importing outlook pst files in evolution in Fedora 13 ( Goddard)

If you were using outlook and moved to some other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client" title="Email client" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client">mail client then you know the pain of moving the mails from outlook mail from outlook to any other client.

If you are using evolution on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora, then you are in luck. Just install the plug-in and select the file to import as simple as that.

sudo yum install evolution-pst

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List of commands you use most often

$ history | <a class="zem_slink" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head > /tmp/cmds | <a class="zem_slink" title="Gnuplot" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">gnuplot -persist <(echo 'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes') Plot your most used commands with gnuplot.

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Bash Examples – Mistakes to Avoid

A bash script is a text file containing a list of commands to be executed by the bash shell. A long time back, I had written a guide on Bash scripting which teaches you the basic syntax of bash scripts in a mere 10 seconds.

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Make better use of the scripting feature in the vim editor

There is a nice tutorial on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw82&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=grlnxw82">Scripting the vim editor

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Get the information on all the rpms installed on the system

Here&#8217;s a one-liner to get the info on all the packages installed on your system.

rpm -qa –info |tee All_rpms_Info

This is what it does, when you query the rpm database with the –info parameter, then the output looks something like the below, which is quite helpful.

Name        : rpm                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.6.0                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 0.rc3.1.fc10                  Build Date: Sat 13 Dec 2008 12:38:24 AM IST
Install Date: Tue 13 Jan 2009 09:22:50 PM IST      Build Host: x86-5.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: rpm-4.6.0-0.rc3.1.fc10.src.rpm
Size        : 3662666                          License: GPLv2+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 06 Jan 2009 08:20:24 PM IST, Key ID bf226fcc4ebfc273
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.rpm.org/
Summary     : The RPM package management system
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.

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How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

• display Linux skills
• install popular software
• change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings
• display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information
• enable some third party repositories#
• clean apt/yum cache#
• backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with &#8221;#&#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only

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