lshw -html > sysinfo.html

You may need to install it first… For Debian and Ubuntu users installation is simple..

sudo aptitude install lshw

You can find the detailed information about lshw from the following page: http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter

First, install the curl package:

sudo apt-get install curl

Next, create a script anywhere in your $PATH, for example tweet.sh inside ~/bin, where ~ is your home directory (make sure ~/bin is included in your $PATH variable, in case echo $PATH doesn’t return it, edit ~/.bashrc and add a line like this: export PATH=/home/USER/bin/:$PATH)…

The script tweet.sh should contain the following:

#!/bin/sh

############EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINES...###########################
user="USERNAME"
pass="PASSWORD"
##################################################################

######################DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS######################
tweet="${@}"

if [ $(echo "${tweet}" | wc -c) -gt 140 ]; then
    echo "FATAL: The tweet is longer than 140 characters!"
    exit 1
fi

curl -k -u ${user}:${pass} -d status="${tweet}" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
    echo "Successful tweet!"
fi

Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your Twitter username and password, and then make the script executable:

chmod 755 ~/bin/tweet.sh

And now test it.. Just use it as :

tweet.sh YOUR MESSAGE

This should be all…

If you don’t want to copy paste the code for tweet.sh then use the following link to download tweet.txt and RENAME it as tweet.sh

Fedora 12 can boot in 20 seconds, rivaling Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7.  Like other recent Linux releases, Fedora 12 also uses the more efficient and speedier ext4 as the default file system. As of Fedora 12, the base x86 architecture is now i686.  This move away from i586 means the end of the road for older style processors.  It also means that faster binaries can be created because of the concentration on current and future processor designs.

Fedora 12 also provides an easier way to install missing applications. A PackageKit browser plugin allows users to go online to securely install applications from websites.  To make things easier for those who still like the command line, its includes by default the PackageKit command not found functionality

Aside from including Gnome 2.28 and KDE 4.3 as desktop options, it includes the Fedora Moblin desktop.  Designed and optimized to run on netbooks or Mobile Internet Devices (MID), Fedora Moblin gives users another alternative to Ubuntu or Microsoft as desktops for these devices.

All in all, Fedora 12 is a major and compelling upgrade to a venerable Linux OS.  With the plethora of new features that Fedora 12 has, both hard core as well as casual users will surely pleased.

Have a look at Fedora 12 (release notes).

One of the goal is to bring the Sugar OS to any computer, not just the OLPC XO Laptop. And as step one, the team released Sugar on a Stick a while back. Basically, what Sugar on a Stick lets you do is download and install the Sugar OS onto a USB flash disk with 1GB of storage space or more. The end result is a USB stick that you can insert into pretty much any x86 based computer to boot into the Sugar environment.

There are two versions of Sugar on a Stick available at the moment. One is based on Fedora 10, while the other is based on Ubuntu 8.10. I tried out the Fedora version, which also makes it easy to create persistent storage space on the flash drive, which means you can save any changes to the USB stick. In other words, while Sugar on a Stick boots like a LiveUSB, since you can save changes you can treat it like a portable operating system. You can carry it with you and plug it into any computer to pull up your operating environment. I used Sugar USB pen drive on my Dell XPS M1530. 

Sugar OS is designed primarily as an educational tool for children, and includes a number of games, and other tools including utilities kids can use to write their own programs. But if you want to see what the buzz is about without buying your own XO Laptop, Sugar on a Stick is the way to go.

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