Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux

?Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux
”The long wait is over and Linux users can finally use the Gmail
Videochat! The <a class="zem_slink" title="Gmail" rel="homepage" href="http://gmail.com">GMail team recently announced the availability of voice
and <a class="zem_slink" title="Videoconferencing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing">video chat on Linux. This feature is currently supported on <a class="zem_slink" title="Ubuntu (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu
and other <a class="zem_slink" title="Debian" rel="homepage" href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian-based <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distributions. <a class="zem_slink" title="RPM Package Manager" rel="homepage" href="http://rpm.org/">RPM Support for <a class="zem_slink" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora Linux
and other <a class="zem_slink" title="Red Hat" rel="homepage" href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat based distributions (like <a class="zem_slink" title="CentOS" rel="homepage" href="http://www.centos.org/">CentOS) is going to be added
soon.&#8221; Some screenshots of GMail Video Chat on Linux in action

gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.

First install the gphotoframe application with the command :

sudo yum install gphotoframe

and if you want gnome-screensaver compatibility then install the package gphotoframe-gss also.

Gnome Photo Frame is a photo frame gadget for the <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Desktop. Let&#8217;s see how this works.. run the command gphotoframe from a terminal:

Here is what you will see :

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1880" title="Screenshot-gphotoframe" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe-300x227.png" alt="Screenshot-gphotoframe" width="300" height="227" />

Don&#8217;t panic on seeing the blank/black page. You need to add the source first. So <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">right click on the window and go to preferences:

Using mtpaint of Fedora to modify your images and make them look different.

Here is the description of mtpaint :

mtPaint is a simple painting program designed for creating icons
and pixel-based artwork. It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit <a class="zem_slink" title="RGB color model" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model">RGB
images and offers basic painting and palette manipulation tools.
Its main <a class="zem_slink" title="File format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format">file format is <a class="zem_slink" title="Portable Network Graphics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics">PNG, although it can also handle <a class="zem_slink" title="JPEG" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG">JPEG, <a class="zem_slink" title="Graphics Interchange Format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format">GIF,
TIFF, <a class="zem_slink" title="BMP file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format">BMP, <a class="zem_slink" title="X PixMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap">XPM, and <a class="zem_slink" title="X BitMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap">XBM files.

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Find who is using my network – top for network utilization

Ok here is something that I have been looking for something.  Now that I have conky installed, so I can see the bandwidth usage on my desktop but was wondering for sometimes, where actually so much is being used. So did some quick search to see if I can get that info and did not have to go too far 🙂

There is s  utility called iftop in the Fedora repo and at the <a href="http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/" target="_blank">URL. Oh and how to use it, just type sudo iftop or if you have multiple network interface then you can do &#8221;iftop -f &#8221;. Thats pretty simple and cool.

importing outlook pst files in evolution in Fedora 13 ( Goddard)

If you were using outlook and moved to some other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client" title="Email client" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client">mail client then you know the pain of moving the mails from outlook mail from outlook to any other client.

If you are using evolution on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora, then you are in luck. Just install the plug-in and select the file to import as simple as that.

sudo yum install evolution-pst

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Get the information on all the rpms installed on the system

Here&#8217;s a one-liner to get the info on all the packages installed on your system.

rpm -qa –info |tee All_rpms_Info

This is what it does, when you query the rpm database with the –info parameter, then the output looks something like the below, which is quite helpful.

Name        : rpm                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.6.0                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 0.rc3.1.fc10                  Build Date: Sat 13 Dec 2008 12:38:24 AM IST
Install Date: Tue 13 Jan 2009 09:22:50 PM IST      Build Host: x86-5.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: rpm-4.6.0-0.rc3.1.fc10.src.rpm
Size        : 3662666                          License: GPLv2+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 06 Jan 2009 08:20:24 PM IST, Key ID bf226fcc4ebfc273
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.rpm.org/
Summary     : The RPM package management system
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.

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How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

• display Linux skills
• install popular software
• change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings
• display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information
• enable some third party repositories#
• clean apt/yum cache#
• backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with &#8221;#&#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only

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