Shell script to post twit.

For posting a simple twit, I had to go on twitter every time, But for lazy person like me, Its too tough. I was looking for a simple tool to post twit. I found a very interesting and simple shell script to post twit from Linux command line.*Install "curl" if you don't have already.       #yum install curl*Copy the colored code and save as twit.sh*Replace USER with your Twitter A/c's user name and PASSWORD with password.*make twit.sh executable.      ...

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How fast is your Thumb Drive ?

There are lot of tools available to check data transfer rate in Windows. But on Linux  you can check data transfer rate by just using one command.Open Terminal.Application >System Tools > Terminal.Login with super user credential.$supassword : (root password)#hdparm -t /dev/sdb (in my case sdb is pendrive)/dev/sdb:Timing buffered disk reads:   60 MB in  3.00 seconds =  19.98 MB/secFor detail usage of hdparm command go to terminal and type#man hdparmor#hdparm --helpNote...

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