Upgrade Fedora 18 to Fedora 19 using an ISO

To upgrade fedora the fedup package must first be installed, which can be accomplished by typing
# yum install fedup

There are three options for sourcing the packages needed for upgrade - using a network repository (--network) , a local ISO (--iso) file or a local device (--device) (hard drive, optical disk etc.).

In order to use an ISO file, it needs to exist locally on the filesystem of the system to be upgraded. The documentation is written as if that file is /home/user/fedora19dvd.iso but you will need to replace all instances of that path with the actual path of the ISO. Updates will be pulled in if you have network access on the machine to be upgraded.

Vi Editor Tips & Tricks

The most popular text editor for Linux and Unix operating system is vi (visual editor). It is the most robust and comprehensive text editor to work in CLI mode. Of course there are other text editor emacs, nano etc. The choice is yours.

Vi is the default text editor in Linux and Unix systems. So you don't need to install this package.

Add Maximize & Minimize Buttons in Gnome 3.6 (Fedora 18)

By default there is only close button on windows in Fedora 18. Users may get confused by this. But the maximize and minimize buttons can easily be included in either the following ways.

Show Desktop Icons in Gnome 3 (Fedora 18)

By default there are no visible icons on Gnome 3 desktop. You can make icons be visible through either of the following way.

Scheduled Message Box Popup in Fedora 18 Linux (Gnome Desktop)

I've been using Windows Task Scheduler to popup messages at scheduled time regularly to do certain works. I needed the same thing in Linux desktop and able found the same thing.

I used Gnome-Scheduler as the task scheduler program since it has a nice and simple GUI. Command line users can use crontab. KDE desktop users can try KCRon or KTimer (Link 1 or Link 2).

Setting Default Entry - GRUB 2 Configuration On BIOS Systems (Fedora 18 - Windows 7 Dual Boot)

In this tutorial I am going to show how to set the default entry in GRUB 2 in my Fedora 18 - Windows 7 dual boot system.
I already had Windows 7 in my system. I decided to start using Fedora 18. So I installed F18 in my system but found out that F18 boots default. I want Windows 7 to load by default because other users in my system is not familiar with this OS. So I changed the default entry in GRUB 2 according to the following.
Note that you need to be root to apply the following command.

PsExec and the Nasty Things It Can Do

PsExec and the Nasty Things It Can Do