let a cow tell you your fortune

2010-06-03 1 min read Bash Linux

Here\’s something that I saw on commandlinefu yesterday. That sent me thinking about some command to have the cow file picked randomly 🙂 So, here\’s the original command from the commandlinefu:

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        $ fortune | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cowsay" title="Cowsay" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nog.net/%7Etony/warez/cowsay.shtml">cowsay</a> -f tux
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Let Tux bring the fortune cookie

Logwatch for Linux Systems.

2010-06-02 2 min read Fedora Linux

On my personal <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/client" title="Client (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29">desktop at home, I like to see the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/statistics" title="Statistics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics">statistics at least once a day, for what was installed, what was run with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudo" title="Sudo" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sudo.ws/">sudo and other such details like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kernel" title="Kernel (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computing%29">kernel errors.

Running this monotonously every day is quite boring, so comes to rescue is logwatch. I have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/installation" title="Installation (computer programs)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_%28computer_programs%29">installation so I will talk about the location with respect to that so for your distribution it might be a little different.

phpMan: Unix Man page/ Perldoc / Info page Web Interface

2010-06-02 1 min read Linux

<a href="http://phpunixman.sourceforge.net/">Link

A web interface to browse the man pages along with perldoc or info pages for all the Linux commands.

Quite useful if you are on windows and want to quickly look at some reference for Linux command. Otherwise too quite intuitive and interesting and easy to browse.

Google staff dropping Windows for Macs, Linux PCs

2010-06-02 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

For those who keep saying this is not the year of linux and probably it will never be 🙂

Google is abandoning the use of Windows by its staff as it\’s too much of a security threat, multiple staffers said Monday night. Recent concerns about Chinese hacks have the search firm requiring either a Mac or Linux for all new recruits to provide better security. Those who want Windows now often require explicit approval from executives and may not have any choice on desktops where it\’s only an option for notebooks.

[link to original | source: LXer Linux News

Google said to be moving away from Windows internally, Mac and Linux systems on tap instead (engadget.com)
Google revamps new employee computer policy; Windows now out of the equation (edibleapple.com)
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is (techcrunch.com)

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Key bindings for screen command

2010-06-01 3 min read Linux

Key bindings

screen commands consist of a command character (Ctrl-a by default) followed by another character. For many of the commands, you can also specify the character as Ctrl-character–e.g., Ctrl-a Ctrl-d as well as Ctrl-a d. The default key bindings are listed here. You can change the bindings for yourself in the $HOME/.screenrc configuration file, or for all users in /etc/screenrc. The term in parentheses that follows the description is the equivalent configuration-file command for changing the key binding.

gdialog on F11 – Leonidas

2010-06-01 1 min read Fedora

If you are using some old application or want to install some application that was developed quite some time back with GTK GUI, then you may find the application using gdialog. gdialog is no more available and is deprecated in Fedora and same functionality is provided by zenity. But the options to call zenity are slightly different so what do you do. I did a google search and found the following script. The credit of script is not mine and credit goes to ”Mike Newman mikegtn@gnome.org”

Deleting lines from the text file

2010-06-01 1 min read Linux

Really useful for pretty big <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_file" title="Computer file" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file">files.

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sed" title="Sed" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed">sed –silent ’1,100 d’ <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/filename" title="Filename" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename">filename

here the command will delete the first 100 lines. You can specify whatever range you want. This will not delete the lines from the file but only display the contents on the console after deleting the 100 lines from begining.

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