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Category Archives: *NIX

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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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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Revert to Console for IM – Gtalk Example using Mcabber

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Basic Pine Gmail Config

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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 [...]

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“Revert to Console” for Language Translation

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 [...]

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My Screen

Friday, January 23, 2009

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 [...]

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Emacs Macros 101

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 [...]

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Moving On From Windows

Sunday, November 9, 2008

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 [...]

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