IE8 – Developer Tools

2013-04-15 1 min read Uncategorized

Don’t start banging me for this, but I had to test something on Windows and thus found out this. I f you need to debug or test something on IE8 on Windows, then you can simply press “F12” and this will bring up the developer tools… could be useful to you, sometime if you are stuck with testing something on IE on windows 🙂

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ss – anothre utility to investigate sockets.

2013-04-11 1 min read Fedora Linux

ss is :

ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informationsthan other tools.

This comes in iproute package in Fedora. So, to install this you would need to install “iproute” if not installed already.

sudo yum install iproute

Now, once you have done that you can look at the man page to check what all you can see with ss. but here are some examples:

dwb – keyboard driven browser

2013-04-08 1 min read Fedora

First off, install using the command

sudo yum install dwb

Now for the description:

dwb is small webkit-based web-browser in the spirit of tiling window managers,that aims to be mostly keyboard-driven.

I liked the fact that it does well what it tries to do and pretty good at being fast.

Ubuntu hushlogin

2013-03-27 1 min read Uncategorized

In Ubuntu, if you do not like all the information that comes when you do a remote login, then you just need to do this:

touch ~/.hushlogin

duff – find duplicate files.

2013-03-19 1 min read Fedora

duff – description:

Description : Duff is a command-line utility for quickly finding d

AURA Console (Photo credit: jameswatts.solfenix)

uplicates in a
given set of files

and now time to execute :

find . -type f -print0|duff -e0|xargs -0

This will print a list of duplicate files. If you directly want to delete them then you can use them in a rm command directly like ::

dnsmasq not starting from NetworkManager with SELinux enabled.

2013-03-16 1 min read Fedora Learning Linux

OpenWrt - Dnsmasq — OpenWrt – Dnsmasq (Photo credit: magicfab)

Some time back I posted on dnsmasq starting from Network Manager and how to setup dnsmasq.

Now, couple of days back , I setup dnsmasq in NetworkManager but was astonished to see that there was no dnsmasq running. I checked with dig and saw that there was no response from localhost for dns queries. Checked “ps -eaf|grep dns” and found that there was no dnsmasq running. I knew that once you mention “dns=dnsmasq” in the NetworkManager then it should start up but that was not happening. And then I checked audit log, found that some permissions were denied by SELinux.