I like couple of blogs and feeds but the problem is that I keep forgetting to run the rss reader and would rather like to have the rss article’s emailed to me at regular intervals so that I …

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Nifty Things to Do with GIMP Some of us are probably addicted to capturing moments in pictures. I can understand why. It’s one of those things that help us go back to the good old days, so to speak. …

If you have worked on rpm based distro then you know how difficult it is to downgrade packages. And unluckily I upgraded some packages to fc12 and was still on FC11. Completely my mistake while doing …

A nice article here EncFS is an easy-to-use, command-line tool for storing information in encrypted form. It’s not really a file-system, but it pretends to be one at the CLI. If you’ve been searching …

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Ubuntu Tips – Boot Faster LinuxLinks: &#8221;With just a few modifications and some experimentation, …

/^([2-9]d*|1d+) If we have a csv like structure The trick here is simple, lets look at the regex from the begining: ^ – start from the begining () – start and end of block [] – digits within this. So …

Like all Unix file systems, open log files can cause a real problem when they get too large and need to be deleted. The problem is, if you delete an open file, the link is removed, but all of the …

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Today I have couple of hours to spare and thus thought might as well spend it on my blog. The finger command in *nix systems is used to display the information on the users. This information is taken …

The article is so good in itself that I need not say anything more than giving the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/nov/20/yahoo-glue" …

Since quite some time I was getting the below error when I am trying to run compiz. I was busy and also was not working in Gnome so did not look at this until today. […] compiz (core) – Fatal: …