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Windows Vs Linux – One more time
2017/04/07
Image via Wikipedia […] One of the most written and commented articles has to be Linux vs Windows (of course there are competitors like vim vs emacs) but none has been covered so much as Linux …
Easily monitor and archive your system log reports.
2015/06/29
If you want to monitor your server logs and also like them to be emailed then just Logwatch may not be sufficient. It sends you a mail but does not archive them, so head over to epylog […] To …
Fedora/Ubuntu issue with assigned IP by dhcp server.
2015/03/13
In the recent versions of Fedora/Ubuntu, I found that if the DHCP server assigns a reserved address, the address is not applied to the system. Finally I found that adding the below in …
x2go – possible replacement to VNC
2014/05/22
If you are accessing you Linux machine from VNC then you can try x2go. Pretty straight forward installation, with packages available for both Ubuntu and Fedora and most other common distros as well. …
Raspberry Pi automate certain tasks – script example
2014/03/10
Now, if you have followed these : fetchmail ssmtp Then you already have a working system for sending and receiving mail. Now, you can set the mda in the fetmailrc to a script which can do few things …
nautilis fork ( File manager ) with tree view in sidebar.
2014/02/09
Was searching for this for sometime now, finally found it. sudo yum install nemo sudo yum list nemo* First just install nemo. Configure nemo not to interfere with default desktop and also make it …
conky transparent window on Fedora with Gnome.
2013/07/22
On Fedora with Gnome-shell 3, its been long time that I was not able to get transparent window. So, finally I thought to spend some time to try to fix that. Finally got that fixed with all the …
Ubuntu hushlogin
2013/03/27
In Ubuntu, if you do not like all the information that comes when you do a remote login, then you just need to do this:
steam on Linux – for Fedora
2013/02/22
I was trying to get steam on linux on my Fedora box. Headed over to steam website, but was astonished to find only Ubuntu client over there. A little googling presented me with the developer website …
Ubuntu – Really force remove a package.
2012/09/17
I was trying to remove a package on one of the Ubuntu installations the other day and was not able to do so. I tried google and tried all the options mentioned in various forums like “-f”, purge, …
script for changing gnome-terminal color schemes.
2012/08/25
Earlier I had posted this. So, if you want to try all of these schemes, then you need not have to copy paste the schemes from the web page, you can try the below script. # function idleToes() { …
Ubuntu setup – post installation script
2012/07/03
If you have done a new installation of Ubuntu or Fedora, then yuou know you have to search all kind of blogs to find out what all to install. So, here is a easier way to do that. Just run this script, …