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, …
redet – build regular expression (regex) for any program.
2010/06/04
Even if someone is a regex guru there are times that people get confused with some regular expression and want to either test it out or want to some help. Behold, redet is here. Lets start with …