cURL – Tutorial

2010-09-15 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

Here are linkw to two nice tutorials on curl and how to use curl to login before we try to fetch a page. Hope you find them useful.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcgQUsorF_8

http://scriptasy.com/php_11/tutorial-curl-login_44.html

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15 (More) Awesome Conky Configurations

2010-09-13 0 min read Fedora Linux
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15 (More) Awesome <a class="zem_slink" title="Conky (software)" rel="homepage" href="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">Conky Configurations You may have already seen our list of awesome Conky scripts or configurations, and perhaps applied or used some of them on your own <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux desktop. Since that collection was quiet popular, I decided to scour the web once again to gather more Conky scripts that I could share with all of you. Now, here is another list of some of the most excellent and unique conky configurations that you could freely use. Enjoy!

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Over 50 Free, Must-Have Open Source Resources

2010-07-27 0 min read Linux
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OStatic: &#8221;n this post, you&#8217;ll find an updated set of more than 45 collections and resources. Hopefully, you&#8217;ll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.&#8221;

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List of commands you use most often

2010-07-25 1 min read Bash Linux

$ history | <a class="zem_slink" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head > /tmp/cmds | <a class="zem_slink" title="Gnuplot" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">gnuplot -persist <(echo 'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes') Plot your most used commands with gnuplot.

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Adding border to images.

2010-07-18 1 min read Photo

A very simple script to add border to images :
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*for i in .jpg; do montage -geometry 720×576 -background black -quality 100 $i conv-$i; done


This is one line that you can run the directory containing all your images and all the files with extension of &#8221;jpg&#8221; will be assumed to be images and the command run on them to add the border. The border is black in color and quality of the border is 100%.

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6700 free and redistributable fonts for Linux.

2010-06-25 1 min read Fedora Linux

Today I was searching for some good fonts for my desktop running Fedora 11 – Leonidas. In my quest to find the required fonts that I would liked, I reached some good sites so just thought would share the same with you.

First, how do you use them, simple steps:

mkdir ~/.fonts

Now you can put your fonts in this directory. You can make sub-directories to keep your fonts organized. On F11, I did not need to refresh the font server or logout and login. 🙂

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