To use this, you will need the lynx tool, so install that first.
sudo yum install lynx
Now, to get list of all the URLs in local html file or some URL, just execute this:
lynx -dump -listonly
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I was getting really bad battery life on my Fedora 19 system, and did not find much on how to tune it. Finally I found something that just does not need much configuration but works pretty well. So, here is what you need to do:
sudo yum install tuned tuned-adm
The second package, tuned-adm installs additional themes for power saving. It is optional and not mandatory. Once you have installed these, you can do the following:
Continue readingI was trying to remove a package on one of the Ubuntu installations the other day and was not able to do so. I tried google and tried all the options mentioned in various forums like “-f”, purge, reinstall and few others but nothing helped. I kept getting some errors about some files being already deleted. I also tried “set -e” in the prompt but the only result I got was terminal also getting killed.
Continue readingFirefox 15 has arrived and there is lot to brag about. Since there are already many blogs on this, so just giving you a link to one of those. But what is most interesting is the integration of PDF.js. It is a new html5 + javascript based pdf viewer.
And to enable this viewer all you need to do is go to “about:config“. Search for pdfjs and set pdfjs.disabled to “FALSE” and your browser is all set to use the inline pdf viewer.
Continue readingUptimed is an up time record daemon keeping track of the highest
up times the system ever had.Uptimed has the ability to inform you of records and milestones
though syslog and e-mail, and comes with a console front end to
parse the records, which can also easily be used to show your
records on your Web page
sudo yum install uptimed
Once installed, you will have to first create the boot id with this command:
Continue readingHere is a short description of pigz:
pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip,
is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits
multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
And for the installation:
sudo yum install pigz
With pigz, if you don’t have many things running on your multi processor machine then you will see a significant improvement when you are gzipping the files.
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][1]Can´t get simpler than this. Just install the application called wordpress in your N900, and punch in the details for your blog along with your admin login and password and you have a amazing wordpress client. You can even add photos like the one below:
N900 and its applications keep me amazed and happy 🙂
