install all solaris software from http

If you are behind a firewall and install some software like top or wget then you can not use sunfreeware, and why because ftp is blocked. Now that is not the case any more, you can go the http mirror site of sunfreeware and here is the link for the same

http://ftp.sunfreeware.com/ftp/pub/freeware/i386/5.10/

Note: you just need to change the words in bold for sparc or i386 and version of the solaris.

Using ssmtp to send mail using gmail.

First install the package ssmtp using the command:

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Open the configuration file for ssmtp as root user:

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Make the following changes to the configuration file:

root=**username**@gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
hostname=**username**@gmail.com
UseSTARTTLS=YES
AuthUser=username
AuthPass=password
FromLineOverride=yes

In order to make the default (root) “from” field be the server name,
edit the /etc/ssmtp/revaliases file as root user :

using gnuplot for time plotting

Couple of days back, I was working with some data and wanted to plot it. I had couple of options Excel, ploticus and then our own gnuplot. My choice here was gnuplot, as this is most commonly available and helps me write scripts that can automate my repetitive task. So far, so good. The data I was plotting was against time, that was the problem. Couple of quick searches did not result into any luck to get me on the path and hence with some man pages and some documentation, finally I found this, might be this will be helpful for others.

some bash exercise for you

Here is some teaser for you, can you figure out how this works:

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Related articles

• ovigia: #tips: #Bash Shell Scripts and Tutorials | BashShell.net (bashshell.net)
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• bash math (amit-agarwal.co.in)

Happy Valentines day to all.

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Happy Valentines to all.

Free, But Not Full-Featured Photo editor

http://www.linuxworld.com/reviews/2010/111710-photo-editor-free-but-not.html

Photo! Editor: Free, But Not Full-Featured This free photo editor produces nice images easily, but can’t print or share. By Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta, PC World November 16, 2010 07:21 PM

Photo! Editor (free) is an interesting combination of easy-to-use image editing tools that can produce good results for the person who wants to simply clean up their photos, though the program does have highly limited functionality.

analyze debug queries output for wordpress

Some time back, my website became too slow and I started getting timeout response for quite a lot of my pages. When I analyzed things, I found the issue was with the DB queries taking a lot of time. So, I thought of getting my hands dirty and started with installing the plugin “Debug Queries”. Just in case, you don’t know about the plugin, it lists all the queries to DB along with the time taken for the query when a Admin user visits any page.