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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

Interesting repository for Fedora.

Amit Agarwal — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:11:19 +0000

Here is one repository that you can add to your Fedora to give it a few more hundred packages: cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rpm-sphere.repo <<EOF [rpm-sphere] name=RPM Sphere baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/ gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/repodata/repomd.xml.key enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 EOF Technorati Tags: Fedora, Linux, Linux distribution, Operating system, repository, rpm, RPM Package Manager, Uniform Resource Locator

Benchmarking the system/CPU performance

Amit Agarwal — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:56:44 +0000

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 CPU speed. #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: benchmark.sh # # USAGE: ./benchmark.sh ...Read the Rest

conky script used to monitor server status remotely.

Amit Agarwal — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:48:00 +0000

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 petty and the scripts and applications were quite heavy. So, I thought why not conky . So, with some quick ...Read the Rest

How & Why Should you invest in Stock Markets Even After Your Retirement?

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:44:18 +0000

How & Why Should you invest in Stock Markets Even After Your Retirement? Inflation and Retirement Most Retirees feel great getting a bulk sum as provident fund and gratuity, and wish they knew a magician, who could spin their money 2 to 3 times in just 5 years, in addition to ensuring a regular return ...Read the Rest

BASH Script Performace

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:38:04 +0000

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 the process’s. This was required to be done on per minute basis and the output was required in comma ...Read the Rest

All you wanted to know about Mediclaim Policy

Amit Agarwal — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:18:45 +0000

All you wanted to know about Mediclaim Policy Health care costs are sky rocketing day by day. Therefore the need for having a mediclaim policy for you and your dependents has grown. Suppose you have to undergo some medical treatment or need to be hospitalized for certain reason, then a mediclaim policy will be of ...Read the Rest