New improvements in site.
2012/11/16
Have spent some time today to speed up the blog today and made some improvements. Today I finally managed to get some time to update my site and change theme. I also made some changes that should …
Xnest – XDMCP protocol and virtual DM
2012/10/22
XDMCP is protocol that allows remote connections and provides you with a working Display Manager like KDE, GNome, et al. Its a remote connection protocol that is mostly enabled on Solaris and disabled …
meld – cvs diff with ease
2012/10/17
There are couple of ways to make life easier with CVS diff. But here is one that is really good. First if you haven’t, install meld: sudo yum install meld meld is basically a diff viewer and pretty …
phpmyadmin access problem and change server from URL
2012/09/30
I was having issues with one of the phpmyadmin setups. The first server defined in the config file was not accessible and the theme that I was using was not allowing me to change the server from the …
Shortcut to run current command with sudo in bash
2012/09/20
For me, I mostly forget to add “sudo” to the command until the time I am actually supposed to run it. Also sometimes, on some systems, bash completion does not work as expected with “sudo”. With these …
Ubuntu – Really force remove a package.
2012/09/17
I was trying to remove a package on one of the Ubuntu installations the other day and was not able to do so. I tried google and tried all the options mentioned in various forums like “-f”, purge, …
snmpd -verify if the mibs are loaded.
2012/09/10
If you are setting up the snmpd server and have added your own mibs and do not really know if the mibs are loaded or not then simply go to the directory: /var/lib/net-snmp/mib-indexes This can save …
pdfjs – html5+javascript based pdf viewer for Firefox.
2012/09/05
Firefox 15 has arrived and there is lot to brag about. Since there are already many blogs on this, so just giving you a link to one of those. But what is most interesting is the integration of PDF.js. …
using iTerm color schmes with gnome-terminal.
2012/08/29
Found this great page and thought of sharing this: http://www.sharms.org/blog/2012/08/using-iterm-2-themes-with-gnome-terminal/ When using this, you will need to install : …
script for changing gnome-terminal color schemes.
2012/08/25
Earlier I had posted this. So, if you want to try all of these schemes, then you need not have to copy paste the schemes from the web page, you can try the below script. # function idleToes() { …
gnome-terminal color schemes.
2012/08/21
I was looking for a way to set the terminal colors for gnome. There is a GUI way to change the same by going to the Preferences->Colors. And then you can change the colors that you see in the color …
Different bottom panel for gnome3.
2012/08/14
If you miss the bottom panel on gnome3, the do give tint2 a try. Here is how this looks (by default). […]