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() { …
gnome-terminal color schemes.
2012/08/21
I was looking for a way to set the terminal colors for gnome. There is a GUI way to change the same by going to the Preferences->Colors. And then you can change the colors that you see in the color …
Different bottom panel for gnome3.
2012/08/14
If you miss the bottom panel on gnome3, the do give tint2 a try. Here is how this looks (by default). […]

procinfo and procinfo-ng : Get system information from /proc.
2012/08/10
Install procinfo or procinfo-ng. The procinfo contains three programs : /usr/bin/lsdev /usr/bin/procinfo /usr/bin/socklist and procinfo-ng contains :: /usr/bin/procinfo-ng The description for both of …
vim mappings for multiple files.
2012/08/06
If you open multiple files in vim with command line option. Then the only way to move between the files is “:n” and “:N”. There is a easier way to do this. Just add mappings for this in vimrc. Here is …
gqlplus – sqlplus with readline (tab completion)
2012/08/03
Tab completion is something which is missing in the sqlplus and if you have lot of tables with long names or lot of columns then it is sufficiently difficult to type them 🙂 Here is a solution for this …

C program to get the ascii string from a string
2012/07/25
Lot of times, you would like to get the complete string in hex or ascii format and if you are one of them then this is something that will be helpful for you 🙂 Example output: […] …
Music players on Linux – the poor mans random song player.
2012/07/20
If you have more applications running on your system then your system can handle them then you know what I mean when I say that the Music Players take a lot of CPU. Otherwise harmless, but when you …
colorgcc – Color your compiler output on Fedora
2012/07/11
Lets start with installing colorgcc : sudo yum install colorgcc Now once that is done, you will need to ensure that the call to g++, gcc and others that you want to use, you will need to create a link …
Ignore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.
2012/07/07
CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂
Ubuntu setup – post installation script
2012/07/03
If you have done a new installation of Ubuntu or Fedora, then yuou know you have to search all kind of blogs to find out what all to install. So, here is a easier way to do that. Just run this script, …