Merry Christmas

2011-12-25 1 min read Uncategorized

Merry Christmas to all.

qemu manager for Windows to run your linux distribution

2011-12-22 1 min read Uncategorized

If you are into virtualization, then you must have heard about Qemu. And if you are on windows then this is a must:

http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm

Political Hotsheet Herman Cain drops out 1 of 9 – CBS News (cbsnews.com)
Romney, Gingrich Proceed Carefully in GOP Showdown – ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Wisconsin rallies to beat Michigan State in Big Ten title game – Chicago Tribune (chicagotribune.com)

Blogging from N900

2011-12-19 1 min read Maemo N900

Can´t get simpler than this. Just install the application called wordpress in your N900, and punch in the details for your blog along with your admin login and password and you have a amazing wordpress client. You can even add photos like the one below:

N900 and its applications keep me amazed and happy 🙂

Nokia N900 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich, Melts Under Pressure (pcworld.com)
N900 takes a bite out of Ice Cream Sandwich, suffers Android brain freeze (video) (engadget.com)
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Running on the Nokia N900 (pocketnow.com)

Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality

2011-12-16 1 min read Learning Solaris

If you work regularly on a Solaris or systems which do not have the “-r” (recursive grep) for grep, then you know what a lifesaver this command can be.

Here is one from command line fu:

find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n", FILENAME, NR, $0; }' {} \;

The benefit of using awk here is that you can print the line number also 🙂

Consistent ethernet device names in Verne

2011-12-13 1 min read Fedora

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Fedora now supports consistent device names across the network with bios device names for the ethernet devices. If you upgraded your earlier version of Fedora then you may need to go to root access to get this working.

Here is what you need to do:

rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011-12-07 2 min read Fedora

Lets first install the rpmorphan package:

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and here is the description of the package:

rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[1] packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, and shows you a list of these packages. It intends to be clone of deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages.

It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example:

Backup of files in the directory.

2011-12-01 2 min read Bash Learning Linux

I was working on some scripts and the changes that I was making in the scripts was very dynamic, which I did want to keep backing up in the version control system. But for the peace of my mind, I wanted to keep a copy of the scripts, whenever it was in working state.

Since I had multiple files, so it would make more sense to have a script that could copy all the files in the current directory to “old” directory without over-writing the existing files. So, I wrote a script that would postfix the files with a number. With this approach, finally what I had was the following:

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