taskcoach – one of the best approach to manage your tasks

Task coach is task planner with reminder, subtask and time tracking, simply put. More elaborate description :

Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities.  Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

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Browser Conkeror – fast, versatile, easy and configurable

Conkeror is a browser that uses XULRunner and is a highly configurable and programmable browser.

Here is the description of the browser from the homepage:

Conkeror is a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi. Conkeror features a sophisticated keyboard system, allowing users to run commands and interact with content in powerful and novel ways. It is self-documenting, featuring a powerful interactive help system.

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Eagle in the sky

Let the pics speak for themselves…

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More cloud photos for your eyes.

Isn’t the sky too beautiful… If you are looking through a camera (likes of Nikon D5000) then it looks more beautiful and just leaves a mark in photographs…..

Here are some pics that I took and make some really good wallpaper stuff.

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List all the rpms by size – quick way to find out what is eating your disk space in root partition

Here is a quick command to check the list of installed packages by their size in reverse order. Very useful if you want to remove unwanted rpms just to clean up some space on your disk:

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      rpm -q -a --qf "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" | sort -k1,1nr |more
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Sample output:

78070452    kernel
78060477    kernel
50708634    jre
50316408    libgcj
48581593    wireshark
47778643    gimp
47674675    jre
47303084    qt-x11
45838912    otrs
45657248    chromium-libs
42070128    wxPython

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Quick tip on zipping logs in real time.

Sometimes, some small things that we don’t actually think can be useful are such useful. I faced this couple of days back when I was working on something and the amount of logs getting generated and the files getting rotated was too fast. If I had to use this for sometime, I needed some script, application or something to make sure that the logs are zipped every few seconds. Finding an application for this would take time and what good is bash if we need to find applications for this. So, a simple bash command did the trick. Most of us would know this but applying it and using it at the right time, was what saved my life. Thanks to bash. Here is the command:

Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 Post Installation Guide

Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 Post Installation Guide ubuntu.jpgUbuntu 10.10 codenamed Maverick Meerkat is released. As you all know Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution since it aims on usability and ease of installation. The new version of Ubuntu comes with Gnome 2.32 and Linux kernel 2.6.35. Of course all software is updated with new versions. The installation has also become very easy and fast. The user has to do only a few clicks until he boots up to his new Ubuntu desktop. Download Ubuntu 10.10 install it and let’s see a few tips and tricks!