Amit Agarwal

Here’s a quick tip for faster DNS response time. I installed a local DNS server which can contact the remote DNS server and enabled caching for the local DNS server. This ensures that the …

$ rm !(.foo|.bar|*.baz) Deletes all files in a folder that are NOT *.foo, *.bar or *.baz files. Edit the pattern inside the brackets as you like. […] <a …

gdmsetup is the command you are looking for… Just run gdmsetup and you get a whole lot of configurations that you can modify.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category There are a lot of reasons to customize your own Linux kernel: better performance, bugfixes, try out new …

<a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/do-not-close-stderr.html">A few years ago, I wrote a post commenting on how ugly this was: $ someprog 2>/dev/null I was nearly imploring the …

Tech Source From Bohol: &#8221;To help you further enhance the functionality of GIMP, I have here a huge collection of awesome, high-quality brushes that can be utilized for whatever projects you …

Head over to Firefox addons site for persona <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900" target="_blank">here. This addon will give you the ability to …

$ eject -i 1 This command will lock the hardware eject button of your cdrom drive. Some uses are: 1: If you have a toddler and has discovered the cdrom button 2: If you are carrying a laptop in a bag …

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/perl-one-liners.jpg" alt="Perl One Liners" align="bottom" />This is the fourth part of a …

Some information on Panini: […] Panini can load most common photo and <a class="zem_slink" title="Panorama" rel="wikipedia" …

I am liking fvwm more and more. Rather I went ahead to get the themes and icons for fvwm and am quite happy with the amount of customization I can do with the WM. So, I found the themes page for the …

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