Get yourself som new themes for vim
2012/02/15
Well, you would already have some themes for your vim, by default. And if you did not like them then you would have added some of your own too (downloaded from vim.org). But, those are something, that …
Using file partially for filenames
2012/02/12
There are some commands that take file name and there are some case where you need to give file name. But there are some cases where you want to modify the file before passing it to the command. What …
Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm
2012/02/09
Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner: rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm" …
tora on Fedora 16 for mysql and Oracle.
2012/02/06
Sometime back I had posted a article on Tora on Fedora. But that was a while back and things have progressed and we already have Fedora 16 (aka Verne). So, awhile back I installed Tora on my Fedora 16 …
Set gnome-shell to start in fallback mode without GUI.
2012/01/26
If you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where …
Color disk usage on Fedora
2012/01/21
For this tip, you would need to setup the rpm-shere repository. You can get the information here. Once you have done that you need to install the cdu package with the following command: sudo yum …
Interesting repository for Fedora.
2012/01/18
Here is one repository that you can add to your Fedora to give it a few more hundred packages:
Benchmarking the system/CPU performance
2012/01/15
Have you ever wanted to have a quick check on your CPU performance. I know that lot of people will say that this is not the right way to do this, but here is something that you can use to check the …
conky script used to monitor server status remotely.
2012/01/12
I was looking for something to monitor few details on the server. I thought about quite a lot of applications, some open source and some scripts developed in house. But my requirements were quite …
BASH Script Performace
2012/01/06
Today we will look at some bash code snippests and the performance issues. Lets first look at the problem and the implemented solution: Problem: We needed to log the output of the ps command for all …
Happy New Year 2012
2011/12/31
Happy new year to all.
30 Best Windows Mobile Applications
2011/12/28
33 Comments » Share inShare The main reason why people still love window mobile is because of its freeware applications and excellent add-ons. Windows Mobile users carry great access to third party …