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Tips – Tricks

How To: Install Eclipse in Fedora 7

November 8, 2007

I have decided to stick with Fedora 7 due to the bad experience with Fedora 8 last night and also the difficulties in moving the servers to new os that I am running on Fedora 7. As I wanted to work with Padma in my spare time, so need a good IDE that can handle [...]

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Bug: Strange libstdc++.so.5 Problem in Fedora 7

August 22, 2007

After installing jdk-6u2 for Linux from Sun Microsystems’ site, when I ran javaws it gave strange error that libstdc++.so.5 not found and it aborted. I searched for libstdc++.so.5 and it was not there in /usr/lib/ as expected. That implied something is wrong. As I installed jdk-6u2 from rpms, it should have given dependency error for [...]

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How To: Configure Procmailrc to Reduce Spam

August 21, 2007

Last Monday in IIIT Linux Users Group (LUG) meeting, I gave a small presentation regarding how to configure .procmailrc to make very effective filters. Procmail is a mail delivery agent or mail filter which is widely used on Unix systems to process incoming mails. It is automatically invoked by the mail transport agents like Sendmail [...]

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Review: Fedora 7 – Moonshine

June 4, 2007

As expected, I upgraded to Fedora 7 – Moonshine yesterday. The coolest feature I noticed is that it automatically detected my Ralink WNC-0301 wireless lan card. Well, support for other wireless lan cards like ipw2100, ipw2200 and ipw3945 is also there which is I think the best feature. Because I see a lot of people [...]

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QuadKonsole – Programme Better

March 27, 2007

Well, the era of Quad Core computing is approaching fast. But everybody can’t just enjoy the computing powers of those high end processors due to very high cost and maintenance(power supply and heat) problems. If you are a programmer and and use linux, then you can at least have a Quad Core Konsole. I found [...]

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Hack: Mange Fluctuating Wireless

September 24, 2006

I am trying this small script with a so called gui . This helps managing my wireless in the extreme conditions. Just a shell script. Run the script as root otherwise it’ll not work. Get the script here or copy the code below. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [...]

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Hack: Mail Filter – Shell Script

March 7, 2006

This is an attempt by me to filter mails on a Linux machine. You can run this file on your home directory at mail server and it will help you to sort mails on the basis of From which user the mail has come or from which domain it came, to which user or domain [...]

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How To: Troubleshoot SCP Command

February 2, 2006

Some times we face problems in transferring the data from one machine to other machine using scp. Actually the scp command is executed successfully but the data is not transferred. As the .bashrc and not the .bash_profile file of the system to which the data is being transferred is executed. If the .bashrc of the [...]

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How To: Yahoo Messenger on Teaching Lab Machines

December 7, 2005

Though the pcs in the labs are not having any support for applications except terminal or command line, Linux version of yahoo messenger can be opened there. This is a step by step procedure. Step 1 Open two terminals and through one of them logon on to your mirage server account because that supports the [...]

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Hack: Graphical Implementation of CP Command

December 3, 2005

To use this graphical interface do as directed below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 [...]

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