Wednesday, September 23, 2009
This is a great list of bang command usage.
Friday, September 18, 2009
A nice list of bash shortcuts
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
I named this script “spell”. Simply [...]
I can finally sleep at night now that I have a command-line solution for Google Talk.
What’s needed (for a poor windows user):
Mcabber, a jabber client from http://mcabber.com
Cygwin, http://cygwin.com
Ssh package for cygwin, if you need to install mcabber elsewhere and then connect to it remotely.
If cygwin and ssh are new to you, read this to get [...]
I always forget this, and periodically find myself setting up a new pine client. So rather than digging around on the web each time, I’m adding my notes here:
Create a .pinerc file, maybe a custom one for gmail like .gmailpinerc
POP3
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/user=user@gmail.com/ssl
inbox-path={pop.gmail.com/pop3/ssl/user=user@gmail.com}inbox
IMAP
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls/user= user@gmail.com
inbox-path={imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert/user= user@gmail.com}inbox
There are a host of other options that can be configured, but this is a good [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
So you might be sitting around asking yourself,
“Do I really need a web browser or collection of clunky travel dictionaries to translate to and from different languages of the world? Isn’t there a command line tool that can do the same thing and make my life easier, while making me even more awesome at [...]
Screen is a great tool for command-line usage, and is also available for cygwin. If you enjoy using the command line, and haven’t checked out screen, I highly recommend it. I found some of the commands and configuration changes a little difficult to remember, so I’m adding them here.
First of all, the main screen escape [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Macros are really useful for programming, but since adopting Eclipse I haven’t been using them as much, much to the detriment of my fingers.
For a while I used Notepad++ for macros. Macros are easy to use with Notepad++, but unfortunately you’re limited to trivially simple macros- for example, you can’t “search” your way through a [...]
I can’t stand the thought of using Vista. I am an XP user; by which I mean to say I get by using cygwin and some of the Windows apps. But I’ve used Vista enough for me to know that I must draw the proverbial line in the sand there.
XP will be the last Windows [...]
Sunday, September 28, 2008
It doesn’t take much searching to suspect that Django on Dreamhost maby not be an ideal environment, but it does work. Running Django on Dreamhost involves using Fastcgi, which is officially supported by Django, but not a recommended configuration.
I found following the official tutorial sufficient in setting up Django on Dreamhost.
A couple of notes from [...]