New feature in Nautilus – resize icon on desktop.

On Desktop on Gnome using nautilus, now you can resize individual icons. Just right click on the icon to resize and in the menu you will get a resize icon :

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and then you can resize the icon from the borders:

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• Add a quick-access shortcuts to the GNOME right-click menu (ghacks.net)

Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM

Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required [Firefox Tip] Click here to read Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required We’ved talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here’s how to turn it on. More »

Shell Scripting

Here are some links for bash programming that you may find useful.

http://tips-linux.net/en/content/pro-bash-programming

http://tips-linux.net/en/content/expert-shell-scripting

http://tips-linux.net/en/content/beginning-linux-command-line

http://tips-linux.net/en/content/bash-pocket-reference

http://tips-linux.net/en/content/linux-command-line-and-shell-scripting-bible

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• imabonehead: Houcem HACHICHA’s Blog: My top ten shell/bash tricks! (houcemhachicha.blogspot.com)

Ultralight DIY distribution

Tiny Core: Ultralight DIY distribution

When reviewing a lightweight distribution, the term Swiss Army knife is sometimes employed to indicate that it’s packed with features despite a diminutive size. However, at 11MB for the ISO, Tiny Core is more of a blank-slate distribution, as when booted from a CDROM or a USB stick, it presents the user with a simple desktop consisting merely of a task launcher and a package manager. It contains some good ideas and it’s already perfectly usable, but I think it needs a few more refinements in order to become great. more»

Happy New Yeat to all.

New Year wishes to all…

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Execute a command with a timeout

Execute a command with a timeout

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I found this in Ubuntu repos, and consider it better than timeout.

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write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log… each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for.

write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log… each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for.

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This command is useful if you want to copy the output of a series of commands to a file, for example if you want to pastebin the output from ‘uname -a’, ‘lspci -vvv’ and ‘lsmod’ for video driver trouble-shooting on your favorite Linux forum.