Linux:Please Don\’t Show the Command Line to the Uninitiated (via postie)

2010-06-24 1 min read Linux
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Not long ago I had the opportunity to show off GNU/Linux to a friend. She&#8217;s been a lifelong Windows users and is just your average, non-technical computer user. She&#8217;d heard of this thing called “Linux,” but had never seen a Linux distro in use. So, I gladly booted up my laptop and also the desktop (we were at my house, my wife and I having one of our many cookouts) and showed her Linux Mint 7 via a live CD and also Ubuntu 8. Continue reading

Google chrome on Fedora 11 Leonidas.

2010-06-24 1 min read Fedora
Earlier I had posted a article on installing <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/07/20/chrome-chromium-on-linux-repo/" target="_blank">chromium on Linux. Chromium is the open source version of the browser which is used by Google to develop its famous browser Chrome. Now chrome rpm is available from google site to install on F11. Here&#8217;s how to do it. First we will add a repo for google. As root user do the following: cat «EOF >/etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo [google] name=Google – i386 Continue reading

Script to add all the partitions to the fstab.

2010-06-24 5 min read bash Fedora
I wrote a simple script today to get all the partitions on all the disks and then create <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fstab" title="Fstab" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab">fstab entry with them. The script also gets the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/universally_unique_identifier" title="Universally Unique Identifier" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier">UUID and uses the same to make the entry 🙂 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Continue reading

Customize Your Firefox Browsing Experience On Your Favorite Websites

2010-06-23 5 min read Firefox
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category <img SRC="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot.151.jpe" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="screenshot.15"/>Did you know that you can customize the way you see a website in your browser? We’ve all heard of the <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/greasemonkey-firefox-addon/">Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox, right? If not, check out the articles <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/20-must-see-greasemonkey-addonsno-technical-knowledge-req/">that <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-cool-greasemonkey-scripts-to-rock-your-friendfeed/">have <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-turn-greasemonkey-scripts-into-firefox-extensions/">been <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-ten-flickr-greasemonkey-scripts/">written here on MakeUseOf and you’ll be sure to find out some neat stuff about it. Basically, Greasemonkey allows users to write and implement scripts that customize the way you interact with websites. Continue reading

Filename completion in Linux with mixed case and ignored case.

2010-06-23 1 min read bash Linux
This is one of my favourites, alwahs keep it handy. Linux is case sensitive by nature but you will always find filenames jumbled up in the case. So what is the solution: bind &#8221;set completion-ignore-case on&#8221; Just execute the above in your bash command and file/dir name will behave like Windows. Remember that this is per session setting and thus the names do not get changed internally, it only changes the way to access it (specifically completion only). Continue reading

Upload a video to youtube

2010-06-23 1 min read Linux
<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 1 <td> <div class="bash codecolorer"> google youtube post <span class="re5">--title</span> <span class="st0">"My Video"</span> <span class="re5">--category</span> Education ~<span class="sy0">/</span>myvideo.avi<span class="sy0"></</span>tt<span class="sy0">><</span>tt<span class="sy0">></span> </div> </td> </tr>

Fedora 11 Leonidas — Fix HDD (Hard Disk) and CD/DVD automount issues for users other than root.

2010-06-22 1 min read Fedora
I have been thinking of putting this for quite some time now. By default no user (other than root) on Fedora 11 has the permission to mount CD/DVD and or ntfs/vfat partitions. So HAL automount does not work for these. Here is something you can do to fix this: Open System-> Preferences -> Authourizations <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Authorizations.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-905" title="Screenshot-Authorizations" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Authorizations.jpg" alt="Screenshot-Authorizations" width="800" height="700" /> Now, go to org -> hal -> storage and make the changes to suit your needs. Continue reading
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