Screen enable/disable logging in all windows

2010-11-19 1 min read bash Learning Linux
If you use screen command a lot then this is something that you will like 🙂 Screen enable/disable loggin in all windows 1 2 3 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> bindkey ^l at "#" log on<br /> <br /> bindkey ^o at "#" log off </div> </td> </tr> The command when added in screenrc enables logging all open windows by using the C-l (control-l key combination) and disable by C-o . Continue reading

Photo Editing with nice border and preparing for print.

2010-11-02 3 min read Fedora Photo
Working with photos in Linux is very easy with lots of viewers/editors/managers and what not. Not that there are not many options in Windows but most of them are not free. BEST case scenario is that you might get a evaluation version (i.e. if you do not use pirated/cracked version) of software‘s. Me, being completely against pirated and cracked version or evaluation version (if not, planning to buy the same) like the freedom of choice with Linux. Continue reading

http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof – very good collection of utilities for .deb based distro’s

2010-10-08 1 min read Linux Uncategorized
Head over to http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof and you will find a nice utility created by the makeuseof guys. This will allow you to select the applications that you want to install and once you have made the selection you can download the unattended installer. Well, to be frank with you I really do not see the need for this unless you don’t know how to add repositories or install simple stuff. Most of this (no, actually all of this except dropbox in my Fedora setup with the repositories that I have set). Continue reading

Speed up mkat with no md5sum for the files.

2010-09-02 1 min read Linux
mkat details: mkat is a set of <a class="zem_slink" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line tools to burn, catalog <a class="zem_slink" title="Data" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data">data CD/<a class="zem_slink" title="DVD" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD">DVD, <a class="zem_slink" title="Compact Disc" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc">audio CDs and then search the catalog <a class="zem_slink" title="Database" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database">database, e.g. check whether you have a certain file or audio CD in your collection. Tags can be used to categorize CDs, e.g. <a class="zem_slink" title="Comedy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading

when you press f9 'paste' is on , press f9 again and 'paste' is off, and so forth (works in insert-mode and command-mode)

2010-08-02 1 min read bash Linux
<a class="zem_slink" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim&#8217;s pastetoggle: when you press f9 &#8217;paste&#8217; is on , press f9 again and &#8217;paste&#8217; is off, and so forth (works in <a class="zem_slink" title="Insert key" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_key">insert-mode and command-mode) $ nmap :set paste!:set paste? Sets as paste toggle, with visual confirmation of state * View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites * View all commands by Vilemirth commandlinefu.com by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole. Continue reading

PuTTY alternatives - AlternativeTo.net

2010-07-27 1 min read Uncategorized
I like PuTTY quite a bit but do not like the fact that it does not have any tab feature. So, if I am working on multiple machines then un-necessarily I will have too many windows open cluttering my desktop. So, here is the result of my quest to find the alternative: <a href="http://alternativeto.net/desktop/putty/">http://alternativeto.net/desktop/putty/<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/06/05/putty-ssh-without-password/">PuTTY ssh without password (amit-agarwal.co.in) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www. Continue reading
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