Enlightment Desktop.

Enlightenment window managet I just chanced upon today while browsing the list of packages in fedora repository and thought might as well try it for sometime. For sometime now I had shifted to LXDE in favour of its being light weight but was serving well to my purposes and was quite happy with its performance.

So i just installed Enlightenment:

sudo yum install enlightenment

and selected yes for downloading the dependencies to too.  This took me to a great new world of GUI. This is a really great Desktop manager. Seems to be quite okay in terms of using the CPU. The looks are completely configurable. Menus are configurable and if you dont like the default theme then there are lot to choose from at various location some of which I have mentioned in below.

vi reference links

<a href="http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html">http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi2.html
<a href="http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/">http://www.venukb.com/2007/01/28/vivim-graphical-cheat-sheet/
<a href="http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html">http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html
<a href="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands">http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#commands

Upload a video to youtube

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/JXJj-wy4keA/upload-a-video-to-youtube">Upload a video to youtube

$ google youtube post –title "My Video" –category Education ~/myvideo.avi <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google just released a new commend line tool offering all sorts of new services from the commend line. One of them is uploading a <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000982f58" title="YouTube" rel="homepage" href="http://www.youtube.com/">youtube video but there are plenty more google services to interact with.

<a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000054c6a" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">Download it here: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/">http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

Free Solaris Ebook

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.

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:

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/screenshot.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-821" title="bashstyle" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/screenshot.jpg" alt="bashstyle" width="412" height="40" />

Hotmail login from Linux machine using Firefox.

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 &#8221;general.useragent.vendor&#8221; for firefox. The way to do this is :

New GNOME 2.24 is an incremental improvement

<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.