GIMP 2.6 released

GIMP released version 2.6 with some major improvements. I have not yet downloaded it and plan to do it in few days time.

<a href="http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html">Release notes of 2.6 version.

This version has made some changes in the GUI too and looks quite impressive in the screenshots.

Heres one of them from the GIMP site.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/gimp.org/screenshots/gnome-1280x800-fresh-start.jpg"><img title="GIMP UI" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/gimp.org/screenshots/gnome-1280x800-fresh-start.jpg" alt="GIMP UI" width="1280" height="800" />

Check it out 🙂

rpmsave and rpmnew files.

When upgrading an rpm based Linux System, all of us would have seen &#8221;*.rpmsave&#8221; or &#8221;*rpmnew&#8221; files being created. These are the config files in the rpm that rpm utility thinks should be overwritten (creates a *.rpmsave for the earlier file) or should not be overwritten (create *.rpmnew with the new file).

If you ever wondered what to do with these files then you can use this small script that would show the diff between the two files and you can decided which to keep or which to delete.

bash one liner to change/remove test pattern from config file or text file.

Problem:

I had a directory with a lot of config files in the ini file format, i.e. name and value separated by equals. Some/all of these contained some directory names and other values which had to be replaced. But there were other place where I should not not replace them, if there was no exact match. I also needed to have a backup copy of the file that I was modifying. Since the number of files that I needed to change was multiple so was quite difficult to do it without using some script.

Visualizing system performance data

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$ vmstat 2 10 | awk 'NR > 2 {print NR, $13}' | gnuplot -e “set terminal png;set output 'v.png';plot '-' u 1:2 t 'cpu' w linespoints;" draw `vmstat ` data using gnuplot

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Using PHP to search a MySQL database and return paged results

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Link above to the article. I am using this as base to do some programming of my own for my website. When I am done I can post few more details, till then…………

How to Create Mystery in Your Photos

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Large format photographer David Ward explores how to create one of the essential ingredients of his photography – mystery.

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Viewing archive without extracting.

I was looking for this option and searched the net to find quite some utilities to do this.

1. gvfs-archive — Select the file in nautilus and select &#8221;Archive Mounter&#8221; .. simple isn&#8217;t it. Supposed to work but didn&#8217;t work for me.. Though that may be because I am on rawhide.
2. <a href="http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/release/mi-arcfs/">mi-arcfs is another kernel dependent module to achieve this.
3. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/fuse-zip/">fuse-zip from google code is another nice option.

And a nice article on this this is <a href="http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.usability/2003-01/msg00092.html">here.
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