Ok this I was planning for quite sometime.. but found this <a href="http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/tip-using-find-command-in-linux" target="_blank">here. Worth reading for …

There has been this concept for quite sometime that there should be one click install for the applications in Linux. This applies to the themes and widgets of wordpress too 🙂 and quite some …

As a system administrator, I always worry about certain things, like who's doing what, what processes are running, what the network traffic looks like, etc. One day I decided to create a simple alias …

Paradise for Linux Installation Guides on laptops is <a href="http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html" target="_blank">here. Can you imagine that this tuxmobile page hosts around …

There is a nice article <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4491" target="_blank">here b<span class="byline">by Alastair Otter. He has given links to …

And sometimes there are software you find irksome and think things could have been better. In any case, I always like to try out a few alternative software choices before I settle with any particular …

Last few days I was quite busy. So this time very quick tip 🙂 Add the following to the ~/.vimrc file imap dt :r! dateA And now whenever you type dt in the insert mode in vi, date will be inserted.

I was looking at a log file and needed to highlight multiple search items to make the logs more readable. I got into multiple threads suggesting various cryptic vim commands but I was in no mood to …

if you want to open any document with the default document handler from the bash prompt or command prompt in linux then the simplest way to do that is use &#8221;xdg-open&#8221;. This can also …

for i in * do mogrify $i -resize 640×480 i done

This is an article from the Citibank customers in US. The Consumerist: &#8221;Citibank won&#8217;t let customers using Linux computers log in to their online accounts. Adam argues that in 2009 …

A simple example of the .netrc file. Keep this file in your homedir and then chmod to 600. […] machine skyware login raj password ******** macdef init ls -lRt […] macdef hello bye