Happy Diwali wishes

All the BEST and my best wishes for Diwali to all my readers.

<img title="Diwali Wishes" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/diwali-fireworks-cc-sumith-meher.jpg" alt="Diwali Wishes" width="800" height="799" />

<img title="Diwali Celebrations" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/windowslivewriteramazingbangaloreasolaceinpictures-a3b8diwali21.png" alt="Diwali Celebrations" width="640" height="382" />

Sorry about the delay in the wishes.. was held up with one of my 250GB HDD crashing..

Alexa ranking improved by 1000%

I just checked my <a id="aptureLink_XU7RJWNcFG" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa%20rank">Alexa ranking and guess what, I have a 1000% change in last 7 days. Thanks to all my readers.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/amit-agarwal.alexa_.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1423" title="amit-agarwal.alexa" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/amit-agarwal.alexa_.jpg" alt="amit-agarwal.alexa" width="671" height="340" />

Using snmp trap receiver on Fedora (Linux)

First off install the net-snmp things:

sudo yum install net-snmp net-snmp-utils

After that it will run out of the box with the command:

sudo snmptrapd -A -d -n -Lf trap.log

Some interesting links:

<a class="fixed" href="http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/TUT:snmptrap" target="_blank">http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/TUT:snmptrap
<a class="fixed" href="http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/TUT:Configuring_snmptrapd#Matching_SNMPv2_OIDs" target="_blank">http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/TUT:Configuring_snmptrapd#Matching_SNMPv2_OIDs
<a class="fixed" href="http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/tutorial-5/commands/snmptrap.html" target="_blank">http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/tutorial-5/commands/snmptrap.html

internal error from PackageKit — packagekit Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>

If you get the below error then there is a bug files <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476352" target="_blank">here.

Error Type:
Error Value: &#8217;NoneType&#8217; object is unsubscriptable
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2280, in

main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2277, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 600, in
dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 526, in
dispatch_command
self.refresh_cache()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1130, in
refresh_cache
self.yumbase.repos.populateSack(which=[repo.id], mdtype=&#8217;metadata&#8217;,
cacheonly=1)
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 223, in
populateSack
self.doSetup()
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 71, in doSetup
self.ayum.plugins.run(&#8217;postreposetup&#8217;)
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py, line 178, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File : /usr/lib/yum-plugins/rpm-warm-cache.py, line 31, in postreposetup_hook
if commands[0] in (&#8217;upgrade&#8217;, &#8217;install&#8217;, &#8217;remove&#8217;):

Continue reading

Google wave invite available with me..

I have couple of invitations available with me for <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google <a class="zem_slink" title="Google Wave" rel="homepage" href="http://wave.google.com/">wave, if you want one, please leave a comment and I will send you one.<div id="aptureLink_gG6E7IBDeY" style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;">