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KDE is turning out to be a fabulous Desktop. The latest version – KDE 4.4.0 aka Caikaku is choke full of features which gives the term “Desktop usability” a new meaning all together. What makes KDE all the more appealing is the plethora of well designed applications that come bundled with it.

Then again, considering that Windows enjoys a virtual monopoly of the computer desktop market, (with Linux garnering just over 1%), it might take some time for the ordinary lay person to savour the goodies that KDE provides.

But hope is at sight. KDE 4.x which is based on Qt4 library is truly portable and works remarkably well across operating systems.

KDE 4 on Windows
“KDE for Windows” is a very active project that aims to port KDE 4 and all the applications that are built on KDE to run natively in Windows.

This article accompanied by pictures explain the steps involved in installing a native build of KDE 4 on Windows.

Why should I run KDE 4 on Windows ?
Rest here.

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Power Twitter is a addon for firefox that gives twitter a new look with a lot of features. Here is the list of features:

Power Twitter adds features to the Twitter Web interface including:

-inline YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, Google Maps, song.ly, and all sorts of playable/viewable media
-link expansion
-link translation to page titles
-search scoped to a specific user
-status history peeking on mouseover
-Facebook status updates
-custom settings
-@mentions of friends on profile pages
-photo uploading
-link shrinking
-#dailyquestion

I personally am a great fan of this addon, hope you too like it.

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I have been searching to look for how to change the default umask and dmask for the auto-mounted directories. I searched all the google and bing pages that I could, but to no avail. But I found some interesting info though.

Fedora now uses DeviceKit for managing the disks and Devicekit calls udev for actually mounting and unmounting the disks. The operation is controlled by policykit to determine who can do what?

So, with this information, I was pretty sure that I should resort to fstab to mount my disks. But remember another change Fedora made some time back. UUID are preferred way to mount the disk in the fstab. So I thought why not do it this way, so here’s what I did (might save you with some time)

lshal|grep uuid

This will give you output like the below:

udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4852_A67D’
info.udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4852_A67D’  (string)
volume.uuid = ‘4852-A67D’  (string)
volume.uuid = ”  (string)

This will give you the UUID.  and then you can map the devices with the UUID from the current mount locations.

But if you like to do things the easire way then just run the following:

blkid

The output will be similar to below:

/dev/sda5: LABEL=”" UUID=”XXXX-XXXX” TYPE=”vfat”

Now login as root and add the following to the fstab file in /etc.

If you want to do it with a bash one liner, then you can try this: (Be careful to take a  backup of fstab, as I have not tried this)

IFS=’

‘;mount_opts=”rw,uid=500″; for i in $(blkid|grep “vfat”); do  temp=$(echo $i|awk ‘{print $3}’);echo “$temp $mount_opts 0 0″; done

Please note that this will not specify the mount point and thus mount will fail, if you directly use the output in the fstab file. You can insert the mount point in the output as second field.

Also, change the mount_opts value in the above to whatever mount options you want.

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Originally posted 2009-07-05 20:03:04.

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UFRaw is quite an essential program if you are using Linux and have a camera that supports raw format.

UFRaw is a tool for opening raw format images of digital cameras.

UFRaw supports a long list of camera’s. You can see the list of supported camera’s here.

Here are few screenshot’s:

UFRaw

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Here are some of the funtions that I have in my bashrc to make my life simple. They are not written by me but mostly taken from other places, but modified by me to some extent to suit my needs. If you know the original creator of these, let me know so I can add the attribution for the same.

This one is very useful.

.. (){
local arg=${1:-1};
local dir=”"
while [ $arg -gt 0 ]; do
dir=”../$dir”
arg=$(($arg – 1));
done
cd $dir >&/dev/null
}

Another very useful function:

up ()
{
[[ $# == 1 ]] && a=$1 || ([[ $# == 0 ]] && a=1 || echo “Enter only one or zero parameter” )
echo “Moving up $a dirctories…”
for (( i=0; i<$a ; i++ ))
do
builtin cd ..
echo “Up one directory to $(pwd) .. ”

done
ls
}

If those 2 do not meet your requirement then add this too

… (){
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
return
fi
local maxlvl=16
local dir=$1
while [ $maxlvl -gt 0 ]; do
dir=”../$dir”
maxlvl=$(($maxlvl – 1));
if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
cd $dir >&/dev/null
fi
done
}

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There’s a new guy in the block and its called NimbleX. From various sources, I have found that this is quite fast. I am downloading this currently. The main advantage is that the distro is of just 200MB with most of the day to day utilities available in the distro by default.

Custom Nimble

And if you think that this is just not for you as you like some package and its missing from NimbleX, no problem. Just go here, and create your own live distro withing minutes with custom package’s that can be used as Live CD or can be installed on the HDD/USB. Now that’s generations ahead of Windows or any other OS. What do you say?

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Xoost is a community search engine. From Xoost page:

Imagine you are searching for a topic related to your favourite Music, Travel destinations, Events. With Xoost you will benefit from the exponential value of doing it much more productively together with your friends or family members. It’s all about sharing Search skills & Knowledge.

Xoost diaplays result from Google, Yahoo and Bing all in one page. If you like a page you can mark it or share it with others. So this is one good feature that is quite useful. Also there is a Search extension available for firefox for Xoost.

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Go and grab your copy of the free ebook.

Quite nice book with small little hacks but sometimes the details are too much, specially the one on the cd command. I think there was no need for 3-4 examples of the same thing, but then nice collection and nice ebook.

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I was working on a project, where I need to open file from different servers and different paths. I do it with the command:

vim ftp://username@server/path/filename

This is okay when the path is short but when the path gets longer and I have different config files to open from the same path or their associated logs, then it becomes un-necessary typing. So, I did the following:

Have a file with some aliase’s like the below and source it from the bashrc file:

conf_app1=dns #this is with path

conf_app2=host

log_app1=dns #this too is with path

log_app2=hosts

…

And then I have a bash script that will use these variables to open the file required. I use the format as

view.sh c/l app1

where c/l denotes whether I want to open the config file or the log file. Download the script here.

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Get the Nautilus Script here. So what is required is that you have the necessary permission to run mount and umount as normal user with sudo command. If you are using gksu or gnomesu then you can change this in the script that you will get. Once you have got the script then you can run the installer for the script that comes in the package.

If you are running this is Fedora then you would need to make one more change other than the ones done by the installer, which is to allow sudo from non tty devices. Since this will be running from the nautilus so the script will not have any tty device and hence you would need to comment the following in the /etc/sudoers file:

so you should change

Defaults    requiretty

to

#Defaults    requiretty

Also note that the script add group called moiso and adds the user to this group and then allows this group to run mount and umount command. If you have already allowed the username to run all commands via sudo then you can skip all the steps of the script and directly copy the script moiso and umoiso to the “~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts” directory and you are done.

If you don’t feel like doing all this work of downloading and installing then you can simply create one temp diretory in directory of choice (lets say /tmp/mount) and create a new file called “mount_iso” in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts with the content below:

sudo mount “$1″ /tmp/mount

And create umount_iso in the same directory with the below content:

sudo umount /tmp/mount

But I would strongly advise that you use the moiso available at the gnome-look link given above.

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Originally posted 2008-12-21 18:39:42.

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