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 and here are the steps to do so:
First get the Tora sources from sourceforge.net . Download the source tar file and extract the same.
Continue readingIf 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 the shell does not come up. What to do in that case. You can set the shell to start in fallback mode, where there are more chances that it will come up.
Alas, but you don’t have a shell or desktop session to do that. Simple, start the gnome-shell and before it is killed, do this:
Continue readingFor 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 install cdu
And then you can use “cdu” to view the disk usage in all beautiful colors with the command:
cdu
and the output looks like this:
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Here is one repository that you can add to your Fedora to give it a few more hundred packages:
cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rpm-sphere.repo <<EOF [rpm-sphere] name=RPM Sphere baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/ gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/repodata/repomd.xml.key enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 EOF
Have you ever wanted to have a quick check on your CPU performance. I know that lot of people will say that this is not the right way to do this, but here is something that you can use to check the CPU speed.
#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
# FILE: benchmark.sh
#
# USAGE: ./benchmark.sh
#
# DESCRIPTION: Benchmark the CPU
#
# OPTIONS: ---
# REQUIREMENTS: ---
# BUGS: ---
# NOTES: ---
# AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com
# COMPANY: Roamware India Pvt Ltd
# CREATED: 09/21/2011 11:46:03 AM IST
# Last modified: Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:22PM
# REVISION: ---
#===============================================================================
add ()
{
COUNTER=0
exec 2>&1
time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[ $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
; done))
echo "Time for 100000 additions is "$time
} # ---------- end of function add ----------
mul ()
{
COUNTER=0
test=2
exec 2>&1
time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[ $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
; ((test=test*2));done))
echo "Time for 100000 mul is "$time
} # ---------- end of function add ----------
div ()
{
COUNTER=0
test=1000000000000
exec 2>&1
time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[ $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
; (( test=test/2)); done)|tr -d '\n')
echo "Time for 100000 divisions is "${time}
} # ---------- end of function add ----------
time add
time mul
time div
And here is the output :
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][1]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 petty and the scripts and applications were quite heavy. So, I thought why not conky :).
So, with some quick work on conky script, I was able to get what I wanted and here it is for all of you.
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][1]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 get this working.
Here is what you need to do:
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