Your own local search engine.

2012-04-09 1 min read Fedora Learning Uncategorized

There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution.

You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions.

download omega from http:// xapian.org/download

yum install xapian libuuid-devel

And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions.

Create index using command omindex
and then you can use quest or search.py to search or you can setup the cgi way so that you can use local browser to search.

uptimed – keep track of your system uptime.

2012-04-02 1 min read Fedora

Uptimed is an up time record daemon keeping track of the highest
up times the system ever had.

Uptimed has the ability to inform you of records and milestones
though syslog and e-mail, and comes with a console front end to
parse the records, which can also easily be used to show your
records on your Web page

Installation :

sudo yum install uptimed

Once installed, you will have to first create the boot id with this command:

pigz -parallel gzip

2012-03-26 1 min read Fedora Linux

Here is a short description of pigz:

pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip,
is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits
multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.

And for the installation:

sudo yum install pigz

With pigz, if you don’t have many things running on your multi processor machine then you will see a significant improvement when you are gzipping the files.

visio support comes to Linux with loads of new features of LibreOffice.

2012-03-17 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

LibreOffice 3.5 was released few days back with loads of features and improvements. Most bragged about feature should be capability to read visio diagrams. You can read the full list of features here. And here are some interesting features:

Better UI for header/footer handling. Easily add header or footers. Quickly see what is edited with new changing text boundaries. Quickly edit or remove headers and footers without going through page styles formatting. (Cédric Bosdonnat)
New faster built-in grammar checker for English and several other languages. (László Németh)
New multi-line input bar in Calc. The arrow-control at the end of the toolbar allows to switch this on/off. (Anurag Jain, Noel Power)
Import filter for Microsoft Visio documents. (Fridrich Štrba, Eilidh McAdam, Valek Filippov)
Custom Shapes import was greatly enhanced, many bugs were fixed and new presets implementation added. (Radek Doulik)
and many more…

The Bright Future of LibreOffice (pcworld.com)
LibreOffice 3.5 Released (news.slashdot.org)
Jono Bacon: Kudos, LibreOffice (jonobacon.org)
Intel backs Libre Office by joining The Document Foundation (thetechscoop.net)

cream bash ide – vim with bash support

2012-03-14 1 min read Fedora Linux Uncategorized

English: Screenshot of graphical vim (gvim) sh... — Image via Wikipedia

Here you can find the cream editor. This is basically vim editor with lots of customizations thus making it simpler for the users to use the editor directly.

This version already has the bash and perl support plugins and thus you can start using them as IDE without the need to add any plugins. It has a simple and advanced mode. In the simple mode you need not worry about all the modes of the vi/vim editor. How cool is that 🙂