Find who is using my network – top for network utilization

Ok here is something that I have been looking for something.  Now that I have conky installed, so I can see the bandwidth usage on my desktop but was wondering for sometimes, where actually so much is being used. So did some quick search to see if I can get that info and did not have to go too far 🙂

There is s  utility called iftop in the Fedora repo and at the <a href="http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/" target="_blank">URL. Oh and how to use it, just type sudo iftop or if you have multiple network interface then you can do &#8221;iftop -f &#8221;. Thats pretty simple and cool.

importing outlook pst files in evolution in Fedora 13 ( Goddard)

If you were using outlook and moved to some other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client" title="Email client" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client">mail client then you know the pain of moving the mails from outlook mail from outlook to any other client.

If you are using evolution on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora, then you are in luck. Just install the plug-in and select the file to import as simple as that.

sudo yum install evolution-pst

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Get the information on all the rpms installed on the system

Here&#8217;s a one-liner to get the info on all the packages installed on your system.

rpm -qa –info |tee All_rpms_Info

This is what it does, when you query the rpm database with the –info parameter, then the output looks something like the below, which is quite helpful.

Name        : rpm                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.6.0                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 0.rc3.1.fc10                  Build Date: Sat 13 Dec 2008 12:38:24 AM IST
Install Date: Tue 13 Jan 2009 09:22:50 PM IST      Build Host: x86-5.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: rpm-4.6.0-0.rc3.1.fc10.src.rpm
Size        : 3662666                          License: GPLv2+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 06 Jan 2009 08:20:24 PM IST, Key ID bf226fcc4ebfc273
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.rpm.org/
Summary     : The RPM package management system
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.

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How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

• display Linux skills
• install popular software
• change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings
• display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information
• enable some third party repositories#
• clean apt/yum cache#
• backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with &#8221;#&#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only

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strings linux command

Ever wondered what's inside some of those binary files on your system (binary executables or binary data)? Several times I've gotten error messages from some command in the Solaris system, but I couldn't tell where the error was coming from because it was buried in some binary executable file.

The Solaris "strings" command lets you look at the ASCII text buried inside of executable files, and can often help you troubleshoot problems. For
instance, one time I was seeing error messages like this when a user was trying to log in:

Kernel ata exception — found workaround.

I have been getting the below errors in my system for quite sometime now, I think since F9 or before that. The offending hardware is CD drive. I looked all around the net for a solution but did not find anything. Will keep looking to solve the problem. I found various solutions being suggested like adding noirq or nobiosirq or noacpi and such. None of this helped. So for now I am happy with turning off the haldaemon as soon as the system comes up. Problem: it takes lot of time to go down 🙁

Raw file format support in Rawstudio for Linux for FujiFilm cameras.

Finally <a href="http://rawstudio.org">Rawstudio has decided to add the support for FujiFilm raw file format. The support for FujiFilm cameras was not there in the rawstudio but now the bug reported on the same is marked as fixed and in the next few release, we should see the support for the same. Good going guys.

About Rawstudio:

To get the best quality out of your digital camera, it is often
recommended that you record your pictures in RAW format. This format
is mostly specific to a camera and cannot be read by most image
editing applications.