Linux
Some Rather Old But Still Funny Anti-UNIX Jokes (One Liners)
2009/12/28
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/unix-jokes1.jpg"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/unix-jokes1.jpg" …
Nifty Things to Do with GIMP
2009/12/26
Nifty Things to Do with GIMP Some of us are probably addicted to capturing moments in pictures. I can understand why. It’s one of those things that help us go back to the good old days, so to speak. …
query and downgrade selected packages based on version or repository
2009/12/24
If you have worked on rpm based distro then you know how difficult it is to downgrade packages. And unluckily I upgraded some packages to fc12 and was still on FC11. Completely my mistake while doing …
EncFS – Simple article to use Encrypted filesystem in Linux
2009/12/24
A nice article here EncFS is an easy-to-use, command-line tool for storing information in encrypted form. It’s not really a file-system, but it pretends to be one at the CLI. If you’ve been searching …
Initialization or clearing of log files
2009/12/22
Like all Unix file systems, open log files can cause a real problem when they get too large and need to be deleted. The problem is, if you delete an open file, the link is removed, but all of the …
7 Examples for Sed Hold and Pattern Buffer Operations
2009/12/22
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35237104750@N01/259102613"><img id="kwiclick-temp-0" title="txt e-book" …
Change information for the user on Linux machine.
2009/12/19
Today I have couple of hours to spare and thus thought might as well spend it on my blog. The finger command in *nix systems is used to display the information on the users. This information is taken …
Chrome – Chromium on Linux (repo)
2009/12/19
Fedora people put up a repo for the chrome web browser and it is quite frequently updated. All you need to do to install the browser is following: […] sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/chrome.repo …
Tip: Using find Command in Linux
2009/12/10
Ok this I was planning for quite sometime.. but found this <a href="http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/tip-using-find-command-in-linux" target="_blank">here. Worth reading for …
One click install for Linux systems.
2009/12/08
There has been this concept for quite sometime that there should be one click install for the applications in Linux. This applies to the themes and widgets of wordpress too 🙂 and quite some …
Pipeing linux commands and their output
2009/12/08
As a system administrator, I always worry about certain things, like who's doing what, what processes are running, what the network traffic looks like, etc. One day I decided to create a simple alias …
Linux Installation Guide
2009/11/25
Paradise for Linux Installation Guides on laptops is <a href="http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html" target="_blank">here. Can you imagine that this tuxmobile page hosts around …