Ruminations Galore

My latest article on Linux.com is now online. It talks of two Nautilus extensions that I really find useful. The article discusses 1) Opening terminal from within Nautilus and 2) Changing image resolution. The second is very special, since you can do away with opening any special program to change the resolution of the images. [...]

My latest article on Linux.com discusses implementing disk quotas to restrict a users’ disk space usage. From the article: If you manage a system that’s accessed by multiple users, you might have a user who hogs the disk space. Using disk quotas you can limit the amount of space available to each user. It’s fairly [...]

My latest article on Linux.com reveals two very useful albeit less known secrets of the man command. That’s right! The most used command on any Linux box, man, has two secrets that can save lives. Well almost. They do however save a lot of time, mouse clicks, head scratching and more. So head on over [...]

Once again, I inform you all of my article after it has done it’s round on all major news websites (read: lxer, linuxtoday, etc.). This article is about LVM. It covers how to setup LVM and some of the popular use cases, like extending you logical volume or the size of the volume group. If [...]

That’s the title of the latest Fedora title from Apress. It’s what kept me busy these past several months. To browse through the TOC of my book, visit the book’s page on Apress.com. You will find exciting deals on the book on Amazon. It’s time now to thank the people who’ve contributed towards making this [...]

Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily, until there’s no confusion left. Doesn’t seem to make any sense, and without some instruments making melodious sounds, even more so. This post is going to make two things clear: the importance of repetition and the need for repetition. Let me begin talking about repetitions by referencing the commercials we see [...]

I know I didn’t quite deliver on my promise. I last made a blog post in January, promising that never again would a month go by without me posting something. And yet, here I am apologizing for the lack of posts these past four months. Thing is, I’m really neck deep in work. There’s lots [...]

Drivel is a GNOME client that supports several blogging software such as MovableType, Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress and several others. It’s purpose, at first sight, appears to be increasing the life expectancy of your mouse, by reducing the number of clicks you normally need to make before making new entries to your blog. While, this hardly [...]

Yeah! So this explains all those test posts using Drivel I just thought I’d take a quick short break from all my CLI Magic series articles and write something about a graphical tool for a change. Drivel has its obvious advantages. For one, being a desktop blogging client, it reduces the number of clicks you [...]

I recently wrote an article on SoX, the swiss army knife of sound manipualtion programs. The article was published on Linux.com on Monday. It’s my 8th article in the CLI Magic series FTA: Sound eXchange (SoX) is a command-line sound sample translator. This Swiss Army knife of sound tools can be used to convert file [...]