One click install for Linux systems.

There has been this concept for quite sometime that there should be one click install for the applications in Linux. This applies to the themes and widgets of wordpress too 🙂 and quite some applications are taking it seriously (like wordpress for example).

But how about the application to do one-click install, there are couple of issues with that but still there exists at least one way. A nice blog <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/49328">here.

Pipeing linux commands and their output

As a system administrator, I always worry about certain things, like who's doing what, what processes are running, what the network traffic looks like, etc.  One day I decided to create a simple alias that would combine all the commands I wanted into one big chunk of information.  Then I realized that it wouldn't all fit into one screen.
Fortunately I knew how to group all of the commands together, so the "more" command could handle them as one set of input.

Linux Installation Guide

Paradise for Linux Installation Guides on laptops is <a href="http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html" target="_blank">here. Can you imagine that this tuxmobile page hosts around 8,000 guides on Linux Installation on Laptops. I assume that this will be probably the biggest list on single page for Linux installation. The page lists various hardwares of laptop where you can install linux and how to install it.

So what are you waiting for … got a laptop, see if yours is listed here.

Some good and nice open source books worth downloading.

There is a nice article <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4491" target="_blank">here b<span class="byline">by Alastair Otter. He has given links to different Books that are worth reading.  These include:

<span class="byline">1)<a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517984/" target="_blank"> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517984/

<span class="byline">2) <a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/DigitalFoundations" target="_blank">http://en.flossmanuals.net/DigitalFoundations

<span class="byline">3) <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Animation/BSoD/Character_Animation" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Animation/BSoD/Character_Animation

<span class="byline">4) <a href="ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/debian/pool/non-free/r/rutebook/" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/debian/pool/non-free/r/rutebook/

<span class="byline">to name a few, along with others. Its worth reading the article. While you are at it don&#8217;t forget the gems known as comments.

5 Sites To Find Free Alternatives To Popular Software

And sometimes there are software you find irksome and think things could have been better. In any case, I always like to try out a few alternative software choices before I settle with any particular application mainly for two reasons: One, you would never know how good or bad the one you are using is until you try some alternatives and two: a bit of choice and competition can only be for the good of us users! Your motivation might be different: perhaps you want to find a free software that does the same task as the paid software you are using or maybe your favorite Windows application is not available on Mac or Linux.

Add current date and time in vim

Last few days I was quite busy. So this time very quick tip 🙂

Add the following to the ~/.vimrc file

imap dt :r! dateA

And now whenever you type dt in the insert mode in vi, date will be inserted.

Multiple search in vim

I was looking at a log file and needed to highlight multiple search items to make the logs more readable. I got into multiple threads suggesting various cryptic vim commands but I was in no mood to remember them. So, I finally hit <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=479" target="_blank">this.

This is a cool vim script which you can use to highlight multiple search patter. You can simply add a search term by doing