Mod your gnome desktop, change the colors the easy way.

2010-06-25 1 min read Fedora GNOME

Install the autoten application. You can find the instructions in my earlier post today <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/04/20/autoten-install-nvidia-gnome-color-chooser-and-many-others-in-one-click-on-fedora/">here.

Gnome color chooser is an application to allow you to change the color of your gnome DE in all aspects. Very easy to use GUI. Just install it and run it as gnome-color-chooser. Here’s a screenshot of the application.

The beauty of this application is that it allows to use XML files as input so there are lot of possibilities. And one of the most lucarat5ive ones is to download a pack of color schemes from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/84941-daX_UltraPack220_3v2_gnomecc.tar.bz2">here. This has 220 theme colors to select from in the form of XML files which can be used directly with Gnome Color Chooser. So enjoy.

MySQL tutorial and reference manual

2010-06-25 1 min read Database Linux

The refence for the mysql could be found at

<a class="aligncenter" title="MySQL Help" href="http://http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html" target="_blank">MySQL Help

Useless use of cat awards

2010-06-25 22 min read Linux

<a href="http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#cat">Here you will find some useless use of cat command in linux. Really interesting and quite informative.

Useless Use of Cat Award

If you’ve been reading <a href="news:comp.unix.shell">comp.unix.shell or any of the related groups <a href="news:comp.unix.questions">(comp.unix.questions inter alia) for any amount of time, this should be a familiar topic.

I made this web page on the topic primarily so I’d have a simpler URL than one of those ghastly Deja News searches to hand to people. I’ve tried to reconstruct Randal’s standard form letter from looking at his postings <a href="http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#forms">(see end) and added some comments of my own.

Getting the list of IOCTLS in the kernel.

2010-06-25 1 min read Linux

Sometime back I was helping one of my friends in looking for all the IOCTLs supported by the kernel. Well we did not find the info we were looking for and thus thought to write a perl script to get all the IOCTLS supported by the kernel. Here it is, simple script to scan through the code and give you a list:

#!/usr/bin/perl —

@files = `grep -r ” _IO” /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6.20/* |grep define ioctls_grep`;
open (DAT, ”ioctls_grep”) ||die ”could not open ioctls_grep”;
@files = DAT;
close(DAT);
my %ioctls_numbers;
print ”Grep completed..\n”;
open (DAT, ”ioctls_numbers_found”);
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Hurray crossed 1000 visits for the day..

2010-06-25 1 min read Linux

A picture is worth thousand words..

Thanks to all of you..

20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About

2010-06-25 0 min read Photo

$\"Adobe$: Image via Wikipedia

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/adobe_photoshop" title="Adobe Photoshop" rel="homepage" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/">Photoshop is a heck of an amazing <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software. You can do all kinds of things with images and go as far as your imagination can take you. Once you are <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/introductory-photoshop-skills-for-the-beginning-photographer/">past the beginner level and understand what the various options are for and how they work, then you are ready for tips like the ones that are the topic of this 2 part article.

5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it

2010-06-25 1 min read Linux

Last couple of days I was quite busy and thus could not catch up with my bloglines account. Today finally I got some time so am catching up on them and found some interesting things to share with you. Actually wanted to write them myself long time back but still thinking about it. And since someone has already done that, I will link to them. The first one for today is <a href="http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/20/5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it.html" target="_blank">5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it. This was not in the list that I was planning to write but some thing similar in line was pending after the distro comparisions I did some time back.

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