powertwitter for firefox- twitter with new look

<a title="Power Twitter" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591" target="_blank">Power Twitter is a addon for firefox that gives twitter a new look with a lot of features. Here is the list of features:

Power <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/twitter" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter adds features to the Twitter <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/user_interface" title="User interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface">Web interface including:

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Fedora 11 - Mount options for vfat and other volumes for automount.

I have been searching to look for how to change the default umask and dmask for the auto-mounted directories. I searched all the google and bing pages that I could, but to no avail. But I found some interesting info though.

Fedora now uses DeviceKit for managing the disks and Devicekit calls udev for actually mounting and unmounting the disks. The operation is controlled by policykit to determine who can do what?

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Some bashrc shorcuts for faster and profiecient directory browsing.

Here are some of the funtions that I have in my bashrc to make my life simple. They are not written by me but mostly taken from other places, but modified by me to some extent to suit my needs. If you know the original creator of these, let me know so I can add the attribution for the same.

This one is very useful.

.. (){
local arg=${1:-1};
local dir=&#8221;&#8221;
while [ $arg -gt 0 ]; do
dir=&#8221;../$dir&#8221;
arg=$(($arg – 1));
done
cd $dir >&/dev/null
}

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Build custom KDE ditro online in minutes with your selection of packages

There&#8217;s a new guy in the block and its called NimbleX. From various sources, I have found that this is quite fast. I am downloading this currently. The main advantage is that the distro is of just 200MB with most of the day to day utilities available in the distro by default.

<img title="Custom Nimble" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads//logos/customNXb1.png" alt="Custom Nimble" width="264" height="67" />

And if you think that this is just not for you as you like some package and its missing from NimbleX, no problem. Just go <a href="http://custom.nimblex.net/ " target="_blank">here, and create your own live distro withing minutes with custom package&#8217;s that can be used as Live CD or can be installed on the HDD/USB. Now that&#8217;s generations ahead of Windows or any other OS. What do you say?

Xoost – Search engine

<a title="Xoost Search engine" href="http://www.xoost.com" target="_blank">Xoost is a community search engine. From Xoost page:

Imagine you are searching for a topic related to your favourite Music, Travel destinations, Events. With Xoost you will benefit from the exponential value of doing it much more productively together with your friends or family members. It’s all about sharing Search skills & Knowledge.

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101 Linux hacks – free Linux Ebook

Go and grab your copy of the free <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGeekStuff/~3/KNUpyY4YE9c/" target="_blank">ebook.

Quite nice book with small little hacks but sometimes the details are too much, specially the one on the cd command. I think there was no need for 3-4 examples of the same thing, but then nice collection and nice ebook.

Bash script to view log and config file in different server and paths.

I was working on a project, where I need to open file from different servers and different paths. I do it with the command:

vim ftp://username@server/path/filename

This is okay when the path is short but when the path gets longer and I have different config files to open from the same path or their associated logs, then it becomes un-necessary typing. So, I did the following:

Have a file with some aliase&#8217;s like the below and source it from the bashrc file: