Periodically download and use as wallpaper from Flickr in Fedora using Webilder.

Ever wanted to have wallpaper downloaded from Flickr directly using the tags and then apply them as wallpaper, then the way to go is download Webilder <a href="http://www.webilder.org/static/downloads/Webilder-0.6.3.tar.gz">here. Just do the regular stuff to install the same.

tar xvfz

cd

./configure

make

sudo make install

And then right click on the gnome panel and add the widget. Configure the tags to download and the duration to change the wallpaper and enjoy.

17 Cool firefox tweaks.

A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro&#8217;s.

<a href="http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/07/17-cool-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks.html">http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/07/17-cool-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks.html

Most of it was done in my machine even before I read the article but good to see all of them together 🙂

List of commands you use most often

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/6MxHiSiINdo/list-of-commands-you-use-most-often">List of commands you use most often

$ history | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" 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 | gnuplot -persist <(echo 'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes') Plot your most used commands with gnuplot.

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How To Add A Cool Tattoo To Your Photo in Photoshop

Ever thought about having a cool tattoo but not sure what it will look like?

We’re lucky to be Photoshop friendly, unlike <a class="zem_slink" title="Lil Wayne" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1211443/">Lil Wayne (I’d put him in Top Ten Ugliest Tats Ever list).  And history has lots of examples of “unfortunate” tattoos. Like Johnny Depp’s “Winona Forever” tattoo. He had to change it to “Wino Forever” after their break-up. Or like the Game’s famous “star” tat on his face – he had a teardrop before, then changed to a star and now he has an “LA” I guess. Looks so weird.

using kill to see if a process is alive

I am making some changes to the moreutils sponge command. Sponge provides a method of prepending which is less specialized than my prepend util. However, it has trouble with large amounts of input.

Regardless, while testing my changes, I want to watch it operate. Normally, you would just do so <a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/using-kill-to-see-if-a-process-is-alive.html">…

GCompris — Kids games and learning activities and hacks.

I found a nice game and learning software for Kids yesterday. It is called <a href="http://gcompris.net/" target="_blank">GCompris. Details of the software as in their website is<div class="contenu">

GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category.

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IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only

The other day, I was trying to fix something in my firefox and found that the way to go was to login to IRC and go to the mozilla <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" title="Server (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29">server and join #firefox.

Though IRC is quite native to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux, I did not know where to start. So, I noted down the list of steps that need to be done to get you started. (Note this may not be new to most of you).