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
sudo yum install uptimed
Once installed, you will have to first create the boot id with this command:
Continue readingHere 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.
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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:
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 🙂
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Here are some pretty good links on the subject. Since there are already so many blog posts, does not make sense to add one more 🙂
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/c816.html
http://www.gilesorr.com/bashprompt/prompts/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84386
Bash themes – http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2006/02/02/bash_themes.html
Well, if you are a professional who has to keep referring to RFC, then you know how good it would be to have the RFC downloaded and kept in your computer. But then unless you can search it and use and editor with it, its of not much use. So, here is something that you can do :
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