
Now there are two paths which you can follow :
a) the short, easy but insecure way: use no passphrase, have easy access to your remote-server, feel paranoid about someone stealing your private key
b) the a bit longer, slightly less comfortable but secure way: use a passphrase, use ssh-agent and feel safe

Fedora 12 Beta now available

2010-05-27 1 min read Fedora Linux

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/357770/rss">Fedora 12 Beta now available

The Fedora project has released Fedora 12 Beta. ”We have reached the Fedora 12 Beta, the last important development milestone of Fedora 12. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 12, scheduled to be released in mid-November. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 12 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing us your valuable feedback.” Click below for a list of new features.

command not found – packagekit plugin

2010-05-27 0 min read Fedora Linux

$\"Example$: Image via Wikipedia

If you run into problems where you run some command and the command is not found and you have to install it and run the program again then why not use the command not found <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/plugin" title="Plug-in (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29">plugin for Packagekit. Here is the description: