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Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Make STAR WARS message greet you when you open the terminal

I am a great fan of STAR WARS like many of you out there. So I decided to write a script which greets me with star wars message every time I open my Terminal to code.
Suppose say you are using Bash, when you open your terminal the file ~/.bashrc will run. Similarly if you are using Zsh => ~/.zshrc will run. So basically I can just put an echo statement in that to make it greet me every time I open my terminal. Today lets do something more interesting. Someting like this:


To get this you can just download this gist and add the contents in it to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc or ~/.cshrc ..etc depending on which shell you are using. Or you can just copy the following and paste it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc or ~/.cshrc


Saturday, 16 February 2013

(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443



I was setting up SSL on localhost to get https://localhost. I was successfully able to get the digital signature, sign it. But when i restarted apache2 I was getting this error:

(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443

This means that port was already being listened. Hence at first I tried to kill the processes which are using that port. When this didn't work I tried this:

open /etc/apache2/ports.conf
Remove the line outside any <IfModule> tag which says Listen 443

Problem solved!!

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Top 100 apps / software / libraries in Linux


Yesterday I took up the task of of listing out top hundred+ apps/softwares/libraries I use in Linux thinking that it might help people to make a list of what they have to install when they have newly installed linux.

         Editors
  1. vim - Vi improved
  2. gvim - Vim with GUI
  3. emacs
  4. kate
  5. geany - Good editor for many languages.
  6. bluefish - Good editor for PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS
  7. code blocks
  8. eclipse
  9. netbeans
  10. pycharm 
  11. jedit

    Programming
  12. qt designer - Design in Qt
  13. pyqt4 - Python Qt library
  14. qt creater - Design and Code for Qt
  15. freeglut - OpenGL library
  16. filezilla - Good ftp client
  17. g++ - c/c++ compiler
  18. cmake - Cross-Platform Makefile Generator
  19. wireshark - Packet analyser
  20. unetbootin - startup disk creater
  21. apache2 - apache server
  22. mysql - mysql client/server
  23. php5 - php5 library
  24. php5-mysql - mysql library for php
  25. ipython - interactive python shell
  26. phpmyadmin - manage mysql databases
  27. open-jdk - java development kit
  28. git - revision control
  29. sqlite3 - database
  30. arduino - arduino programming
  31. linux-matlab - matlab for linux
  32. FontForge - create your ttf, ps..etc
  33. xampp

    General stuff
  34. unrar - extract files from rar archives
  35. ark - KDE archiving tool
  36. kchmviewer -  Windows CHM viewer for KDE
  37. gsnash-viewer - swf viewer
  38. virtualbox - x86 virtualization solution
  39. wine - wine is not an emulator
  40. deluge - torrent client
  41. linuxdcpp - Dc++ client
  42. ubuntu-tweak -tweak ubuntu settings
  43. compiz-config -change compiz settings
  44. k3b - CD/DVD buring tool
  45. brasero - CD/DVD buring tool
  46. nerolinux - CD/DVD buring tool
  47. playonlinux - Play on Linux
  48. q4wine -runs  GUI utility for wine applications and prefixes management.
  49. dropbox - cloud
  50. gnome-do - Launcher application
  51. gparted - partition manager
  52. empathy - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client
  53. lightread - Google reader
  54. pidgin - IM client
  55. dolphin - File manager
  56. thunderbird - Mail manager
  57. cheese - webcam client
  58. evolution - calander
  59. adobe flash player
  60. axel - A light download accelerator for Linux
  61. proxychains - proxifier for linux
  62. ubuntu one - ubuntu cloud
  63. stellarium - astronomy
  64. byobu - cool terminal
  65. burg - customize how your bootloader looks
  66. dosbox
  67. docky - dock
  68. avant-window-navigator - MacOS X like panel for GNOME
  69. gnome-do - awesome searcher

    Update
  70. Conky

    Package Managers
  71. synaptic - package manager
  72. apt-fast - 'apt-get + axel' to download very fast
  73. aptitude - command line package manager
  74. pacman - package manager

    Browsers
  75. chomium-browser
  76. google-chrome-stable
  77. firefox
  78. konqueror - advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer

    Media editors
  79. picasa(on wine) - photo editor/viewer
  80. blender - 3D modelling
  81. gimp - photo editor
  82. audacity - audio editor
  83. inkscape - an SVG editing program
  84. dia - diagram editor (UML,Use Case,ER..etc)

    Update
  85. Kdenlive - awesome video editing software

    Media Players
  86. amarok
  87. banshee
  88. vlc
  89. mplayer
  90. Rhythmbox

    Interfaces
  91. unity
  92. gnome-shell 3
  93. kde plasma
  94. awesome
  95. openbox

    Games
  96. open Arena
  97. savage2
  98. assault cube
  99. nexuiz
  100. super tuxkart
  101. blobby volley
  102. hedgewars