A Unix/Linux cheatsheet complete in most respects.

Find <a href="http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml" target="_blank">here. This is a very nice tutorial all in one page and browsable.

It covers :

1.   System
2.   Processes
3.   File System
4.   Network
5.   SSH SCP
6.   VPN with SSH
7.   RSYNC
8.   SUDO
9.   Encrypt Files
10.   Encrypt Partitions
11.   SSL Certificates
12.   CVS
13.   SVN
14.   Useful Commands
15.   Install Software
16.   Convert Media
17.   Printing
18.   Databases
19.   Disk Quota
20.   Shells
21.   Scripting
22.   Programming
23.   Online Help

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Desktop with cairo-dock

Just love the look now.

Heres the screenshot:

<img class="size-full wp-image-472" title="Desktop" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/desk.jpg" alt="Desktop" width="840" height="525" />

Note: I am using this and definately this is a big improvement over the previous versions. Here is the blog from gnome blog:

After more than a year of heavy development, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/networkmanager" title="NetworkManager" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager">NetworkManager 0.8 was unleashed on the world a few weeks ago.  While we obviously couldn’t make everyone happy just yet, this release includes a ton of great stuff.  Much of it is under the hood, so while it won’t dazzle you in a blinding flash of light, it should still make your head explode.

bash script to change the vim colorscheme from the list of locally available schemes

Today I was just wondering how good it would be to have a script to change the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim colorscheme from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cmd_exe" title="Command Prompt" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Prompt">command prompt. The plan for the script was simply to print the list of available schemes and then let the user select the actions from there on. So, here is the result:

5 Ways to Print Folder and Directory Contents in Windows

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<img SRC="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TNail1.png" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="" BORDER="0"/>It’s one of those simple tasks that suddenly come upon us and we have no idea how to go about it. I had a whole fat folder filled with ebooks and someone casually asked me to send over a list. A list… that sounds really simple.

Did I forget to mention that the ebook folder was really filled with a lot of titles? It must have had almost 120 ebooks. I almost started manually typing the names when I figured that there must be a less laborious way to print out the directory contents.