Archive for February, 2007
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
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1. GIMP tries to load a random splash screen from the directory
$HOME/.gimp-2.2/splashes.
2. It then falls back to using $HOME/.gimp-2.2/gimp-splash.png.
3. If the user didn’t install any custom splash images, a random
image is picked from ${prefi
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
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This roadmap is designed to help you take the experience and knowledge that you already have in computing and redirect it to working in Linux
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The latest news about MySpace from Mashable. Make sure you visit Mashcodes for the latest:
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-MySpace layouts
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-MySpace generators
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-MySpace games
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-MySpace codes.
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figure out what files are older than a certain number of days, and then use the rm command to delete them.
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i like tinkering with ikea stuff and i know many other people who do too. whatever they may be - a funked up karlanda sofa, an ingenious idea for your pax wardrobe, a creative twist on your kitchen countertop, or even advice on how to finally stop flimsy
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Creates new Stikkit items
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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It’s a digital music player, FM radio, plus it has music management software to bring in your music. The 2-megapixel camera takes photos and records video, too. Surf the internet browser and enjoy multimedia messaging to send pictures, video, and sounds.
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It’s a system that worked great for me and I think will work for any tech-savvy person, so I’ll share it here in the hope it might help you. It involves a Perforce revision control system, a document scanner, and several hard drive organizational conventi
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Great article on the specifics of how to go from CDs to FLACs to streaming all your CDs.
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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more Hipster PDA 3×5 templates, for generic todo lists, note capture with icons, and a few other things not available in the D*I*Y planner series of hpda templates
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SpikeSource will become a reseller of Canonical Global Support Services for Ubuntu, and will eventually fully integrate the Ubuntu distribution into its SpikeIgnited solutions. SpikeSource will then be able to provide federated support and updates for the
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
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to use the output of one command as the parameter for another, simply enclose the command in {curly brackets}.
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Class::DBI::View is a Class::DBI wrapper to make virtual VIEWs.
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Simply put: Yubutils are a set of programs that allow access directly to YubNub directly from your computer (OS X, Linux or Windows).
The yubutils project is a grouped project that houses three main downloads.
1. yubController - a GUI front end for yu
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Reverse DNS Lookup an IP
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This commands lets your search the Google Notebook tool. If you use the flag “-p” before your search term it will search public pages. Without the “-p” flag it will just search your personal notebooks.
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This is a mammoth command to allow access to most (all?) del.icio.us features without remember multiple commands. The examples above give a list of the different features you can access using this command. Prefix ‘rss/’ to any argument to get the RSS vers
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
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commands that I want to run at least once or twice a day. It was tough to remember these commands until I found yet another really cool yubnub command called “sidenub”.
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Searches for all pairwise combinations of a given set of keywords. Useful if you have a list of favorite things and you are looking for more of the same.
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Initial post about the creation of what has come to be a vital tool in the everyday lives of command line geeks
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Dictionary Grep Search. Search words by regular expressions. . is a wildcard character * allows repetitions of the previous character (zero or more) ^ marks the beginning $ marks the end [] encloses a set of possibilities Option -size specifies the word l
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htmlref - Look up info about HTML tags at htmlplayground.com
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I ignore all but the most frequently used commands, and even then only look at commands I judge to be useful, working correctly, and easy to use.
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eatFeed allows you to pull selected data from a web feed (XML,RSS,ATOM,etc). You could use it to grab the title/url of the latest post on your favorite site. In addition to syndicated feeds, you could use eatFeed to retrieve data from any accepted data fi
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Search your own deli.cio.us bookmarks (not everyone else) Must be logged on first.
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scrape - display a snippet of text parsed from a web page.
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Applies several commands to a single word, effectively creating an instant mashup. Examples: mash porsche gim yim flk
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
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No more fumbling for paper and pencil on the road! Handy Auto Notes attaches securely to your car’s sun visor, door panel or seat back, making it easy to jot down important messages, lists or reminders any time. Includes a pad of paper with convenient cli
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“Tact is for people who aren’t witty enough to be sarcastic”
Refrigerator Magnet. high quality rectangle magnet has a white background with black edging and black wording.
$3.49
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Got a creative idea that is keeping you up? Thinking about your to-do list for tomorrow? Jot your ideas down if they’re keeping you up at night so you can let your thoughts relax and fall asleep easier.
Try the Night Writer Pen! It has a built-in blue
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“I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death” Tshirt.
White half-sun design and white type on slate blue 100 percent Preshrunk heavyweight cotton T-Shirt.
$14.99
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Keep Your Cell Phone Hand-y! Magical light-up hand safely grasps phone, flashes when it rings! Break-resistant clear polystyrene; holds phones with bases to 1 1/2″ wide. Includes 2 replaceable button batteries. 3 5/8×2 3/8×3″ high.
$9.98 (check for sal
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