I must admit, Linux Power Management is Fuckin’ Pathetic.
On a Dell XPS M1210 Laptop with a 6 Cell battery, I get a shitty 15 mins of power backup compared to 2 hrs on Microsoft Windows XP.
And woo, On my IBM T43 running Microsoft Windows XP, I watched a full movie on battery, and it still survived.
The Linux running laptop had no sound enabled.
Yes, Yes Yes!!! As many would say
[Read More]So in the search of finding a simple solution for printing colored text in python, it took me some time to dig up. Most solutions people have done were using curses or some modules. My ultimate intention has always been to cut down on the dependency on the 3rd party modules.
I think the ANSI Color Codes would be good enough for my requirements to print colored text on an ANSI compliant terminal.
[Read More]Synchronization is one of the common problems I face with my multiple machines. This article is about how KDE help me in keeping my data synchronized across machines without any problem.
ctime, atime and mtime
It is important to distinguish between a file or directory ’s change time (ctime), access time (atime), and modify time (mtime).
ctime -- In UNIX, it is not possible to tell the actual creation time of a file. The ctime–change time–is the time when changes were made to the file or directory ’s inode (owner, permissions, etc.). It is needed by the dump command to determine if the file needs to be backed up. You can view the ctime with the ls -lc command.
[Read More]First,
DISCLAIMER: I ’m not a guru, I’m just a learner. So there might be a chance that the whole article might be fundamentally wrong.
I thought of this because I use P2P network a lot.
On my laptop, which is the repository of everything I have, it is necessary for me to make sure that it is secure enough.
To firewall it I use the single rule from iptables:
[Read More]Just how would it look if Mac were to come with Dell laptops.
The screenshot might give some picture.
Some quick steps to create an Option for “New SSH Session” under Konsole which includes keychain and ssh-agent for password-less ssh logins.
I’m using a Debian system but majority of the steps should be common across all distributions.
Install keychain and openssl-client programs (ssh-agent is part of openssl-
client package under Debian)
rrs@laptop:~ $ apt-get install keychain openssl-client
Add the following lines to your .bashrc file
if [ $TERM == linux ]; then
[Read More]Small HOWTO on configuring POP3 SSL with Fetchmail.
Here I assume that the server’s SSL certificate is a Self Signed Certificate
Certificate chain 0 s:/C=US/ST=CA/L=San Jose/O=Some Internet Hosting Services/OU=Automatically-generated POP3 SSL key/CN=mail.somehost.com/emailAddress=postmaster@researchut.com i:/C=US/ST=CA/L=San Jose/O=Some Internet Hosting Services/OU=Automatically- generated POP3 SSL key/CN=mail.somehost.com/emailAddress=postmaster@researchut.com
[Read More]Yes, that’s rightly mentioned in the title. I’m not a fucking good speaker but this link might be good enough for explanations on why ESR and his open source fundas are shit.
Follow the facts, not the hype.
Free Software has always been about user rights and RMS has done great job.
For me personally, it’s been FSF because of which today what I am. Being a
dumb chap from a rural town in a rural state of India and born in a complete
business family, I had never dreamt of becoming a computer professional
anyway. It was FSF and RMS’ idealisms that brought me today to where I am.