Fedora
Use GIMP to create awesome looking collage in minutes
2010/06/24
Here is an example to begin with: <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/300x200-dscn0161.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1228" …
Check file usage using fuser
2010/06/24
There is a package called psmisc that provides a useful application fuser. The package provides the below (on fedora): […] /sbin/fuser /usr/bin/killall /usr/bin/peekfd /usr/bin/pstree …
Fedora 11 Leonidas — Fix HDD (Hard Disk) and CD/DVD automount issues for users other than root.
2010/06/22
I have been thinking of putting this for quite some time now. By default no user (other than root) on Fedora 11 has the permission to mount CD/DVD and or ntfs/vfat partitions. So HAL automount does …
Oracle GUI client on Linux with mysql support
2010/06/22
I was looking for some nice client for Oracle and mysql. I did find mysql-administrator and navicat to be useful but this is much better. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/" …
Fixing the Xorg X server after removing nouveau and nvidia and installing a nVidia graphics card.
2010/06/22
I updated my destop configuration recently, well thats not the news. But I was a idiot doing certain things at that time might be something interesting to my readers. I got a <a …
concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs
2010/06/21
$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gzip" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; …
First Fedora 13 Features Listed: NFSv4, DisplayPort
2010/06/11
Fedora 12 will not see the light of day for a few more weeks still, but the first features for Fedora 13 are now known. On the Fedora Project Wiki is now the Fedora 13 feature list. Added so far to …
Let the cow speak what you want it to – ascii art with cowsay
2010/06/11
A picture is worth a thousand words. So here’s the thousand word posting. <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cowsay.jpg"><img …
Play media files in fedora.
2010/06/06
Found <a href="http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100206">here .<div class="smallfont"> Media (DVD, web content, video & audio) playback in Fedora <hr …
How To Install Ailurus On Fedora
2010/06/05
For those who have not yet heard about ailurus: […] <img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" …
Security — Installing and monitoring snort logs.
2010/06/04
Snort is a very good security tool to install if you are concerned about the security of your system. I find it really useful but the problem is I keep forgetting to monitor the logs so what did I do, …