Quick Tips

It usually happens with me that I am trying out a cli based tool or learnt some new trick, it works fine then, but later I can hardly recall what I did . In such cases, all I remember is either a part of the command or the time while I was doing it. I always wondered if we could get more out of the history command - days, time etc. After searching a little, I found that it is actually possible and could be done pretty easily.

Have you ever noticed that after formatting a partition or external storage device - hard disk etc. into ext2/3/4 decreases the total available disk space by some amount? That's because the file-system reserves some part of the space to privileged processes. This is done to make sure that in case of file-system fill up, when user processes may not be allowed to write to disk, privilege system processes(or root user) may still be able to function properly(write on disk) e.g. syslogd etc.

I have been using linux for more than 3 years, but I still come across some old/legacy applications that I have never even heard of. This time I came to know about the legendary fortune command. All it does is throw some random fortune (quotation) from a huge database on your screen. Before coming to any conclusion about the software, try it out first .

Those of you who have not been in such a situation would never know how it feels when you are stuck opening/deleting a file or directory. The more you have been working on the shell, the more it sucks. When I tried all I could to get it work and still ended up with the same error all the time, I just sat on my chair, staring at the monitor for a while, wondering if this is somekind of bash's loophole :P.

Have you ever looked at an Image and asked, "so, whats ur story?", really liked it and wished if you could find a larger resolution or wondered if the hot girl in the picture resembling your neighbour, is really her ? Well, either never ask and die with it, ask the girl and die(you never know) or stop thinking too much and just use the TinEye reverse Image search to find out all the places where the image appeared, better resolutions, a story maybe, who knows where you might end up.