viewvc – serve current directory in web interface.
2013/02/18
Here is the description of viewvc: […] ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. It generates templatized HTML to present navigable directory, revision, …
ssh reverse tunning..
2013/02/14
If you want to access some local resources like the release website from the remote server when you are connecting to the remoter server using ssh over VPN, then possibly reverse ssh tunnelling is the …
Taking screenshot in firefox.
2013/02/03
Couple of days back, I was trying to take screenshot with Firefox. As usual I started out with searching for plugins which could take a screen shot for the whole page and not just the visible portion …
NIce backgrounds with Fedora with Yearly calnedar
2013/01/31
Here is something that you can try sudo yum install yearcalendar-backgrounds This will install 3 wallpapers with yearly calendars. There is no interesting background in the calendar but then you get …
dnsmasq – use with Network Manager.
2013/01/28
Well if you have not heard about dnsmasq: […] Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. …
lightweight pdf viewer – zathura.
2013/01/28
Zathura is a lightweight viewer for pdf which works on plugins. Here is shor description : […] Zathura is a highly configurable and functional PDF viewer based on the Poppler rendering library …
dnstop – top like utility for Fedora and other *nix
2013/01/16
For installation : sudo yum install dnstop And now some description: […] dnstop is a libpcap application (ala tcpdump) that displays various tables of DNS traffic on your network. dnstop …
poor mans watch, watch for solaris
2013/01/01
Here is a simple script that you can use as watch in Solaris as well.
Disable a few cores when you want to save power.
2012/12/28
If you have a lot of CPU power and working on battery. If you do not need that much of power and would like to rather save some battery power by disabling some cpus then you can use the below script. …
Battery performance improvement with powertop and using xidel.
2012/12/24
For those of you, who have not heard about powertop, it is a tool to monitor the power consumption on your system. It has a tab which shows the tuneable parameters. Doing the changes suggested in …
quick bash script for datewise backup of directory
2012/12/12
I was working on something and the data was very critical and needed backup. I wrote a bash script to back up the data every 5 hours with cron and bash script. Thought I will share that with you. Here …
Allow incoming/outgoing ports on iptables
2012/11/27
Last couple of years, I just used to disable iptables on my system, this time I decided not to disable it and keep it enabled. So far so good, now comes the tricky part, I have http server enabled on …