Operating Systems
Handy one-liners for SED
2010/09/14
Here are some links to sed one liners, pretty useful if you want to use the power of sed. <a …
Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography
2010/09/12
<img class="size-medium wp-image-2472" title="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/eog-300x218.jpg" …
Remove some path from the PATH variable temporarily.
2010/09/04
How many times has it happened to you that you are working on some linux platform (like Fedora/Ubuntu/CentOS etc) and suddenly you see that you need to remove some path from the PATH variable so that …
Zabbix error\’d — just for fun
2010/08/28
<img class="size-medium wp-image-2432" title="History-Zabbix Error'd" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/History-Zabbix-300x151.jpg" …
gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.
2010/08/11
First install the gphotoframe application with the command : […] sudo yum install gphotoframe […] and if you want gnome-screensaver compatibility then install the package gphotoframe-gss …
Auto Key press fill forms through simulating key presses | Linux.com
2010/07/31
This script can be used to repeatedly press <a class="zem_slink" title="Electronic keyboard" rel="wikipedia" …
Typing the current date automaticly in any application with a key binding.
2010/07/20
$ xvkbd -xsendevent -text $(date +%Y%m%d) I don’t want to waste time to all the time type the current date. I have set this snippet in my kde shortcuts with meta+l. All the <a …
A Five-Way Linux Distribution Comparison In 2010
2010/07/14
<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2010_fiveway&num=1" target="_blank">A five way linux comparison. A very good comparison of the most …
Magic space on the current command line
2010/06/25
# For how to set up magic space for Bash see: # – http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/#slide15 # – http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1690 man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p …
wmctrl – window control manager
2010/06/16
What is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wmctrl" title="Wmctrl" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmctrl">wmctrl? wmctrl is a command that …
IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only
2010/06/15
The other day, I was trying to fix something in my firefox and found that the way to go was to login to IRC and go to the mozilla <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" …
let a cow tell you your fortune
2010/06/03
let a cow tell you your fortune […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> $ fortune | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cowsay" title="Cowsay" …