Linux and Photography Blog

glances – Get a glimpse of the whole system

Amit Agarwal — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:42:41 +0000

You would have used top at some point of time. Did you not wish that instead of just the processes it list all the vital statistics of the system as a whole. How good it would be to see the Memory, Net, Processes and Disk usage on the same screen. Well then you should take ...Read the Rest

xmlwf – Is your xml document well formed?

Amit Agarwal — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:36:34 +0000

There is a small nifty utility called xmlwf that can check your xml documents to see if they are well formed. sudo yum install expat Once installed, simply use : xmlwf Need more details, just check the man page Related articles Assigning ID to Objects transmitted in XML document (stackoverflow.com) removing characters from php output ...Read the Rest

Get yourself som new themes for vim

Amit Agarwal — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:18:53 +0000

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 you might not still like and want to make some changes. Here’s, a new way to do it. ...Read the Rest

Using file partially for filenames

Amit Agarwal — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:02:19 +0000

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 do you do in these case’s? I had a file containing huge amount of data and ...Read the Rest

Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm

Amit Agarwal — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:47:04 +0000

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" But if you like the hard way out, then you can always try this. Related articles Unrar in Fedora… (gryphon143.wordpress.com) Fedora Utils just got easier (funsurf.wordpress.com) rpmorphan ...Read the Rest

tora on Fedora 16 for mysql and Oracle.

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:30:45 +0000

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 and here are the steps to do so: First get the Tora sources from sourceforge.net . ...Read the Rest

When To Sell A Mutual Fund?

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:25:00 +0000

When To Sell A Mutual Fund? Start making the decision: It is vital for an investor, to have long-term investment plans. But he needs to constantly verify if these funds are helping him to achieve his financial objectives. You, as an investor need to keep track of how your investments in mutual funds are growing. ...Read the Rest

Financial Resolutions to keep in 2012

Amit Agarwal — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:43:41 +0000

Financial Resolutions to keep in 2012 As we are coming to an end of 2011, this is the time to reflect on the year gone by and the time to look forward for the New Year. You may use this chance to review your financial scorecard for the last year and need to make necessary ...Read the Rest

Set gnome-shell to start in fallback mode without GUI.

Amit Agarwal — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:05:25 +0000

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 the shell does not come up. What to do in that case. You can set the shell to start in fallback mode, ...Read the Rest

Color disk usage on Fedora

Amit Agarwal — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:43:40 +0000

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 install cdu And then you can use “cdu” to view the disk usage in all beautiful colors with the command: ...Read the Rest