Citibank Doesn\’t Want Your Business, Linux Users

This is an article from the Citibank customers in US.

The Consumerist: ”Citibank won’t let customers using Linux computers log in to their online accounts. Adam argues that in 2009 this doesn’t make sense, especially when no other major corporate website blocks him like this.”

URL: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW">http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW

But in India too we don&#8217;t have much too different environment. Though I do not have any issues with the Citibank site, but I have HDFC Insurance. I always pay the premium online. This time the payment failed couple of times and the amount was deducted from my account. When checked with the Customer Service Desk, the confirmed that the payment option does not work on Firefox with Linux. For this time I have made the payment using Cash, but why should there be OS discrimination.

Using autologin for ftp sessions.

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

cups web interface.

Today I found an interesting piece of information. I was trying to debug a problem with the cups service and found that cups offers a web administration.brbrThe server is running at port 631. So point your browser to browser with <a href="http://localhost:631">link and happy digging.

Vi/VIM and Unix/Linux cheatsheets.

I found quite a lot of good information today morning.

Some really good info on vi/vim. I liked the this one:&#8221;Also, you don&#8217;t have to use the / command as a separator. Anything typed after s will become the separator&#8221;

<a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/06/206213&from=rss" target="_blank">http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/06/206213&from=rss

Some of the best collection of vi/vim tips: (though a lot of them do not have explanations)

<a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips" target="_blank">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips

Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets and Tutorials for Linux / UNIX Commands

Adding dates to your photos.

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ($#ARGV < 0 )
{
print &#8221;$#ARGV \n&#8221;;
print &#8221;Usage $ARGV[0] filename/dir\n&#8221;;
exit -1;
}

@files = `find &#8221;$ARGV[0]&#8221; -iname &#8221;*jpg&#8221; -print`;

if ($#ARGV > 3 ) { $cmd = 1;}
$count = 1;
foreach $file (@files) {
chomp ($file);

root shell auditing and syslog entry for all commands of shell

A lot of times there is a need to log all the messages and the output of the shell to the file or syslog. Sometimes I need that for some user too. script command can be used to do this but then sometimes you cannot tell the user the session is logged or you can ask the user to run this command and it should be automatically done. And sometimes there is a need put the output in the syslog so that the root user has more control and also mail for syslog is sufficient to be analyzed rather than looking for other files. Finally I found this :

Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)

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<font SIZE="6"><a HREF="http://www.debianhelp.org/node/15823">Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)

This tutorial shows how you can <a HREF="http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-boot.kernel.org-bko">boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. BKO allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora. BKO provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy.