Blog once and educate 40,000 underprivileged children of India

2010/01/18

Here&#8217;s one of the mail that I received from the IndiBlogger team. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Dear <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" …

Useful link for grep

2010/01/16

<a href="http://lifehacker.com/398441/get-to-know-grep">http://lifehacker.com/398441/get-to-know-grep

whohas

2010/01/16

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Viewing log files without using vi or any other text editor

2010/01/16

This is quite useful for viewing files without opening them.. Saves quite a lot of time in viewing the logs 🙂 Want to see the first 5 lines of the /etc/passwd file? Pretty easy, just use the …

View information on all the rpms installed.

2010/01/16

This post if applicable to all the distro&#8217;s which are based on rpm. If you look at the number of rpms installed on your system, you will see it somewhere around 500-2000. Noe thats a pretty …

using mypaint of linux continued.

2010/01/16

Some more screenshots here: <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Screenshot-3.resized.jpg"><img …

Browser and OS stats on my blog

2010/01/16

I have been thinking of posting this for some time, but here are some stats from my <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" …

Speed up gnome and change widow manager for gnome.

2010/01/13

I have been planning to do this for quite some time now. So finally I did this today. Actually I wanted to use some features of gnome like tracker and gnome-settings and quite a few other things along …

GoOo released new version of Open Office.

2010/01/11

GoOo repository for Fedora at http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/ has released the new version of GoOo packages.

Send mail to yourself and read in your favourite client and configure the rules to move to directory.

2010/01/10

By default when you send a mail using sendmail, the mail goes to the default directory. What I wanted to do was, use rss2email, to send the mails and then sort them in different folders depending on …

Remove Invalid characters in Filename.

2010/01/10

Sometimes I end up having some invalid characters in filename like ? & and so on. So simple bash script to get rid of them: for i in `find . -type f` do echo $i mv $i `echo $i |tr ? _|tr = _ |tr …

change the terminal title dynamically in X11

2010/01/09

I was actually looking for this for quite sometime. Some years back in my bashrc was the proper setting for setting the terminal title when I did a cd, and I had completely forgotten how to do it. So …


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