Sometimes I would find the need to archive just .files and .directories (e.g. .mozilla, .gnome). Unfortunately I would always manually do it. Quick tip: # ls -A | egrep '^\.' | tar -cvf filename.tar -T - (Thanks to LQ)

I am trying out a new theme for this blog. I made it more black-and-white. Also I think it is more consistent with my other more technical pages. I will be revamping the style-sheets and layout on those as well. In case anyone is wondering, I wrote it from scratch so it may still look a little odd in some browsers. I’d appreciate anyone using less popular browsers to let me know if it looks odd, especially Opera and Webkit/Safari users.

Just for fun … inspired by the Fedora bloggers. # history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head On my Fedora 8 box: 481 ls 297 cd 54 vim 24 rm 17 du 12 sudo 12 mv 9 who 9 screen 9 find On my CentOS 5.1 box: 344 ls 234 cd 54 sudo 29 vim 23 rpm 22 ./annoying_app_i_cant_get_to_work_on_centos5 18 ./configure 16 pwd 15 wget 15 scp On my web server:

I will be on vacation in India for the remainder of the year and some days into the coming year. I will be unable to answer any emails or provide any help or support for information available on my website. I apologize in advance if I owe you an email or did not respond to you. Please feel free to leave me a message on my contact form, I promise I will respond to it when I return next year.

Do you fear the “Werewolf” ***** ? The Fedora project just released Fedora 8 with a great deal of enthusiasm. Fedora had been slipping behind in the past few releases and there have always been quality issues, but the team hopes this release will put them back on track. The highlights from the Release Summary: Graphics/Multimedia PulseAudio - A revamped sound system addressing many of the limitations and problems with older Linux sound systems.