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Monday, May 5th, 2014
I was trying to explain to a friend why I still prefer using vim (with bash + screen) over something like Sublime or PHP Storm or whatever. Here's my response:
If I told you, there's this amazing knork thing that's just been invented, it's a knife combined with a ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Screen allows you to create multiple sessions in which to execute processes (normally interactive shells, at least for me). The most common way of using these multiple shells is via the key bindings to switch between them (ctrl + a,<space> being the most common in my experience).
Often, some windows are ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Hooray. I like keeping up with what my friends are up to, and add any weblog feeds I find to Google Reader whenever I come across one.
Recently I've realised how many of them are using Twitter, which I've signed up for but have no interest in using myself. So, it ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
How to use variable variables in bash:
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ tits=arse
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ arse=cheese
# this way I figured out myself after a long time pulling my hair out
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ echo ${!tits}
cheese
# this I found later at http://www.seocam.net/how-tos/how-to-create-variable-variables-in-bash
[mimi:pgl]:~ $ eval echo $`echo $tits`
cheese
# how to assign to a variable variable:
[vini:plowe]:~ $ tits=cheese
[vini:plowe]:~ $ arse=tits
[vini:plowe]:~ ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Interesting:
• YouTomb.
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
Also: cool!
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
## arrays in bash: assignment, indexing, and looping
##
# assign multiple values to a new array:
array=(tits arse)
# or:
array=([0]=tits [1]=arse)
# or:
array=([0]=tits arse)
# assign single values to specific indices:
array[2]='cheese'
# add a new value to the end of the array (push)
array+=(hmm)
# NB: indices do not have to be congiuous:
array[5]='last'
# view specific element of an ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
If you weren't already familiar with it, LinkedIn is a social networking site that focuses on the professional side of networking. Essentially it's the same model the rest of them:
Get people signed up through a pyramid scheme based around people's need to feel popular and their ability to believe that ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Woo! I love Inconsolata (see also Raph Levien's main page) - so much so that I've even recommended (on the About page (which I know you haven't read)) downloading it as I've set it for the default monospace font on this site.
One problem it's always had, though, is that it looks ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
# annoying:
[jem:pgl]:~/p/misc_useful $ /usr/bin/scp scp\:copying-filenames-with-colons-in-them.txt localhost:/dev/null
ssh: scp: Name or service not known
# sorted:
[jem:pgl]:~/p/misc_useful $ /usr/bin/scp ./scp\:copying-filenames-with-colons-in-them.txt localhost:/dev/null
The authenticity of host 'localhost (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 12:2b:3a:4e:be:6f:41:f2:20:4c:1b:ee:6a:46:35:61.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'localhost' (RSA) to the list ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
From the Nokia forums (and approx. 2bn other places around the web where people are asking the same question):
"Does any one know how to synchronize ... thunderbird ... with your nokia ... and the other way round?"
A perfectly valid question, especially since both Nokia and Thunderbird have been around quite ...
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