Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
Google Chrome stable version out
Google, today released a new stable release of it’s popular web browser Google Chrome packed with all the beta goodies we have come to love. To add to the excitement, this will also be the first stable release of the browser for the Linux and Mac platforms. What’s in it you ask? 1. HTML 5, [...]
Android on the iPhone
It was juat a matter of time before someopne ported Android over to the iPhone. Planetbeing, iPhone hacker had managed to dual boot an iPhone to run both Android and iPhoneOS. The video’s long but intended to walk you thought the whole process. You actually see Linux booting and shit… For now it’s only working [...]
Install Google Chrome on Fedora 12
1. create the repo file. “vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo” and add the following lines into the file. [google] name=Google – i386 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 2. Do a “yum list google-chrome-*” to check if the google-chrome is available for install. [root@dexter ~]# yum list google-chrome-* ………. ……. google-chrome-beta.i386 5.0.342.9-43360 google google-chrome-unstable.i386 5.0.375.9-44625 [...]
Sort files by size
Here’s how to sort files by size in Linux. Standard; ls -lhS Reverse; ls -lhSr Options used; -l –> print long listing -h –> print human readable sizes -S –> sort by file size -r –> reverse order Output; [root@kmon01 log]# ls -lhS total 70M -rw-r–r– 1 root root 36M Mar 31 11:28 messages -rw-r–r– [...]
History command with time stamp
Running the ‘ history ‘ command only gives you line numbers. Sometimes it’s useful to have a time stamp attached to each command to build a clearer picture. Simply set the ” HISTTIMEFORMAT ” env variable to enable time stamps in ‘ history ‘. Run the command below. export HISTTIMEFORMAT=’ %F %T ‘ Before: After:
