Fedora
Mount and unmount/umount images(iso/img) from nautilus (Fixed not mounting in Fedora)
2010/03/09
Get the Nautilus Script <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/moiso?content=84301" target="_blank">here. So what is required is that you have the necessary …
swaks – Swiff army nife for SMTP
2010/03/09
If you are having issues with the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/simple_mail_transfer_protocol" title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol" rel="wikipedia" …
Email web statistics from the hosted website using awstats page.
2010/03/08
I want to see the stats for my websites mailed to me directly like Google analytics does. Sure enough I can see them on the hosting cpanel page on awstats, but I dont want to check that everyday. An …
New GTK and metacity themes from Ian
2010/03/05
Here are two themes from Ian.. Link: http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-gtk2-and-metacity-themes.html <a …
FVWM window manager.
2010/03/05
<a href="http://www.fvwm.org/" target="_blank">Home Page of fvwm. So Now I am trying different window managers. My requirement is simple, alt+tab should allow me to swicht …
Minimize the download size for updates.
2010/02/10
Fedora has rolled out presto repositories. What this means to the users is that the download size for the updates would be greatly reduced. To use the feature, first install the yum plugin: […] …
Openoffice.org and/or Excel useful tips.
2010/02/10
Today I was working on Excel sheets and had to do quite a lot of manipulations. Here are some of those: […] You can use the indirect function. Here is example: <a …
Annotating the photograph with comments.
2010/02/10
There is a nice Linux command called convert. This command can be used in various ways to do image manipulation. One of them is to embark your image with some text. Here is how to do it. **echo …
PackageKit error File \”/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py\”, line 1215, in _get_depends_not_installed – Resolved
2010/02/04
In packagekit, if you getting the error below: […] Traceback (most recent call last): File ”/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py”, line 1215, in …
Packagekit Error
2010/02/04
With the latest update on my Fedora 10(F10) I started getting this error when ever I wanted to use the gnome package kit (I was able to use yum though): failed to get a TID: A security policy in place …
kernel source code — the easier way to get it with git.
2010/02/04
The simplest way to get the kernel code is : […] git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git […] If you want to get the other branches then head over …
Crossfire game server.. free connection.
2010/02/04
I have setup a Free to use Crossfire game server. If you want to play the game, you can connect to amit.themafia.info For playing the game you would need the client to connect to it which you can …