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Twitter Mode for Emacs – With OAuth

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Twitter’s recent removal of basic authentication eliminated the ability to use quick and dirty methods of posting tweets and viewing timelines, such as via the command-line with cURL. There is one twitter mode, twitel.el, that I had already been using. Supposedly it can handle OAuth through the emacs-oauth package, with some minor custom tweaks to [...]

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Gnus, Emacs, and Gmail; Getting Started

Monday, September 20, 2010

I’ve wanted to set up gnus for email for quite a while, but each time I look at the documentation I find it irritating. The fact is there is a ton of documentation, but all of what I’ve found requires a lot of background knowledge that I don’t have. But I finally broke through, setting [...]

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Subversion, JavaHL, and Eclipse on Linux

Saturday, July 10, 2010

I normally use emacs and command line svn when working at home on Linux. Eclipse to me, in principle, is a necessary evil of programming with larger groups. But a recent volunteer project I’ve been working on for the Philippine Scholars of Minnesota is forcing me out of this habit. And with this change, I’ve [...]

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Syncing IPod in Linux

Sunday, June 6, 2010

A colleague recently pointed me to an article about syncing my ipod with a Linux box. The article is good but my experience getting this to work was sufficiently different enough to warrant another post. My first issue came with Step 1: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa This issue I had was that the keyserver was down. [...]

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Installing Sup on Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS

Sunday, April 18, 2010

This is not a complete step-by-step set of instructions, but it should be pretty close. sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/69365/rubygems-1.3.6.tgz tar -zxvf rubygems-1.3.6.tgz cd rubygems-1.3.6/ sudo ruby setup.rb sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem sudo gem update –system sudo gem install rake sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev uuid-dev sudo gem install ncursesw # We need [...]

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Simple Processes: Bash vs. Python – “A No-Brainer”

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I haven’t posted in about 5 billion years. Well, it seems like that anyway. As I sit here partying with my laptop on a Friday night, I’ve been wondering how to display the track length of the current track that xmms2 is playing, without having to use the “xmms2 status” command. Yes, I listen to [...]

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Linux Banging

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

This is a great list of bang command usage.

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Mcabber Install on Dreamhost

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

I’m reposting this, it’s what I used to install mcabber on dreamhost: From your home directory: mkdir bin lib tmp chmod 777 tmp chmod 755 bin lib echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile echo "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig" >> ~/.bash_profile echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bash_profile cd ~/tmp wget ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.19/glib-2.19.8.tar.gz tar -xvzf glib-2.19.8.tar.gz cd glib-2.19.8 ./configure –prefix=$HOME [...]

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Bash Shortcuts

Friday, September 18, 2009

A nice list of bash shortcuts

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Quick command line spell check of a single word or sentence

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Here’s a short bash script, using aspell, to spell check a word or several words from the command line. It’s simple but effective. If anyone else knows a cleaner or even simpler way, please let us know. #!/bin/bash WORD=$1 TEMPFILE=temp.spell echo $WORD > $TEMPFILE aspell -c $TEMPFILE cat $TEMPFILE rm -f $TEMPFILE rm -f $TEMPFILE.bak [...]

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