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More than 100% CPU in top in Linux/Mac

Srijith R — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:20:23 +0000

If you are power linux/mac user you should have noticed at least once that top shows more than 100% CPU for a process. I also have seen this multiple times but always wondered how it can be. Here is an example of how my top looked when I started my java an ...

Auto Backup using Dropbox in Linux/Mac

Srijith R — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:17:11 +0000

I had some folders on my disk which I wanted to keep a copy online as a backup and for viewing from other places. Its not always possible to save all the essentials in the drop box folder itself to be auto backed up. Thus I wrote a very small script which ...

Automatic Command Archive

Srijith R — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:45:19 +0000

The default command storing size of ubuntu is 500 commands. It stores the commands in home folder in the file ".bash_history" . The problem is 500 commands is too short of a size. One method is to increase the command size to a large value by changing th ...

BSNL Dataone Auto Downloader

Srijith R — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:41:43 +0000

Bsnl(India) provides an account that has 2am to 8am unlimited download. It was not easy to wake up at 2am and switch on the computer and sleep again. So I tried to find a method to switch on the computer automatically at 2am and download and shutdown at 8a ...

Script for Auto Copying of Cds/Dvds

Srijith R — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:12:30 +0000

Here is a script that i created for automatically copying all the files in cd to a folder and ejecting and waiting for the next cd. So here is how it works. You need to change the folder names and paths accordingly. And the shell script as [shell] ...

Display Reminders In Gnome Panel

Srijith R — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:40:29 +0000

It was a long standing requirement of mine to create a reminder software or something which can keep me reminding of things as I always keep forgetting things. So I made a reminder that displays my reminders on the Gnome Panel. It looks something like thi ...

Copy in Linux with Ui

Srijith R — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:59:15 +0000

The program here is an UI for cp command. I have used cp in the background but over that I am just monitoring the files copied and speed of copying. It's not a perfected program. It's quick one but works fine. Execution: Create a file named copy and ins ...

Microsoft Servers in Linux

Srijith R — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:42:10 +0000

Well this is funny Microsoft has it's " download.microsoft.com" servers running in linux. Good going guys. You people know what's the best suited ones. But do you know a product of yours called Windows Server edition? [shell] $sudo nmap -O download.m ...

Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux

Srijith R — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:17:21 +0000

I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is "gconftool-2". So code is like: [bash] #!/bin/bash folder="/h ...

Adding RedHat DVD as Repository

Srijith R — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:08:23 +0000

When we try out a new linux OS its always a pain to download and install all the software and add packages we needs on that. Its even worse if you don't have an unlimited connection. But actually most of the software we need is already there in the CD/DV ...