One of the most written and commented articles has to be Linux vs Windows (of course there are competitors like vim vs emacs) but none has been covered so much as Linux vs Windows. So, what am I going to write here which is not covered earlier in so many other posts. Well a little different perspective 🙂
Continue reading
Whenever I am writing a script in perl or bash, I always wish that there
was some way to have all the commands logged or output to screen. I know
there is “set -x” option to have debugging enabled, but sometimes that
seems to be too much information and I dont really need all that. So, here
is something I found recently for bash to log all the executed commands.
In my previous post on check filesystem regurlarly, I mentioned tune2fs. That tool give quite a lot of information. But just in case, you did not find what you are looking for in the output, then you can get much more information on these partitions with the dumpe2fs command.
Continue readingIn Fedora, ramdisks are not created by default as is the case with RHEL. So, if you need to get Ramdisks on Fedora, then you can do this:
sudo yum install MAKEDEV
This will create some default Ramdisk’s in the “/dev” directory. Now, if you need to change anything then feel free to go to “/etc/makedev.d” and feel free to change these files.
Continue reading
Last couple of years, I just used to disable iptables on my system, this time I decided not to disable it and keep it enabled.
So far so good, now comes the tricky part, I have http server enabled on my system and since this is on local network with already firewall and other security in place so I can allow all incoming to my system and similarly I need to enable XDMCP outgoing. So, I can add the rules like this :
Continue readingThere are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution.
You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions.
download omega from http:// xapian.org/download
yum install xapian libuuid-devel
And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions.
Create index using command omindex
and then you can use quest or search.py to search or you can setup the cgi way so that you can use local browser to search.
LibreOffice 3.5 was released few days back with loads of features and improvements. Most bragged about feature should be capability to read visio diagrams. You can read the full list of features here. And here are some interesting features:
