RPMFusion release for YUM.

For people who have used yum on Fedora, you must have seen that couple of packages that you require are on Livna and couple of them on DAG and some others on FreshRPMs and Dribble. And for those of you, who have tried to install the packages from all these repositories, I know it is difficult. The repo’s never worked too well together.

So finallly there is a nice solution to all these problems, <a href="http://rpmfusion.org/" target="_blank">RPMFusion is the solution. This is a effort to merge the repo in all the four above mentioned repo. just now installed the repo and am updating my system and definately hope to get a lot lesser problems now. 🙂

On screen display of a command

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delay: 2d On screen display of a command. $ date|osd_cat This is very useful if you need to show someone some text from a distance. (Like someone standing over your shoulder…)

I&#8217;d recommend aliasing it to something like:

alias osd_cat=&#8221;osd_cat -o 400 -s 8 -c blue -d 60 -f osd_cat -f -*-bitstream vera sans-*-*-*–200-*-*-*-*-*-*-*&#8221;

xosd is the utility that provides osd_cat.

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root shell auditing and syslog entry for all commands of shell

A lot of times there is a need to log all the messages and the output of the shell to the file or syslog. Sometimes I need that for some user too. script command can be used to do this but then sometimes you cannot tell the user the session is logged or you can ask the user to run this command and it should be automatically done. And sometimes there is a need put the output in the syslog so that the root user has more control and also mail for syslog is sufficient to be analyzed rather than looking for other files. Finally I found this :

top command with rc to make it more useful and beautiful.

Just for fun, somedays back I was reading the top command. This command is something that I have been using since long time and have never read the man page so I thought let me do that. And yes, it was worth while to look at that page. I came to know that top supports toprc file and that it can be used to configure the way top looks. So:

Managing your remote site locally – sitecopy.

If you are managing a remote site, web server that you do not have direct access to (terminal or ssh) and you have to do it with cpanel, then I know how much pain it is. I had the same issue until recently when I discovered <a href="http://http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/" target="_blank">sitecopy.

Description of sitecopy:

sitecopy allows you to easily maintain remote Web sites.  The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local site, with a single command. sitecopy will also optionally try to spot files you move locally, and move them remotely.  FTP and WebDAV servers are supported.

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Diary and Journal on your linux Desktop

<a href="http://digitaldump.wordpress.com/projects/rednotebook/" target="_blank">RedNotebook is a diary and journel for the *nix OS. This is a great software with some very good features.

This is available on fedora repo and hence to install you can just type:

sudo yum install rednotebook

Some features to note are:

• Enter text for individual days and navigate using a fancy calendar
• Add Categories to days and fill them with small content
• Tag your entries
• Format your text bold, italic or <span style="text-decoration: underline;">underlined
• Insert Images, files and links to websites
• Links and mail addresses are recognized automatically
• (Live-) Search
• Automatic saving
• Backup to zip archive
• Word Clouds with most often used words and tags
• Create a template for each day
• Export the journal to HTML, Latex or plain text
• RedNotebook is Open Source Software, you are free to use and redistribute it under the terms of the GPL

MinGW – compile windows software on Linux

For all the windows developer out there, it is impossible to switch to Linux just because someone is looking for the Windows exe. Sooooooo bad. Not any more. There has been the MinGW compiler (and others) to compile the C programs on Linux box to run on Windows box. These cross compilers create windows exe and thus these can run on Windows natively without additional dll&#8217;s. That&#8217;s quite good, so how to do it.