Let the cow speak what you want it to – ascii art with cowsay

2010-06-11 1 min read Fedora

A picture is worth a thousand words. So here’s the thousand word posting.

To install it, just execute:

sudo yum install cowsay

It does install a couple of other timepass things like cowthink and animalsay. So, here are some more screenshots:

for loop in bash script on solaris without seq

2010-06-11 1 min read Solaris

Today I was working on a solaris box and wanted to do a watch. watch command is not available on Solaris 8 by default and I did not want to install it just for this small one time job. So I wrote this:

for (( i=0; i<=100; i++ )); do ls -lrt /tmp/amit*; sleep 2; done

You can replace the command in bold with whatever command you want to watch.

Configuration of my home desktop - updated

2010-06-11 1 min read Uncategorized

Here is the list of components of my Desktop :

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/nvidia" title="Nvidia" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3707277778,-121.963738889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.3707277778,-121.963738889%20%28Nvidia%29&t=h">nVidia Corporation G96 [<a class="zem_slink" title="GeForce" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_family.html">GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) with 1GB

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/intel_corporation" title="Intel Corporation" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.3879277778,-121.963538889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.3879277778,-121.963538889%20%28Intel%20Corporation%29&t=h">Intel(R) <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/intel_core_microarchitecture" title="Intel Core (microarchitecture)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_%28microarchitecture%29">Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz with 6 core

Transcend JM1333KLU-2G @ 1333MHz – totalling 4 GB of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ddr3_sdram" title="DDR3 SDRAM" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM">DDR3 RAM

22 inch BENQ <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/liquid_crystal_display" title="LCD" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/LCD">LCD monitor

email with templates (with variables) from the command line with sendmail or any other MTA.

2010-06-09 2 min read Bash Fedora Linux

I was trying to get templates to work on evolution and found that although templates are there in evolution mail client, its not that efficient to use. What I thus wanted was to have something that could allow me to send mails to (and cc and bcc) to specified people with predefined template, only some values changed, like changelog and so on. So I wrote a set of files and below files to achieve the same. Hope it helps you too 🙂

Default files and settings for new users on most Linux distribution – Linux Ubuntu

2010-06-09 1 min read Linux

For most common distributions of Linux the default settings for the newly created user with GUI or useradd command is taken from the directory /etc/skel

All the files (including the hidden files) are copied to the newly created users home directory. This can be used to modify the defaul .bashrc .vimrc and other such files in the users home directory. You can copy the files in ”/etc/skel” the files that you want to keep in the users home directory. This can contain soft links or hard links also (Be careful to link to the full path in this directory).

http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows

2010-06-09 9 min read Linux

<a href="http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows" target="_blank">Here’s a nice article on Windows vs Linux. I have been reading on these for quite some time now, but this one really sums it up all very well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Since I often hear from friends and people on the Internet about things they can’t do in Linux that they could on Windows, I thought I’d write up a list of things I can do in Linux that I can’t do in Windows.

Biggest free shell account list

2010-06-09 1 min read Bash

Biggest shell account list is <a href="http://www.red-pill.eu/freeunix.shtml" target="_blank">here.

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