Windows Vs Linux – One more time

2017-04-07 5 min read Linux Uncategorized
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 vs Windows. So, what am I going to write here which is not covered earlier in so many other posts. Well a little different perspective 🙂 We will take this post in points so that we do not divert and its easier for you to comment with quotes to point number 🙂 Continue reading

sxiv – image viewer

2013-12-06 1 min read Fedora Photo
sxiv is a nice alternative to feh. It is very light weight and quite useful. Here is the description: Description : sxiv is an alternative to feh and qiv. Its only dependency besides xlib is imlib2. The primary goal for writing sxiv is to create an image viewer, which only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing (the ones I want). It works nicely with tiling window managers and its code base Continue reading

cksum – compare for multiple files.

2013-04-30 1 min read Fedora Learning Linux
If you have to compare cksum for couple of files, the you know how cumbersome it is. So, I wrote a simple script, wherein you can create a file called cksums in the current directory and copy paste the result of “**cksums ***” into this file, and then run this script. Cool 🙂 #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: checkcksums.sh # # USAGE: ./checkcksums.sh # # DESCRIPTION: Compare cksums of multiple files. Continue reading

IE8 – Developer Tools

2013-04-15 1 min read Uncategorized
Don’t start banging me for this, but I had to test something on Windows and thus found out this. I f you need to debug or test something on IE8 on Windows, then you can simply press “F12” and this will bring up the developer tools… could be useful to you, sometime if you are stuck with testing something on IE on windows 🙂 Related articles Microsoft’s Revamped ‘Modern.IE’ Offers Free Windows Virtual Machines Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers, A $25 USB Stick With Windows 8 Pro And Parallels For Mac Microsoft Updates Modern. Continue reading

slow ssh connection

2013-02-26 1 min read Linux
If you are experiencing slow ssh connections, then possibly your system is trying to do reverse lookup of the IP address. If that is the case, then you can add the below to “hosts” line in /etc/nsswitch.conf file. ‘[NOTFOUND=return]’ The other cause for slow connections can be GSSAPI authentication. If that is the case, then the simplest solution is to add the following in your “~/.ssh/config” file: GSSAPIAuthentication no Related articles ssh reverse tunning. Continue reading
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