Fedora 16 screenshot with conky and bmpaenl2

For all those who used to keep complaining about the bottom panel of Gnome which used to show a list of windows, you can get it back with bmpanel2 (there are lot of other options too, but this one is light.). You can have themes for the panel also.

And the best part about using gnome-shell is that I always getting a feeling that I now have more space on the Desktop. And, thus conky looks good too on the Desktop. Here’s a screenshot.

Gnome 3 shell themes

If you are using gnome-shell and are bored with the same default theme then read on…. 🙂

By default changing the default theme requires that you modify the files yourself or copy few files to the required directories. Well, if this is not in your scheme of things for changing the theme, a very simple task. Now, you can simply do this with gnome shell extensions.

Results of Fedora 16 Release Name Voting

Fedora 16 is codenamed Verne. Here are other details:

The voting has concluded for the Fedora 16 release name, and the
results are in!  Thank you to the Fedora community members who made
name suggestions and participated in the voting.

The Fedora 16 release name is: Verne

Voting period:  Tuesday 2011-04-05 00:00:00 to Monday 2011-04-11 23:59:59
Number of valid ballots cast:  421

Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum
of (421*9) = 3789 votes.

The Ultimate Guide to Getting Support on Linux-use empathy to login to IRC….

The Ultimate Guide to Getting Support on Linux
Installing Linux has become effortless to the extent that anyone with a little knowledge of computers can get a Linux machine up and running instantly. However, many of them throw in the towel when faced with even the slightest of glitches. The main reason for this is the belief that Linux doesn’t offer any kind of support.

Other problem users face is that the regular technician who repairs their computer refuses even to touch a machine that’s running Linux. So, if you are one of those users disgruntled after encountering a multitude of problems with a fresh Linux install — don’t panic and read on to know some ways in which you could get support for your Linux installation.

using wordpress CLI to post to wordpress

There is a very nice post here: How to post content to a WordPress blog from the command line

I tried this in Fedora 14 and here is the way to get this working in Fedora

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Now, once the above completes make sure that the path /usr/local/bin is in you path.

configuration for afraid-dyndns on Fedora and other similar distro.

First install afraid-dyndns with the command:

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Now open the configuration file /etc/afraid-dyndns.cfg and we need to change the following:

Notify = root@localhost # leave empty to suppress notifications
CacheFile = /var/cache/afraid-dyndns/IP
AccountHash =

For the Account hash, head over to http://freedns.afraid.org/api/ login and then click one of the XML or the ASCII links there. Once the page has loaded, look at the URL which is of form:

bash math

some quick links :

http://mainstreetanswers.org/bash/math.php
http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/mathc.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/mathc.html

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