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Jun

18

2009

From XKCD

posted 5 months ago

Feb

13

2009

posted 9 months ago

Feb

13

2009

VIM: tabs to spaces

:set expandtab
:retab!

Thanks to Daily Vim for this snippit.

posted 9 months ago

Feb

13

2009

Linux fold command

Need to set a default width to a CLI output? Check out the fold command:

$ echo “A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z” | fold -w 16

Output:

A B C D E F G H
I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W X
Y Z

posted 9 months ago

Jan

07

2009

Speed up firefox

Firefox 3 utilizes sqlite database. Every once in awhile, these need to be vacuumed.

for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f ‘VACUUM;’; done

posted 10 months ago

Jan

06

2009

Share current directory tree over the web

Want to show something on your machine to someone over the web? Don’t copy it or upload it somewhere. Just run “webshare” and the current directory and everything beneath it will be served from a new web server listening on port 8000. When your pal is finished, hit control-c.

alias webshare='python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"'

thanks to shell-fu.org for this!

posted 10 months ago

Jan

05

2009

Cleaning a Toilet with Coke

A good reason why NOT to drink soda.

posted 10 months ago

Dec

13

2008