Linux
Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832
2011/04/02
Slackware released the next version a few days back and guess the complete name : Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832. You must be crazy to tell the complete version to anyone. …
sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.
2011/03/30
I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory. To install: …
use finch, less memory and cpu usage, in replacement for pidgin.
2011/03/27
Well, if you are on linux then you have options – is a known fact. But how those options help? I was working on a machine which had very less RAM and was quite old system and it was running F14. Guess …
Try all colors in xterm with script before setting the color
2011/03/18
If you are looking for testing the colors on how they would look like in the xterm before you set the color then here is a small script for you. […] <td> <div class="text …
cd across parallel directories
2011/03/14
Image via Wikipedia […] Here is a simple and fast way to cd across parallel directory.
Using ssmtp to send mail using gmail.
2011/02/19
First install the package ssmtp using the command: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> sudo yum install ssmtp </div> </td> </tr> Open the …
vino – connect to running GNome session like RDP
2011/02/04
One thing that all of us Linux users have probably missed is connecting to the running GNome session to see what is going on in the running session. This can be quite handy in couple of situations: …
shopt causes bash completion to stop working.
2011/01/25
Couple of days, I added some scripts to my bash startup and suddenly realized that bash completions stopped working. This is tricky situation in bash to figure out what went wrong. So, I set my foot …
Linux humour – tar is coward
2011/01/18
Some errors are too good and though you would have seen them couple of times you don’t realize until sometimes it just hits you, like the one below: […] tar: Cowardly refusing to create an …
New feature in Nautilus – resize icon on desktop.
2011/01/10
On Desktop on Gnome using nautilus, now you can resize individual icons. Just right click on the icon to resize and in the menu you will get a resize icon : […] and then you can resize the icon …
Shell Scripting
2011/01/05
Here are some links for bash programming that you may find useful. http://tips-linux.net/en/content/pro-bash-programming http://tips-linux.net/en/content/expert-shell-scripting …
Execute a command with a timeout
2010/12/29
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