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Category: one-liners
In the old days, you could just use the "help" menu item to figure this out (drilling down to "about") but now there is so much "helpful" crap in the dialog that opens when you do so, that it has become much less helpful. So...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:45 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
You are typing some text into an editing window in your FIrefox Browser, and you spell something terribly wrong. Like this: I am so glad I upgreaded to Firefox 2.0, because it has a built in spell checker. You see the error where you meant...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
The command dmidecode is " is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 54 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
