First Fedora 13 Features Listed: NFSv4, DisplayPort

Fedora 12 will not see the light of day for a few more weeks still, but the first features for Fedora 13 are now known. On the Fedora Project Wiki is now the Fedora 13 feature list. Added so far to the Fedora 13 feature list are mostly the few features that didn’t make it in time for Fedora 12: NFSv4 protocol by default, support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6, and yum language package plug-in…

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

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

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cowsay.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-829" title="cowsay" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cowsay.jpg" alt="cowsay" width="209" height="300" />

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:

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/animalsay.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-830" title="animalsay" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/animalsay.jpg" alt="animalsay" width="161" height="167" />

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/animalsay-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-831" title="animalsay-1" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/animalsay-1.jpg" alt="animalsay-1" width="363" height="187" />

for loop in bash script on solaris without seq

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

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.

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 🙂