Linux
cdargs – bash cd command with bookmarks and browser.
2010/06/22
cdargs is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bash" title="Bash" rel="homepage" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html">bash shell cd with …
Oracle GUI client on Linux with mysql support
2010/06/22
I was looking for some nice client for Oracle and mysql. I did find mysql-administrator and navicat to be useful but this is much better. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/" …
Fixing the Xorg X server after removing nouveau and nvidia and installing a nVidia graphics card.
2010/06/22
I updated my destop configuration recently, well thats not the news. But I was a idiot doing certain things at that time might be something interesting to my readers. I got a <a …
gollage – create simple collage with ease.
2010/06/21
Find the project <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gollage/" target="_blank">here. Download the tar ball and install it. Description of the application is: […] …
concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs
2010/06/21
$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gzip" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; …
Scribblenauts
2010/06/20
<a href="http://xkcd.com/637/"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/imgs.xkcd.com/comics/scribblenauts.png" alt="Let me look away and type 'guy …
regular expression, sed and grep tuturials and tricks.
2010/06/17
Simply a great one page article on sed and use of regular expressions. <a href="http://almirkaric.com/2009/07/15/sed-and-grep-tips/" …
Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents
2010/06/17
Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents $ tput smcup; echo ”Doing some things…”; sleep 2; tput rmcup Very useful for interactive scripts where you would like to …
Change pidgin status from the command line
2010/06/16
$ purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=AFK" Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn’t aware of purple-remote existence. […] <a …
Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages
2010/06/16
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages Tech Source From Bohol: ”Most of …
wmctrl – window control manager
2010/06/16
What is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wmctrl" title="Wmctrl" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmctrl">wmctrl? wmctrl is a command that …
17 Cool firefox tweaks.
2010/06/16
A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro’s. <a …