luvcview is a camera viewer for UVC driver based webcams
I’ve packaged a .deb for it which can be fetched from:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor- pkglist?action=details;package=luvcview
knetstats for Debian Etch/Sid
Debian is a great OS Distribution. It itself is a great community. But there are times when Debian is very frustrating also. Like many of the packages go on a very slow pace.
Truly speaking, there isn’t much a person can ask the Debian community given the amount of contribution it makes.
I was looking for knetstats package but couldn’t find much help. The ITP against knetstats is more than 100 days but still not entered into Debian.
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root-tail on KDE desktop
For many who don’t know, root-tail is a small utility which can write to your Desktop’s Screen (Often called the root window). It is mainly used to display critical system messages.
I’ve been a root-tail fan for long. It like the idea of displaying syslog messages on my desktop. It almost fixes 50% of my problems.
The problem with KDE is that it drwas its own Desktop image on top of the root window because of which you can’t see the messages drawn by root-tail.
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Python gzip/gunzip utility
If you are a person like me who likes to read books in html format, you sure would have lot of soft books. These books occupy a lot of diskspace because they are small files and just text. Apache’s transparent decompression (mod_deflate) is a good solution to read these books while keeping them compressed.
Hence this small utility which’ll gunzip/gzip all your html/text files on all Python supported platforms. Hope you find it useful.
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Happy Birthday KDE
Happy Birthday KDE
ctime, atime and mtime
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.
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World Class Company, Third Class Ethics
World Class Company - Third Class Ethics
Well!! After almost around 3 months after my exit from my previous employer ( Dell R &D Center, Bangalore - India), I’ve now had some time to rant about the experiences I had.
Hereforth, unless explicitly mentioned, When Dell is quoted, I mean as **Dell R &D Center, Bangalore - India, **and not any other Dell facility because it is not fair for me to comment about the other centers since I ’ve not worked there.
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SSH Password-less login
First generate a public key
1.rrs@geeKISSexy:~$ ssh-keygen -t dsa 2.Generating public/private dsa key pair. 3.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa): 4.Created directory '/home/rrs/.ssh'. 5.Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 6.Enter same passphrase again: 7.Your identification has been saved in /home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa. 8.Your public key has been saved in /home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa.pub. Enter the command "ssh-keygen -t dsa" (line 1.). When prompted on file where key is saved just hit "Enter" (line 3.
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Wikimapia
Bye Bye Bootsplash
Wow!
This is called freedom. **Bootsplash **has been a great eye-candy application in the Linux arena but now it’s time to say goodbye.
I just tried splashy and its a charm. The great thing is that it doesn ’t need a patched kernel. So newbies or people who don’t prefer to rollout their own kernel can use splashy and have a clean boot up.