View information on all the rpms installed.
2010/01/16
This post if applicable to all the distro’s which are based on rpm. If you look at the number of rpms installed on your system, you will see it somewhere around 500-2000. Noe thats a pretty …
using mypaint of linux continued.
2010/01/16
Some more screenshots here: <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Screenshot-3.resized.jpg"><img …
Browser and OS stats on my blog
2010/01/16
I have been thinking of posting this for some time, but here are some stats from my <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" …
Speed up gnome and change widow manager for gnome.
2010/01/13
I have been planning to do this for quite some time now. So finally I did this today. Actually I wanted to use some features of gnome like tracker and gnome-settings and quite a few other things along …
GoOo released new version of Open Office.
2010/01/11
GoOo repository for Fedora at http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/ has released the new version of GoOo packages.
Send mail to yourself and read in your favourite client and configure the rules to move to directory.
2010/01/10
By default when you send a mail using sendmail, the mail goes to the default directory. What I wanted to do was, use rss2email, to send the mails and then sort them in different folders depending on …
Remove Invalid characters in Filename.
2010/01/10
Sometimes I end up having some invalid characters in filename like ? & and so on. So simple bash script to get rid of them: for i in `find . -type f` do echo $i mv $i `echo $i |tr ? _|tr = _ |tr …
change the terminal title dynamically in X11
2010/01/09
I was actually looking for this for quite sometime. Some years back in my bashrc was the proper setting for setting the terminal title when I did a cd, and I had completely forgotten how to do it. So …
The document editor that is revolutionary and breaking the typewriter paradigm.
2010/01/08
Today, I thought I will try something different for word processor requirements, for non-text files. For text files, vi rocks for me 🙂 So, I tried LyX, here is the description of the editor: …
using cscope with vim
2010/01/08
Here’s the best of the two links that I found with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/google" title="Google" rel="homepage" …
Sendmail host map failure issue with sendmail.
2010/01/07
I was having this issue for long time with sendmail and not getting time to fix this. Finally today I found the solution. <span style="font-weight: …
shell — one liner to selectively change case
2010/01/07
Today I had a hard time, I had a herculian task of converting the case of file to upper case. Well that’s not difficult :), I know. What made it difficult was the fact that not the whole …