Free Solaris Ebook

2010-07-15 1 min read Solaris

Please consider donating to the authour of the book if you can afford to. The book is really good.

<a href="http://teachmesun.com" target="_blank">http://teachmesun.com

Bashstyle rpm for Fedora 11 – Style up your bash prompt.

2010-07-15 1 min read Fedora

For those of you who like to show off your desktop or want your bash prompt to be colorful and useful at the same time.

Lets start the day with a cartoon.

[[danscartoon]]

There is a nifty application called bashstyle at the sourceforge. The application helps you create a new bash prompt or select from the existing ones like the below ones:

Hotmail login from Linux machine using Firefox.

2010-07-15 1 min read Fedora Linux

Today I learnt two things. One is that Hotmail has changed the look of the email on the web. Quite good change. Looks good.

Second is that when loggin in to the hotmail using my Fedora box with Firefox, I was always getting the annoying, you are not on supported browser and saw the fix on <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/hotmail-problems-683894/?posted=1#post3345089" target="_blank">this link. The solution is as simple as changing the ”general.useragent.vendor” for firefox. The way to do this is :

New GNOME 2.24 is an incremental improvement

2010-07-15 1 min read GNOME Linux

<a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/149081">Link

Quite good details on the new improvements.. Currently I am installing empathy which looks quite interesting. Screenshot for empathy available <a href="http://linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Empathy-Screenshot-27288.html">here.

concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

2010-07-15 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/iwFUyltYgjM/concatenate-compressed-and-uncompressed-logs">concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001abd9" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; -or -name 'access.log' -exec cat {} ; This command allows you to stream your log files, including gziped files, into one stream which can be piped to <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000584b" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk or some other command for analysis.

Note: if your version of ’find’ supports it, use:

Gnome Icons, themes and window decorator.

2010-07-14 1 min read Fedora Linux

Yesterday, I had tried fusion theme, but that did not work our that good for me. Reasons multifold:

I like the features of GNome
I am used to GNome
Other window managers did not look that lucarative to me.
Compiz was chocking my CPU..
and so on..

So I went back to my GNome but wanted to change the looks so searched enough today to get the right set of Icons and themes. I think I finally got some decent ones and here are the links for the icons that I liked:
<a href="http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/10-really-cool-icon-sets-for.html" target="_blank">http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/10-really-cool-icon-sets-for.html
and this one <a href="http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/ultimate-gnome-icon-theme.html" target="_blank">here.

Configurable Linux Distro You Might Want To Try – Fedora

2010-07-14 2 min read Fedora Linux

Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora is a popular <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distribution funded by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat, the most profitable Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ae3af5" title="Company" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company">corporation active today. Fedora usually sits within the top three or four most popular distributions at <a href="http://distrowatch.com">distrowatch.com.

Much of the company and community work that goes into Fedora will find its way into <a href="http://www.redhat.com/rhel/">Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the commercial Linux version used by governments and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004e02d" title="Business" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business">businesses around the world. You might compare the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora to <a href="http://www.novell.com/linux/">Novell and <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/en/">openSUSE.

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