Blog worth mentioning on linux.com

2010-01-21 1 min read Linux

Go to the blog <a href="http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/linux-command-line.html" target="_blank">here. I am specially interested to find out if this is a joke or what? Could not find out, if you do let me know in the comment.

shotwell- Photo organizer for Linux in Gnome

2010-01-21 2 min read Fedora Linux Photo

Here is description of shotwell:

Shotwell is a new <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/open_source" title="Open Source" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Open_Source">open source photo organizer designed for the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnome" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/desktop_environment" title="Desktop environment" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment">desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from your camera, view and edit them, and share them with others.

Link to shotwell:

<a href="http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/" target="_blank">http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

Here are some <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/screenshot" title="Screenshot" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot">screenshots from the application.

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Get a lot of spam β€” use spamassasin.

2010-01-19 1 min read Fedora Linux

If you get a lot of spam into your local inbox and do not want your service provider to filter them for you, like me :), then you can use spamassasin.

The benefit with this approach is that all the spam will be delivered to your local inbox and you do not need to do anything on the server. You can blacklist, whitelist, report message as spam all on your client and it would not change anything on the server. So you control your mail, isn&#8217;t that great. What to do, start with minimal things:

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Perl script to create csv files with a pattern – Generic script.

2010-01-19 1 min read Learning Linux Perl

I was having a really bad day and needed a quick solution to create some csv files. And this I needed to do for multiple data kinds and patterns, so I created this small script to do the job for me…

#Number of rows required in the output.

$rows = 100;

#The config and the output file

open (CF_FILE, &#8221;<Config.test&#8221;);
open (OUT_FILE, &#8221;>test.csv&#8221;);

#β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”
# No need to change anything below this.
#β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”

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Mail Server Setup With Exim, MySQL, Cyrus-Imapd, Horde Webmail

2010-01-18 1 min read Fedora

I was thinking of doing this for some time but never got time to do this. So finally I took some time off yesterday to do the setup. <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/exim-mysql-cyrus-imapd-horde-centos5.1-p2" target="_blank">Here isΒ  a good link on the instructions for the CentOS, but on Fedora also they hold good.

So what you need to do is basically install exim, imp, horde, horde-enhanced and cyrus* packages and then configure imap server and exim to do the mailing part and setup horde to view the mail. To install the packages use the command below:

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