A lot of you must have heard about E16 desktop and lot others would have heard about the compiz. Think about the sheer beauty of the desktop for the combination of the 2. See some screenshots here. I haven\’t tried the distro till now but am in the process of downloading the development version right now. Would try it from live media and install it if that looks great.
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Continue readingI was planning to put down my thougths on lot of other things but then one of the mails in my mailbox took my attention today. I had a mail from indiblogger.in stating that my page rank was 81. So, that was something good, for a person, who takes out time from family and office to blog. Not bad, huh.
Earlier I had not looked at Google ranking and Alexa ranking. I came to know that I have a google ranking of 3 and Alexa ranking of 1.87M, considered quite good by indiblogger. Looks good to me. What do you say.
Continue readingJust for fun, somedays back I was reading the top command. This command is something that I have been using since long time and have never read the man page so I thought let me do that. And yes, it was worth while to look at that page. I came to know that top supports toprc file and that it can be used to configure the way top looks. So:
Continue readingIn Linux you can use diff command to find the differences in file.
What is interesting is that you can use ”diff -u” to list the differences with ’+’ and ’-’ rather than sometimes confusing ’>’ and '<’.
Running the regular diff between two text files to see the differences is not so elegant for the human eye to decode. Luckily there are plenty of tools out there to make this easy.
Continue readingI have been putting this off for quite some time, finally I added the mail support on my blog. You can subscribe to comments or new posts or newsletters. Just click on subscribe on the main page. On the confirmation page you can select your options for the subscription (newletters or otherwise). Be sure that your email ID will not be used by me or I will not sell them 🙂
Continue readingI am quite regular visitor of milw0rm and generally try to keep up with the vul’s. For doing this I wrote a small scripts rather set of scripts to keep myself update. Here’s what we are going to do:
Get the latest tar from the site.
Extract it.
Make the index
Have a shortcut to search the index.
Download the attached files for the first 2 points. <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/makeindex-milw0rm.sh">makeindex-milw0rm and <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/udpate-milw0rm.sh">udpate-milw0rm
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