uptimed – keep track of your system uptime.

Uptimed is an up time record daemon keeping track of the highest
up times the system ever had.

Uptimed has the ability to inform you of records and milestones
though syslog and e-mail, and comes with a console front end to
parse the records, which can also easily be used to show your
records on your Web page

Installation :

sudo yum install uptimed

Once installed, you will have to first create the boot id with this command:

Google gravity for fun

1) Write ‘Google Gravity‘ in Google search box,press enter. 2) Click on the 1st result that appears i.e. Google Gravity. 3) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen. 4) Play with it for a while. 5) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter. 6) Wait and see. Something even cooler will happen 🙂 Awesome !!!..

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30 Best Windows Mobile Applications

30 Best Windows Mobile Applications

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The main reason why people still love window mobile is because of its freeware applications and excellent add-ons. Windows Mobile users carry great access to third party applications than any other Mobile Operating system in the market. At the same time it might be confusing for the user to settle on which window mobile apps to download. So we at honeytechblog did a search and have compiled a list of Top 30 Best window mobile applications. These applications will ensure following features such as networking, themes, tools for tweak, music players, newsreaders, Internet browser, document manager and much more.

Google+ – way to go for experinmenting.

Finally I got a invitations and was able to get into the Google+ today. Having been trying to do this for last couple of days, was quite anxious on how it is and how it fairs against Facebook and twitter.

First, heres a first look of the account:

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Most noticable thing, as soon as you login is that all your contacts from google aare directly visible in your account and you can directly put them in any of the circles that you like. Picasaweb photos can be imported.

bash regular expressions

Here are some quick links on bash regular expressions, pretty good links to bookmark, if you use, regular expressions in bash regularly. I especially like the tldp link at number 3.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-regular-expressions
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#VARMATCH
http://wellington.pm.org/archive/200005/codegen/index9.htm

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The Hidden PS

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While going through the source code for the well known ps command, I read about some interesting things.. Namely, that there are a bunch of different fields that ps can try and enumerate for you. These are fields I was not able to find in the man pages, documentation, only in the source.

Firesheep addon allows the clueless to hack Facebook, Twitter over Wi-Fi

Firesheep addon allows the clueless to hack Facebook, Twitter over Wi-Fi If you thought hijacking a user’s social media session was only done by skilled hackers, now the Firesheep addon can allow even the truly clueless to become an Internet griefer.

URL: http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/linux_unix/popular/~3/cb0qD08tfpU/firesheep_addon_allows_the_clueless_to_hack_facebook_twitter_over_wi_fi

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