The Danesh Project

Burger King Supreme Angus Steakhouse for RM5

For 1 day only, TODAY! Enjoy Burger King’s Supreme Angus Steakhouse burger for only RM5.

How to install hddtemp on CentOS 6.2

hddtemp is a simple small app to monitor your hard disk temperature. It works by accessing the SMART capability of modern disks.

Here’s how to install it.

Download and compile from source.
#cd /tmp
#wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/hddtemp/hddtemp-0.3-beta15.tar.bz2
#tar -jxvf hddtemp-0.3-beta15.tar.bz2
#cd hddtemp-0.3-beta15
#./configure
#make
#make install
#cd /usr/share/misc/
#wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/hddtemp/hddtemp.db

Test it.
#hddtemp /dev/sda
#/dev/sda: WDC WD2500JS-75NCB3 : 45°C

Achievement Unlocked!

Work in IT? Unlocked any achievements lately? See how many you can check off from the full list.

Box.net via WebDAV on Fedora 16

I was lucky enough to get a free 50GB box.net account. 50GB is alot!. However, the catch, individual files can’t exceed 100mb each. lol

I mainly use my box.net to hold eBooks for later access on my Laptop and Android devices.

There is no free client for Linux so I use WebDAV instead. It’s slower but it works.

Start by installing davfs2.
# sudo yum install davfs2
Create your Box.net directory
# mkdir ~/Box.net
Create the davfs2 config directory. It’s in your home dir so it’s not system wide.
# mkdir ~/.davfs2
Disable locking. Causes issues sometimes.
# cd ~/.davfs2
# echo "use_locks 0" > davfs2.conf
Create a secret file to hold your box.net login details. Make sure to “chmod 600 the file”
# echo "https://www.box.net/dav [you box.net login] [your box.net password]" > secrets
# chmod 600 secrets
Backup and update your /etc/fstab file to include your box.net directory.
# cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.ori
# echo "https://www.box.net/dav /home/danesh/Box.net davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
Mount and you should be able to list ~/Box.net
# mount ~/Box.net
# ls -l ~/Box.net

This is the hard way to do this. I will post a simpler method using Nautilus in a future post.

How to install Android’s Roboto font in Fedora 16

I love the new Android Roboto font family and it looks good on my Fedora 16 install. Here’s how you can get it into your Fedora 16.

1. Change to root user
# su -
2. Create the the roboto directory
# cd /usr/share/fonts/
# mkdir roboto
# cd roboto
3. Download the roboto font and install it.
# wget http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/roboto -O roboto.zip
# unzip roboto.zip
# rm roboto.zip
# fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/roboto/

Enjoy your new Roboto fonts!