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		<title>Generate Files with Random Content and Size in Bash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally you need to generate a bunch of random files with random content, usually for testing compression, user quotas or miscellaneous stuff.
Here&#8217;s one way, using the bash shell and a few handy linux utilities.

The bash $RANDOM function. It generates a random number between 0 &#8211; 32767.
Linux DD utility, to output files.
/dev/(h&#124;s)da, your hard drive in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/29/generate-files-with-random-content-and-size-in-bash/</link>
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		<title>How to Enable Flash in Google Chrome for Fedora 11 i686</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve installed the latest development builds of Chromium for Fedora Linux. The only thing lacking is that youtube is not loading. If not, what are you waiting for? Refer to one of my previous posts.
First make sure you install the Adobe yum repository.
As root:-


rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm


Then install the flash plugin.


yum install flash-plugin.i386


The flash plugin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/27/how-to-enable-flash-in-google-chrome-for-fedora-11-i686/</link>
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		<title>Temporarily Disable a Yum Repository</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you may run into problems updating Fedora via yum.  What you could do is temporarily disable the offending repository, and update everything else while the errors are being fixed upstream.

List out your enabled yum repositories.


$ yum repolist


You would get something like this:


[raja@atreides ~]$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/24/temporarily-disable-a-yum-repository/</link>
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		<title>Configure a Caching-Only Name Server in a Chroot Environment for Fedora 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having a caching only name-server on your local Machine speeds up your browsing. Here&#8217;s how to set up a slightly more secure caching server using ISC Bind in Fedora 11.

Install bind and bind-chroot packages


# yum install bind bind-chroot



Edit your /etc/sysconfig/named file.


# vim /etc/sysconfig/named


Add the following line:


ROOTDIR=&#34;/var/named/chroot&#34;



Edit your /etc/named.conf file.


# vim /etc/named.conf



Change the following line:


listen-on port [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/18/configure-a-caching-only-name-server-in-a-chroot-environment-for-fedora-11/</link>
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		<title>Change Your MAC Address in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some times it necessary to change your network MAC address on your linux box.
Unlike Windows, which requires some registry editing or even specialized tools, its just a command line away in Linux.
For example, lets change the MAC address of your first netwrok card, usually called eth0.
Let&#8217;s swith to being the root user and view the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/16/change-your-mac-address-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Find a Cheap VPS Hosting Provider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With VPS hosting becoming a more popular option among the techies, I&#8217;ve been tempted to get one.
 Among the reasons you&#8217;ve like to get a VPS include:-

You need root access
You wish to install a distro of your choice
Want more capabilities than offered by standard shared hosting
You have Ruby On Rails or Python Based Web Apps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/16/find-a-cheap-vps-provider/</link>
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		<title>Check Your Spelling in Linux using the Command Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can do a spell check on from the command line in Linux. 
First, make sure you have aspell installed. In Fedora, just yum install it.


$ yum install aspell


You&#8217;ll also need a dictionary, from which aspell can search for words.
A yum search aspell will give you a list.


[raja@atreides visilon]$ yum search aspell
-----------------------------------------------------------
aspell-af.i586 : Afrikaans dictionaries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/15/check-your-spelling-in-linux-using-the-command-line/</link>
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		<title>Stop Vim from Highlighting Search Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can search to words in vim using the &#8216;/&#8217; key when you&#8217;re in command mode. Unfortunately, new admins in their desperation to find a word may inadvertently specify a term too generic.
Vim provides search highlighting, but sometimes, the results are just plain fugly. For example, when searching for the word module in a httpd.conf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/14/stop-vim-from-highlighting-search-results/</link>
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		<title>Police report against Al-Islam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sigh. Never thought I&#8217;d bog about this. 
Can&#8217;t people just live together?
Henotheism (Greek εἷς θεός heis theos &#8220;one god&#8221;) is a term coined by Max Müller, to mean worshiping a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities.
Fully explained here, in the one &#038; only Wikipedia.  
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		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/14/police-report-against-al-islam/</link>
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		<title>How to Mass Rename Files in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When entrusted with the chore of renaming multiple file, the convenience of a script shines. After all, we ain&#8217;t robots designed to do just one thing. Today, I&#8217;ll show one method of renaming files, using a for loop in bash.
First, the task we are going to do:
We have a list of files:


[raja@atreides test]$ ls
data_file_1  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/12/how-to-mass-rename-files-in-linux/</link>
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