As usual time in couple of days to upgrade to Fedora 17. Release schedule is for 05/22 and so its just around the corner. So, if you are looking at upgrading using yum, then make sure that you visit this page.
There are some changes in latest version that will not allow you to upgrade without executing few commands manually and that page lists them. And if you are too brave and just want the steps and the command then here it is:
Continue readingOnce the systemd unit and service files have come into being, understanding of the system services have changed a little bit and it might require some time to understand the cli tools for managing these services and units. That being the case, systemadm comes to rescue. This is a simple tool which :
Graphical front-end for systemd.
For installation :
sudo yum install systemd-gtk
And here’s a screenshot::
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:
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Here is a nice link on BASH History Expansion. There are lot of examples in this page and some of them might be quite useful. But here are my list of favourites:
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This is probably the most used one by me. This will repeat the last command. And this works even in conjunction with other commands like
Continue readingIf you ever wondered what combination of some colors would look like but did not really feel like setting them in your xterm just to check them out. Or if you wanted to know about all the colors on you X window system then you can install this utility called xcolorsel.
][1]You will need to setup the rpm-shere repo for this.
Continue readingWell, you would already have some themes for your vim, by default. And if you did not like them then you would have added some of your own too (downloaded from vim.org). But, those are something, that you might not still like and want to make some changes.
Here’s, a new way to do it. Just go to the link mentioned below and click on Generate Dark or Generate Light. You can generate as many as you like and once you like the theme, simply click on vim in the bottom and download 🙂 BTW, you can generate textmate and Emacs theme as well.
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][1]Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner:
rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm"
But if you like the hard way out, then you can always try this.
