Bug Me Not

This is an amazing site that I came across. If you are one of those people who simply hate resgistering at a site just to use its features of find the process of registration too cumbersome, this is the site for you. It contains usernames and passwords to almost all popular sites that require registration. Trust me, it's a real life saver when you don't have the time or the inclination to register at a site.

 
http://www.bugmenot.com/

Google releases Picasa for Linux

Google has finally released Picasa - their flagship photo management software, for Linux. The official link is -

http://picasa.google.com/linux/ 

However for some reason Google has released it for US citizens only. So if you aren't a US citizen you will likely get a page not found error. Fret not, where there's a will there's a way. Non-US residents can click the following modded link (read proxy) -

http://67.18.35.242/-picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-rpm.html 

Direct download links for Non-US citizens are -

RPM (Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva x86): http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm
DEB (Debian/Ubuntu x86): http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/non-free/p/picasa/picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb
BIN (Any x86 Linux distribution): http://dl.google.com/linux/standalone/picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin

Hack a Nokia 6600 using Bluetooth and Fedora Core 3!!!

I came across this article while doing some random surfing. Seems pretty cool although I yet have to try the hack myself. Nonetheless I was too tempted to post it.

Written by A. Varin Khera

Click here to read the article

Bash shorcuts

Taken from http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/08/bash-shell-shortcuts.html

 ____________CTRL Key Bound_____________
Ctrl + a - Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl + b - Move back a char
Ctrl + c - Terminate the command
Ctrl + d - Delete from under the cursor
Ctrl + e - Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl + f - Move forward a char
Ctrl + k - Delete to EOL
Ctrl + l - Clear the screen
Ctrl + r - Search the history backwards
Ctrl + R - Search the history backwards with multi occurrence
Ctrl + u - Delete backward from cursor
Ctrl + xx - Move between EOL and current cursor position
Ctrl + x @ - Show possible hostname completions
Ctrl + z - Suspend/ Stop the command
____________ALT Key Bound___________
Alt + < - Move to the first line in the history
Alt + > - Move to the last line in the history
Alt + ? - Show current completion list
Alt + * - Insert all possible completions
Alt + / - Attempt to complete filename
Alt + . - Yank last argument to previous command
Alt + b - Move backward
Alt + c - Capitalize the word
Alt + d - Delete word
Alt + f - Move forward
Alt + l - Make word lowercase
Alt + n - Search the history forwards non-incremental
Alt + p - Search the history backwards non-incremental
Alt + r - Recall command
Alt + t - Move words around
Alt + u - Make word uppercase
Alt + back-space - Delete backward from cursor

—————-More Special Keybindings——————-

Here "2T" means Press TAB twice

$ 2T - All available commands(common)
$ (string)2T - All available commands starting with (string)
$ /2T - Entire directory structure including Hidden one
$ 2T - Only Sub Dirs inside including Hidden one
$ *2T - Only Sub Dirs inside without Hidden one
$ ~2T - All Present Users on system from "/etc/passwd"
$ $2T - All Sys variables
$ @2T - Entries from "/etc/hosts"
$ =2T - Output like ls or dir

The Linux boot process

I came across this great post on how a Linux box boots up. Click the link to read the story

Click me to read the post

(Taken from http://itreviews.blogspot.com/) 

Using pushd and popd in Linux

Most people don't use the pushd and popd commands. But these commands can be really useful if you work a lot at the command line. There are many times when you wish to go into a directory that is deeply nested, only to realise that you have to get back to the directory that you were previously working in.

This is where the pushd and the popd commands come in handy. You can push the current directory onto a stack using the pushd command. Then you can switch to any directory you wish. If you wish to get back to the directory that you had earlier pushed onto the stack all you have to do is use the popd command.

Save all those settings in Thunderbird

How many times have you used Mozilla Thunderbird and saved tons of those important emails, only to find out that some part of your system crashed and you've lost all those emails? Well, here's a simple solution - Backup your Thunderbird email and other config. files in the following way -

1.) The files are stored in the .thunderbird directory which resides in your home directory.

2.) Im assuming the home directory is /home/admin. Please replace it with your own in the following commands -

     [admin@spooky ~]$ tar cvfz mythund_bkp.tar.gz /home/admin/.thunderbird/

3.) The above command will create an archive named mythund_bkp.tar.gz  You can use this archive to restore all your files in case of any problems using the following command and your emails will be restored -
    [admin@spooky ~]$ tar xvf mythund_bkp.tar.gz

4.) Start Thunderbird and your emails will be in place. The advantage of the above method is that it not only restores emails but also all your settings. So you do not have to reconfigure your POP mailboxes etc. Even your extensions are preserved.

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