Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography

2010-09-12 1 min read Photo

Today we will look at how a simple viewer like <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG of Gnome can help you learn some basic things about Photography.

To begin with, we will open eog and then go to :

Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

and enable

<a class="zem_slink" title="Exchangeable image file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">Exif Display

Remove some path from the PATH variable temporarily.

2010-09-04 2 min read Bash Linux

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 a script is executed from some other path. It really difficult to do this if the path is too long and if you end up doing this couple of times. If that is the case, then the below script is for you 🙂

Zabbix error\’d — just for fun

2010-08-28 1 min read Uncategorized

I was woking on Zabbix some days back and here’s a screenshot that I took from Zabbix running on <a class="zem_slink" title="Red Hat" rel="homepage" href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat Enterprise <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux 5. Pretty interesting to see that there is a graph with all the values on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Cartesian coordinate system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system">Y-axis as 3.26GB and still there is a trend on the graph. How many times did you get such graph 🙂

gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.

2010-08-11 2 min read Fedora GNOME Photo

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 also.

Gnome Photo Frame is a photo frame gadget for the <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Desktop. Let’s see how this works.. run the command gphotoframe from a terminal:

Here is what you will see :

Don’t panic on seeing the blank/black page. You need to add the source first. So <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">right click on the window and go to preferences:

Auto Key press fill forms through simulating key presses | Linux.com

2010-07-31 2 min read Bash Linux

This script can be used to repeatedly press <a class="zem_slink" title="Electronic keyboard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_keyboard">keys on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Keyboard (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_%28computing%29">keyboard, it was used to fill out 100 odd entries on a <a class="zem_slink" title="Web page" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page">web page while testing without having to physically enter the data.

Save the code below some where like <a class="zem_slink" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard">/usr/bin/ with what ever file name you like, set the file to be <a class="zem_slink" title="Executable" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable">executable with <a class="zem_slink" title="Chmod" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod">chmod +x /usr/bin/keyrepeat

Typing the current date automaticly in any application with a key binding.

2010-07-20 1 min read Linux

$ 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 class="zem_slink freebase/en/window_manager" title="Window manager" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager">window managers have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/keyboard_shortcut" title="Keyboard shortcut" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_shortcut">key-bindings AFAIK. That works in all softs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/command_line_interface" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">CLI or <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface">GUI…

A Five-Way Linux Distribution Comparison In 2010

2010-07-14 0 min read Linux Uncategorized

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<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 common and famous distributions of <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000dafbd5" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux. Very comprehensive and detailed. Love this guy.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5585048/spotify-streaming-music-player-comes-to-linux">Spotify Streaming Music Player Comes to Linux [Downloads] (lifehacker.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://sathyasays.com/2010/07/13/spotify-for-linux/">Spotify for Linux (sathyasays.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www.zemanta.com/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zemified_c16.gif" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">