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10 must-dos of retirement planning

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:04:51 +0000

The 10 Financial Doctrines ofWise Retirement Planning Let’s begin on planning finance for retirement: It is usual for many of us to aspire for a financially secure and happy retired life. However being financially prepared to meet the demands of retired life by saving and investing requires considering and following the 10 doctrines of wise [...]

Upgrade to Fedora 17 from 16.

Amit Agarwal — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:50 +0000

As usual time in couple of days to upgrade to Fedora 17. Release schedule is for 05/22 and so its just around the corner. So, if you are looking at upgrading using yum, then make sure that you visit this page. There are some changes in latest version that will not allow you to upgrade [...]

Array of all possible colors in bash script

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:17:18 +0000

Sometime back, we had looked at using colors in bash script and here is a way to create a array of all the colors. #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: colorarray.sh # # USAGE: ./colorarray.sh # # DESCRIPTION: # # OPTIONS: --- # REQUIREMENTS: --- # BUGS: --- # NOTES: --- # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal [...]

Display X applications from virtual terminals

Amit Agarwal — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:05:37 +0000

Here is a script that can help you set the proper envirionment to start a gnome-shell from one of the terminals. #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: xenv.sh # # USAGE: ./xenv.sh # # DESCRIPTION: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging # # # OPTIONS: --- # REQUIREMENTS: --- # BUGS: --- # NOTES: --- # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), [...]

colors in bash scripts

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:52:29 +0000

I have been trying to understand the color codes for bash for a pretty long time, but somehow never got time to understand this clearly. So this time around when I was writing a script to analyze some logs. I thought I will give it a go and finally understood some part of this. So, [...]

10 commandments of personal finance

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:58:32 +0000

10 commandments of personal finance We all work and earn money. Do we manage our hard earned money effectively and efficiently? New Year is the time to take resolutions. Why don’t you take a resolution to prioritize and organize your personal finance? Here are the 10 commandments of personal finance that can help you in [...]

Know All About Form 16

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:21:47 +0000

Know All About Form 16 – Be An Informed TaxPayer. Most of us are aware of Form 16 given by our employers before April 30th each year that give details of the income earned, and tax deducted at source and paid to the government. This certificate proves useful in filing income tax returns. In addition [...]

systemadm – simpler way to manage the service files for systemd

Amit Agarwal — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:43:09 +0000

Once the systemd unit and service files have come into being, understanding of the system services have changed a little bit and it might require some time to understand the cli tools for managing these services and units. That being the case, systemadm comes to rescue. This is a simple tool which : Graphical front-end [...]

Convert string to hex.

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:39:54 +0000

If you want to use snoop or tcpdump with advanced search in the packet, then you would need to convert the string to hex string. For this, either you can use a web search and find some web application to do that or you can use a simple C program like this /* * ===================================================================================== [...]

Your own local search engine.

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:31:17 +0000

There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution. You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions. download omega from http:// xapian.org/download yum install xapian libuuid-devel And then make and install omega and for this you can [...]