root-tail on KDE desktop

 Posted on November 12, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  137 words  |  

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. [Read More]

Python gzip/gunzip utility

 Posted on October 18, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  360 words  |  

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. [Read More]

Happy Birthday KDE

 Posted on October 17, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  3 words  |  

Happy Birthday KDE

ctime, atime and mtime

 Posted on October 12, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  179 words  |  

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. [Read More]

World Class Company, Third Class Ethics

 Posted on August 30, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  6 minutes  |  1272 words  |  

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. [Read More]
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SSH Password-less login

 Posted on August 12, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  273 words  |  

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. [Read More]

Bye Bye Bootsplash

 Posted on July 13, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  64 words  |  

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.

pypt-offline 0.6.Beta Released

 Posted on July 9, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  6 minutes  |  1110 words  |  

I’m happy that a new release has been possible. This new release is almost a complete re-write and has many fixes and features. For details, visit: http://pypt-offline.sf.net There’s also a small HOWTO about pypt-offline Cheers! Ritesh pypt-offline – An Offline Package Manager (C) 2005, 2006 Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs@researchut.com INTRODUCTION So you’ve decided to give this small piece of work a try. Good ! Let’s get it done faster. pypt-offline is an offline package management tool written in the Python Programming Language. [Read More]

Software Suspend 2 with root/swap on LVM

 Posted on July 7, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  3 minutes  |  635 words  |  

Disclaimer: YMMV I had always had failures with Software Suspend 2 (swsusp2) on my laptop because of which I had a perception that it really wasn’t ready for use for beta users also. But recently after reading the comments of many users on LWN I felt how wrong I actuall was. Anyways, setting up swsusp2 with root/swap on LVM is a little tricky. From my past experience I’ve felt that to be the major reason for me to not able to use this excellent feature. [Read More]