Linux
power save mode for battery in Fedora 19.
2013/08/20
I was getting really bad battery life on my Fedora 19 system, and did not find much on how to tune it. Finally I found something that just does not need much configuration but works pretty well. So, …
Fedora – Ramdisk creation
2013/05/10
In Fedora, ramdisks are not created by default as is the case with RHEL. So, if you need to get Ramdisks on Fedora, then you can do this: sudo yum install MAKEDEV This will create some default …
Manage your servers the easy way with perl script over ssh with no remote client.
2013/05/06
For a long time I have not posted any script. So, its not that I have not written anything new, but just that did not put them here in lack of time. So, here is one interesting one. The original idea …
cksum – compare for multiple files.
2013/04/30
If you have to compare cksum for couple of files, the you know how cumbersome it is. So, I wrote a simple script, wherein you can create a file called cksums in the current directory and copy paste …
configure firewall – the easy way.
2013/04/24
It is good practice to keep iptables/firewall enabled. But configuring it is difficult, do you agree. Not any more 🙂 Install firewall-config sudo yum install firewall-config This will install a GUI …
ss – anothre utility to investigate sockets.
2013/04/11
ss is : […] ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informationsthan other tools. […] This comes in …
steam on Linux – for Fedora
2013/02/22
I was trying to get steam on linux on my Fedora box. Headed over to steam website, but was astonished to find only Ubuntu client over there. A little googling presented me with the developer website …
Allow incoming/outgoing ports on iptables
2012/11/27
Last couple of years, I just used to disable iptables on my system, this time I decided not to disable it and keep it enabled. So far so good, now comes the tricky part, I have http server enabled on …
Xnest – XDMCP protocol and virtual DM
2012/10/22
XDMCP is protocol that allows remote connections and provides you with a working Display Manager like KDE, GNome, et al. Its a remote connection protocol that is mostly enabled on Solaris and disabled …
Ubuntu – Really force remove a package.
2012/09/17
I was trying to remove a package on one of the Ubuntu installations the other day and was not able to do so. I tried google and tried all the options mentioned in various forums like “-f”, purge, …
using iTerm color schmes with gnome-terminal.
2012/08/29
Found this great page and thought of sharing this: http://www.sharms.org/blog/2012/08/using-iterm-2-themes-with-gnome-terminal/ When using this, you will need to install : …
script for changing gnome-terminal color schemes.
2012/08/25
Earlier I had posted this. So, if you want to try all of these schemes, then you need not have to copy paste the schemes from the web page, you can try the below script. # function idleToes() { …