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Category: Technology
I don't mean blog posts or emails. For blog posts I use souped up gedit, and for emails I use pico. (There was a time when I thought I'd be using emacs for both of those, but emacs suffers from a deep philosophical dysfunction.) I'm...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:11 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
And when I say bash math, I do not mean being mean to math, and I do not mean math as it is done in bash. I mean math as humans do it, but on the bash command line....
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:35 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Huh? ...The person I was talking to responded (quite seriously) that WYSIWYG means "What You See Is What You Get", not "What They Get", that Word actually renders the document on screen based on the capabilities of the default printer on that computer, so that...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:05 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Google is great, and yes, I know all those tricks that make it greater. But I still want to use REGEX in some cases. So, I figured out a way to do that, in theory, all I need now is the code......
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:07 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Move Over Windows 7!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:30 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Log files are good because they log stuff, so you can find out what's been going on and troubleshoot. But they tend to accumulate and can actually fill up your hard drive. Most Linux distros have automatic log file management for common system logs, but...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:11 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: alpine email
By now I assume you've experimented with Alpine, as a character-based email client. Well, I have another tip for you....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
Well, not really. But if you are looking forward to this momentous occasion, have a look at Linux in Exile's pre-release commentary. Here....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:15 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
By default, the text-based email client 'alpine' requests a password the first time, per session, that it is requested a password from any email services it checks. For the duration of that session, it remembers the password, but forgets it if you quit alpine so...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
For today's Linux Hint: How to pick which browser will open when you pick a link while using apine in Ubuntu....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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