command line cheat sheet for begineers.

2010-05-17 1 min read Linux

A list of commands with some examples posted by Ian <a href="http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2009/08/command-line-cheatsheet.html" target="_blank">here. Looks good for new comers to Linux OS 🙂

Contd:: Evaluation of Distro\’s

2010-05-17 4 min read Linux

<a href="www.foresightlinux.org/" target="_blank">Foresight Foresight is a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, giving users convenient and enjoyable access to their music, photos, videos, documents, and Internet resources. <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-270" title="Foresight" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/1-300x225.jpg" alt="Foresight" width="300" height="225" /> I liked their logo. Quite simple and intutive. <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-271" title="Foresight Foreground" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2-300x225.jpg" alt="Foresight Foreground" width="300" height="225" /> Logo goes quite well with the Foreground image. Continue reading

SendEmail using perl script in Windows or Linux using any SMTP account.

2010-05-16 1 min read Linux

Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/email" rel="tag">email, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/sendEmail" rel="tag">sendEmail, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Perl" rel="tag">Perl There is a very nice little utility or rather SMTP client program called sendmail (<a href="http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/">Link — http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/). This can be used in Windows or Linux or any other OS with perl installed and few other perl modules installed. Its quite easy to use and comes in quite handy to send emails. In later posts we will see how we can use this in various ways : sending mail from your browser, from your editor or even from the command line or shell script. Continue reading

Downloading all related videos from youtube with youtube-dl

2010-05-16 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized

How many time did you want to see all the videos (related) to the one you were watching on youtube but decided otherwise as the downloaded was not fast enough. Or has it happened to you that you wanted to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uploading_and_downloading" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">download all the related videos, in either case you can use the youtube-dl utility I blogged about some times back. First you need to get all the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uniform_resource_locator" title="Uniform Resource Locator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading

6000+ truetype fonts for Linux

2010-05-13 1 min read Linux

Found a huge collection of fonts for linux. These are true type fonts and really a huge collection. <a href="http://thelinuxbox.org/downloads/fonts/fonts.tar.gz">get here updated: Forgot to mention that you can update the font cache without restarting the font server by executing the below command: fc-cache -fv

Removing duplicate RPMS.

2010-05-12 1 min read Linux

Got the script mainly with google search on the <a href="http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2006-12/msg04156.html">link. Nice trick.. Get the list of rpms with just the names rpm -qa –queryformat ’%{name}\n’ > pkglist Get the non-uniques list. sort -g pkglist | uniq -d > duplicates Get the versions of the duplicate files: for pkg in `cat duplicates`; do rpm -q $pkg » removelist done Now keep the rpms that you want to delete in the removelist Continue reading

vi – the powerful Linux/Unix text editor

2010-05-12 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

We will talk about some vi stuff today: Some fun first–> 1) <a href="http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=664">http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=664 2) help 42 Ok, coming to serious things- References: 3) Linux cheat sheet: <a href="http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html">http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html 4) <a href="http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/">http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/ 5) <a href="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands">http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands Commands and tips: 6) Something that is difficult to find on the net is : how to create a numbered list in vi/vim? Simple, we will use macro's To do this: a> type number and terminatory ex: 1) Continue reading

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