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Display X applications from virtual terminals

2012/05/03

Here is a script that can help you set the proper envirionment to start a gnome-shell from one of the terminals. #!/bin/bash - …

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Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm

2012/02/09

Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner: rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm" …

tora on Fedora 16 for mysql and Oracle.

2012/02/06

Sometime back I had posted a article on Tora on Fedora. But that was a while back and things have progressed and we already have Fedora 16 (aka Verne). So, awhile back I installed Tora on my Fedora 16 …

Set gnome-shell to start in fallback mode without GUI.

2012/01/26

If you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where …

Color disk usage on Fedora

2012/01/21

For this tip, you would need to setup the rpm-shere repository. You can get the information here. Once you have done that you need to install the cdu package with the following command: sudo yum …

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conky script used to monitor server status remotely.

2012/01/12

I was looking for something to monitor few details on the server. I thought about quite a lot of applications, some open source and some scripts developed in house. But my requirements were quite …

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Consistent ethernet device names in Verne

2011/12/13

Fedora now supports consistent device names across the network with bios device names for the ethernet devices. If you upgraded your earlier version of Fedora then you may need to go to root access to …

rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011/12/07

<td> <div class="bash codecolorer"> &nbsp;<span class="kw2">sudo</span> <span class="kw2">yum install</span> rpmorphan …

Linux hardware details.

2011/11/28

Here is one of the scripts that I found on the net while searching for something … Note the URL for the script in the Description.

Add ssh key to remote host

2011/11/15

Image via Wikipedia […] If you are working on recent versions of the *nix OS like Fedora or Ubuntu then you would know about the commad ssh-copy-id. But if you land up using one of the older …

using `!#$’ to referance backward-word

2011/11/03

Image by jeffalldridge via Flickr […] Here is something that I found on the commandlinefu cp /work/host/phone/ui/main.cpp !#$:s/host/target Ah well…its very interesting and very useful. Some …

Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora.

2011/10/30

http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylife-linux/


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