shotwell- Photo organizer for Linux in Gnome

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.

Get a lot of spam — use spamassasin.

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:

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

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;);

#—————————————————————————
# No need to change anything below this.
#—————————————————————————

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

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 is  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:

Blog once and educate 40,000 underprivileged children of India

Here&#8217;s one of the mail that I received from the IndiBlogger team.

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dear <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://www.labnol.org/about.html">Amit Agarwal,

<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is a unique opportunity to reach out and impact thousands of lives through your blog. Yes, sitting at your desk and writing a <a class="zem_slink" title="blog post" rel="homepage" href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130">blog post can help educate 40,000 young Indians all over our country!

<span style="font-size: x-small;">One of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/india" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India’s most trusted and credible <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization">NGOs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/giveindia" title="GiveIndia" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveIndia">GiveIndia is taking part in a competition on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/facebook" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook to win a US$1 million grant. The winner will be the NGO that gets the highest number of votes from Facebook users. The prize of $1 million will help put or keep 40,000 children across India in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/school" title="School" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School">school for one year!

Useful link for grep

<a href="http://lifehacker.com/398441/get-to-know-grep">http://lifehacker.com/398441/get-to-know-grep

whohas

Description: whohas is a command line tool that allows querying several package lists at once – currently supported are Arch, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware. whohas is written in Perl and was designed to help  package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from.

Example output for