Fedora
bash completion
2011/08/09
I was working on some functions in bash to make my life easier and realized that if I added custom completion to my functions, it will be really good. So I headed over to google and searched for what …
Total upload and download on any interface.
2011/06/05
Something that I have been searching for a long time, finally some look inside the <a class=“zem_slink” title=“Procfs” rel=“wikipedia” …
Results of Fedora 16 Release Name Voting
2011/04/20
Fedora 16 is codenamed Verne. Here are other details: The voting has concluded for the Fedora 16 release name, and the results are in! Thank you to the Fedora community members who made name …
sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.
2011/03/30
I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory. To install: …
use finch, less memory and cpu usage, in replacement for pidgin.
2011/03/27
Well, if you are on linux then you have options – is a known fact. But how those options help? I was working on a machine which had very less RAM and was quite old system and it was running F14. Guess …
Try all colors in xterm with script before setting the color
2011/03/18
If you are looking for testing the colors on how they would look like in the xterm before you set the color then here is a small script for you. […] <td> <div class="text …
All in one solution for all the scripts of vim from vim.org
2011/03/09
For quite sometime now, I was looking for some console based program which would help me get the scripts from vim.org. A simple solution would have been to do a wget for the scripts. But since there …
configuration for afraid-dyndns on Fedora and other similar distro.
2011/03/04
First install afraid-dyndns with the command: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> sudo yum install afraid-dyndns </div> </td> </tr> Now open the …
Gnome Tips
2011/02/25
Add/Edit GDM Sessions Each session is a *.desktop file located at /usr/share/xsessions. […] You can change background image, gtk/icon theme by hands (as described at …
Using ssmtp to send mail using gmail.
2011/02/19
First install the package ssmtp using the command: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> sudo yum install ssmtp </div> </td> </tr> Open the …
vino – connect to running GNome session like RDP
2011/02/04
One thing that all of us Linux users have probably missed is connecting to the running GNome session to see what is going on in the running session. This can be quite handy in couple of situations: …
bash mathematical calculators.
2011/01/25
To start with , the most simple and easy to use should be “bc”. but just for some guys who want to be more experimental, here are few more bash calulator programs. These are completely command line …