Fedora
One command called ‘clear’
You must have used the command ‘clear(1)’ to clear your terminal. Well, if you haven’t, please try it out. For those who know what it is, do you know how it works ? If you do, you can stop reading. Others, continue!
Well, I wanted to find out how it works. So the first thing I [...]
End of September’s quota
I have the habit of keeping my computer on when I go out for a couple of hours. Something really, really weird happened today. A sad thing.
Back home I see that my BSNL broadband utilization stands at 3.1 GB out of 2.5 GB and its still 13th of the month. I was extremely shocked to [...]
Remote Clipboard
When I was using my GNOME desktop from inside a guest running on top of KVM, suddenly an idea struck me, about a couple of hours ago – “To allow copy and paste between the guest and the host”. It would be a very valuable feature to have, I thought.
Deciding to hack a quick solution, [...]
XEN vs KVM
I’ve been running some benchmarks on KVM and XEN of late and here are some views on it. Remember we are comparing XEN pv vs KVM. But there is nothing wrong in it, as we should choose the best of both to compare them truly.
XEN
XEN is extremely active even today even after Redhat adopting KVM, [...]
APC UPS
This post has more to it than showing off my APC UPS.
Its also a good excuse to show off my new 1 KVA APC UPS. I earlier had a Numeric 600 Plus earlier which was not very good. I wanted one with
More backup (around an hour)
Computer communication interface to get some cool information [...]
Fedora 9.. Remastered
I needed to modify a package supplied by Fedora 9 DVD and make a DVD of my own. Creating a new iso Image out of source files is called remastering.
Now let me explain how can you do it too!
Modifying the required package.
Install the Source Rpm (SRPM) of the required package using yum-install. Once you do [...]
Nice Little World Clock
I usually come across time in PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) and UTC. Its pretty irritating to convert them back and forth to IST. “Why not find a nice clock that can do this ?”, I thought. I did a yum search clock, and I saw this thing called tzclock. I decided to give it a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fedora Ambassador
This is the beginning of what would be a series of posts on Fedora.
I officially declare that I am a fan of Fedora, as I am now an official Fedora Ambassador. (Sounds cool right ) The Ambassador program is something I came across only a few days ago. Its voluntary. It [...]
