IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only

2010-06-15 2 min read Linux

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).

Google Profiles Turn Into OpenIDs

2010-06-14 0 min read Linux

$\"Image$: Image via CrunchBase

As part of its push to go more social, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it’s more useful. Google’s <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/brad-fitzpatrick">Brad Fitzpatrick has just <a href="http://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/6059279144">tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs.

FastestfoxLite - Disable prefetching and make firefox really fast.

2010-06-14 1 min read Firefox

If you are stuck with firefox performance, then you should try this addon:

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First Fedora 13 Features Listed: NFSv4, DisplayPort

2010-06-11 1 min read Fedora

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

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