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NeroLinux - diehard Nero burning software 2007-09-18 02:32:00 For die-hard Nero burning software fans, Nero burning software also comes in Linux. Nero Linux is a flexible application, which supports all important features of Nero Burning ROM on Linux... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Google Sky - Explore and Rediscover the Sky 2007-09-17 06:08:00 Now, I have a chance to post a 3D rendering related linux blog entry here that explores more of the Stars and Sky using Google Earth. Three weeks ago, Google launched the latest addition and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Google

Celestia - 3D Earth and Sky visualization 2007-09-17 04:37:00 Here's another linux application that that lets you explore the sky, planets, stars, galaxy and universe in three dimensions (3D), also an alternative for MS Visual Earth. Celestia is a real-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Earth3D - real-time 3D Earth visualization 2007-09-17 04:23:00 Here's a linux alternative to Microsoft Visual Earth. Earth3D is a linux application for visualizing the earth in realtime 3D view. Earth3D displays the recent satellite images and map data into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

GcStar - managing personal collection items 2007-09-16 04:37:00 Here's another graphical tool for managing your personal collections item in Linux. GCStar is a nice item management and GNOME based graphical application linux tool. Current version of GcStar... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

DStat - resource statistics linux tool 2007-09-15 20:27:00 DStat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Bandwidth Monitor-NG - terminal-based interface bandwidth monitoring tool 2007-09-15 19:51:00 Here's another simple terminal-based tool for monitoring network interface and disk I/O ;ove bandwidth. This tool is currently available from Fedora yum repos. Bandwidth Monitor NG (BMW-NG) network... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

KNemo - KDE network interface monitoring tool 2007-09-15 19:26:00 Here's a KDE-based netwok interface monitoring tool similar to the one found in Windows. For every network interface from your linux box, KNemo displays network interface as icons from your desktop... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

EtherApe - graphical network activity monitoring tool 2007-09-15 18:45:00 There are times we need to monitor and analyze ongoing network traffic that passes from our current network and display it graphically in real-time mode from our GNOME desktop. Here's another... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Beauty of Math using Linux 2007-09-14 17:35:00 This evening, I received an email showing me several beauty of math numbers, that fascinated me. This email of Beauty of Math Numbers is not really related to my linux blog. However, my attempt for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

print leading/trailing lines before/after a matching string 2007-09-14 16:52:00 Usually all mail log files specially SendMail, Qmail and Postfix, generates multi-lines of mail log files into its default log file. That is, a message line is being dumped to a log file from the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Nagios Monitoring - install and generic setup howto 2007-09-14 11:21:00 A lot of powerful monitoring tools are freely available from linux world. One of them is Nagios. Nagios is a fairly complex linux monitoring tool that determines current status of target host or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

ChRT- change real-time attribute process scheduling 2007-09-14 06:12:00 With regards to linux blog entry posted last month about process scheduling prioritization, here's another way to schedule and modify real-time attributes of linux commands when launched or currently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

squeezed out multiple commented lines 2007-09-12 09:57:00 Whooah, that is so fast. Here's an email request to cover a simple and quick way on squeezing out multiple commented lines from config file as per email request. This is applicable to hundred lines... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

UNIX to DOS text file format converter 2007-09-12 09:39:00 Twelve years ago, I was creating a simple C++ program, as part of a job request, to convert a unix text file into a DOS text file format readable by some banks' data processing department. Yes,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...