Expect - automate your tasks

Expect is an automation tool which you can use to automatically put text into console, based on the expected output from application (telnet, ftp, ssh, scp...).

Pacman Howto

Pacman is a simple but powerful package manager used in Archlinux. To start using it, you need to know few basic parameters briefly described here.

Changing my default distribution...

Recently I tried to install ArchLinux. I've succeed and really got into it. It is minimalistic, rolling-release distribution, which is the right one for me :D
After a day or two of general tweaking my distribution was ready to use. Quickly it became my primary distribution.
My recommendations: if you like to use really customized system and if you like newest versions of software, don't hesitate to try ArchLinux.
I have to mention ArchLinux's great wiki and documentation where you can find almost everything.
For first-time installation I recommend The Beginners Guide. HF :)

How to change to LXDM and Openbox in OpenSuSE

If you like really minimalistic desktop environment you can try LX Desktop Manager and Openbox as your Window Manager. Here you'll find out how to configure all the necessary things.

SSH public key distribution and management

Recently I was working on a script which enables the distribution and management of public SSH keys to remote machines. If you need to distribute lots of keys or to delete lost of keys, this automation tool would be interesting for you.

Server availability monitoring with email notifications

I was searching for some tool to monitor availability of a computer in the network. Found some solutions, but they wasn't really satisfying. That's why I wrote this simple script inspired by one script I found.

Wrapper for googlecl calendar

Recently I was searching for tool to keep my TODO list synchronized with my laptop and my mobile phone. One simple and effective solution is to use googlecl tool to manage the calendar entries. I've written a simple wrapper to make it really easy to work with googlecl and to use it as a simple TODO list for console.