Linux Advocacy and cool things to do with Linux.

2010-04-12 2 min read Linux

I have heard a lot of Linux advocacy and read probably a couple of artilcles also on them but they lack one thing : the end user perspective. Linux is great no doubt, but there are far too many things to confuse people at all levels. For example, if you do a google search for which distro is good for me, you will find different sites giving you different results. So, whats my point?

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fotowall – create cool looking wallpapers (collage) on Linux

2010-04-12 0 min read Linux Photo
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Image by raj77_in via Flickr

Description of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software:

FotoWall is a creative tool that allows you to layout your photos or pictures in a personal way. You can add pictures, then resize, move, change colors, text, shadows, etc..

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/screenshot_001.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1499" title="Fotowall - start" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot_001-300x178.jpg" alt="Fotowall - start" width="300" height="178" />

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Generate web thumbnails page (gallery) for free with convert command on linux

2010-04-12 1 min read Linux Photo

Here&#8217;s something for guys who want to generate html file with thumbnails of photos. I know sometimes it really gets messy. So sometime back I had found a search on the net for the same and found a script written by Samuel Hocevar.  Sorry I do not seem to have the link to the page, but since the script is GPL and name of the author is there in the script, I can put it for download from my web-blog also. So here is the script <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/genthumb.sh">genthumb

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Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft

2010-04-12 1 min read Linux

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft Whilst it&#8217;s not okay in Microsoft&#8217;s eyes for Google to install a plugin into Internet Explorer, increasing the potential surface area of attack, when Microsoft do it to Firefox, it&#8217;s a different matter. Now a security hole has been found in a plugin that Microsoft have been silently installing into Firefox.

URL: <a href="http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft">http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft

Afraid Dynamic DNS client in Fedora with Email indicating the changed to original IP.

2010-04-12 0 min read Bash Fedora Linux
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If you have your domain in the Dynamic DNS located at : <a href="http://freedns.afraid.org">Freedns then you know how difficult it is to get the Dynamic DNS client to work with Fedora. Not that it does not work, but you need to configure it properly and there are lot of parameters. But not any more. Now you can install the afraid Dynamic DNS client and just put your Account Hash in the config file and you are ready with the setup to update the DNS entry whenever your IP changes. So lets get started:

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added comment luv plugin.

2010-04-12 1 min read Linux

Added a plugin called comment luv, now you would love commenting. I am also looking for suitable plugin to raise a ticket on the blog. This would enable the users to raise their concerns and feature or plugin request for the blog. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment.

Get the mappings from tex file for vim plugins

2010-04-12 1 min read Linux

Get the mappings from tex file for the vim plugins.

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE:  get_mappings_from_tex_for_vim.sh

#         USAGE:  ./get_mappings_from_tex_for_vim.sh

#   DESCRIPTION:  Get the mappings from tex file

#       OPTIONS:  —
#  REQUIREMENTS:  —
#          BUGS:  —
#         NOTES:  —
#        AUTHOR:  Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY:  Individual
#       VERSION:  1.0
#       CREATED:  09/06/2009 09:19:19 PM IST
#      REVISION:  —
#===============================================================================

set -o nounset                              # Treat unset variables as an error

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