Packagekit Error
2010/02/04
With the latest update on my Fedora 10(F10) I started getting this error when ever I wanted to use the gnome package kit (I was able to use yum though): failed to get a TID: A security policy in place …
Color in grep output to distinquish the matching entries
2010/02/04
Most of the times I end up spending a lot of time to look for the string in the grep output when I do a search. This is quite frustrating and thus I looked at the options for grep command that would …
kernel source code — the easier way to get it with git.
2010/02/04
The simplest way to get the kernel code is : […] git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git […] If you want to get the other branches then head over …
Top 3 Sites To Help You Become A Linux Command Line Master]
2010/02/04
The truth about Linux today is that one may never have to actually <a class="zem_slink" title="Spice Girls" rel="homepage" …
Damn Vulnerable Linux – DVL review
2010/02/04
Today morning I got a chance to look at one of the other less commonly known Linux Distribution and out of the line distribution, very good for Learning purposes. The distribution is known as DVL …
chfn – Change finger information
2010/02/04
Finger is a nifty nice utility to get the information on the user. A sample output of the command is as below: -0-(ak) ~ > finger ak Login: ak Name: Amit Agarwal Directory: /home/amitag Shell: …
Web Thumbnails, create your account to upload your files.
2010/02/04
So, since I got one more address, I thought of some social service too ;). Just kidding. Got my gallery site up. You can use it too to upload your photos. For stopping social abuse I would personally …
Color output from ls – based on file type
2010/02/04
Threre are certain default variables which control the color of the output from the ls command, so we will talk about them today. The first one is to get the color output from the …
Crossfire game server.. free connection.
2010/02/04
I have setup a Free to use Crossfire game server. If you want to play the game, you can connect to amit.themafia.info For playing the game you would need the client to connect to it which you can …
Setting the title of PuTTY window.
2010/02/04
Setting the title for PuTTY window is quite a simple trick. The trick is to set the PS1 with a escape sequence. When the PS1 is set with the escape sequence the variable will set the title window …
Teddy on Desktop just for fun.
2010/02/04
People often complain that Linux users are mostly geeks. Does that seem to be true if you have a package that is just to display a teddy in the desktop. True, its completely true that Fedora has a …
Bash styling(themeing), the stylist way.
2010/02/04
For last couple of days, I have been looking for solutions to make stlying my bash easier. So, first a screenshot of the effort: <img class="size-full wp-image-703" title="bash …