multimedia keyboard

The tool xbindkeys (it has a GUI configurator too, but its a independently distributed tool)

http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

U can configure any of the keys on the keyboard to change the PCM volume, mute xmms, Forward a song by 3 minutes,
basically anything that can be done from a commandline by mapping a key(s) mapped to the command in xbindkeys.

Moral of the story: therz no point spending money on a MultiMedia Keyboard if u use Linux..

Mozilla-Keyboard

In Mozilla u can search a word in the webpage using "/" for searching Text

to search Links just type the word on the page...the link containg the word highligts!! Just click enter and vola!! u r to the page u want!!

-Celebrate Browsing

Latex-Vim

vim-latex will make ur life of writing tex files too easy..
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net

if u use gvim then u have a very nice GUI for automagically composing most of latex keywords.

Gentoo: Bootsplash, Framebufer etc..

http://wiki.gentoo-portage.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash

Command line IDE

try motor at http://www.freeos.com/articles/2876/

Installing 3rd party Ebuilds in Gentoo

http://wiki.gentoo-portage.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds

changing priority of jobs

before a job starts:
> nice -n 12 make

after a proces started:

> renice 12 -p
> renice 12 -u joe

Priority ranges: -20 to 20

-20 means high priority and 20 is low priority.

Printer Setup

u can use the easy to use web-interface CUPS configurator that runs on port 631.

http://localhost:631/admin

to configure Network Printers or a Printer on ur Local Machine.

Its good to download the ppd file before u start the installation.

USB flash drive

Its usually a scsi device..

so u can mount it using
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

u can use fdisk on this device and create partitions on it, its just like any other harddisk.

ctags

use ctags, this make browsing the source code very convinient.

ctags -R *

Note: the command sometimes maybe exuberant-ctags

finding all files with same extension

* find . -name "*.txt" -print
o (Print out all names of files with the .txt extension that are in the current directory and its subdirectories)
* find . \( -name "*.cpp" -o -name "*.txt" \) -print
o (Print out all the file names which end with either .cpp or .txt. Note that you have to group multiple expressions with \( and \).)

Printing Text FIles

a2ps -E -o output-filename input-text-file

-E is for pretty printing and
Warning: without -o it might directly fo to the printer.