cksum – compare for multiple files.
2013/04/30
If you have to compare cksum for couple of files, the you know how cumbersome it is. So, I wrote a simple script, wherein you can create a file called cksums in the current directory and copy paste …
configure firewall – the easy way.
2013/04/24
It is good practice to keep iptables/firewall enabled. But configuring it is difficult, do you agree. Not any more 🙂 Install firewall-config sudo yum install firewall-config This will install a GUI …
sendmail or sending mail
2013/04/19
If you want to use sendmail so that you can send all your mails from the local system to your email address, then you have to use sendmail. Now, configuring sendmail has never been that easy and if …
IE8 – Developer Tools
2013/04/15
Don’t start banging me for this, but I had to test something on Windows and thus found out this. I f you need to debug or test something on IE8 on Windows, then you can simply press “F12” and this …
ss – anothre utility to investigate sockets.
2013/04/11
ss is : […] ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informationsthan other tools. […] This comes in …
dwb – keyboard driven browser
2013/04/08
First off, install using the command sudo yum install dwb Now for the description: […] dwb is small webkit-based web-browser in the spirit of tiling window managers,that aims to be mostly …
Ubuntu hushlogin
2013/03/27
In Ubuntu, if you do not like all the information that comes when you do a remote login, then you just need to do this:
duff – find duplicate files.
2013/03/19
duff – description: […] Description : Duff is a command-line utility for quickly finding d […] uplicates in a given set of files […] and now time to execute : find . -type f …
dnsmasq not starting from NetworkManager with SELinux enabled.
2013/03/16
Some time back I posted on dnsmasq starting from Network Manager and how to setup dnsmasq. Now, couple of days back , I setup dnsmasq in NetworkManager but was astonished to see that there was no …
Firefox troubleshooting
2013/03/11
Here are few quick tips on getting to see what could be wrong with firefox. Config entries – about:config Support Information – about:support Details on config entries – …
slow ssh connection
2013/02/26
If you are experiencing slow ssh connections, then possibly your system is trying to do reverse lookup of the IP address. If that is the case, then you can add the below to “hosts” line in …
steam on Linux – for Fedora
2013/02/22
I was trying to get steam on linux on my Fedora box. Headed over to steam website, but was astonished to find only Ubuntu client over there. A little googling presented me with the developer website …