So, pretend you have:
a new Mac laptop with a fast hard drive, but one that is smaller than all the data you need to backup
A backup hard drive you’ve used on Windows and Linux, but is formatted NTFS, and is much larger than your new laptop’s HD
You have files named on your system that needs [...]
For some reason, the Gentoo install of erlang put the man pages into man sections that ended in “erl”. For example, instead a directory named man3 for the 3rd man page section, it’s man3erl.
I wrote a quick alias erlman that only searches these erlang man page sections.
~/.bashrc
alias erlman="man -S 1erl:3erl:4erl:6erl"
I spent much to much time trying to figure out the right combination of video/audio encodings that would would from an RTSP streaming server (went with a RealServer demo, for now) to a variety of clients (QuickTime Player, VLC, various phones, etceteras.)
First, VLC is a champ. Every time I tried a new streaming server, [...]
I emerged spamassassin, which installed the spamd server, and the spamc client, with which to talk to the server.
However, the logs were complaing TELL commands have not been enabled. It seems that SPAMD_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/spamd is missing the -l (–allow-tell) option.
Adding the above -l to SPAMD_OPTS allowed spamc to talk to spamd and make [...]
I found it much easier to set up multiple smtp accounts for mutt using esmtp than anything else. It’s actually completely straightforward — just make esmtp do all the work …
install esmtp
create your ~/.esmtprc file
man esmtprc — seriously, it’s easy
add the following to your ~/.muttrc
set sendmail=”/usr/bin/esmtp”
set use_envelope_from
These are the most common options I use as a default terminal.
option
purpose
-rv
Reverse video — black->white, white->black;
changes the behavior of progams that care about dark and light terminals
-fade 75
When the terminal window looses focus, this setting fades to the paramenter’s percentage of brightness
-ls
Start the shell as a login shell
+sb
Turn off the scrollbar
-bc
Blink the cursor
-ip (or -tr)
Turn [...]
“rxvt-unicode” is a really nice terminal. You can increase loading speed and memory using, if you tend to use multiple terminals, by using the urxvtd daemon and the urxvtc client.
First, you need to launch urxvtd. This is as easy as adding a line like the following to your ~/.xinitrc:
urxvtd &
Once the daemon is [...]
I’m going to try to keep things I’ve learned about different command line apps here. I tend to move between more heavy desktop environments and lighter (and more interesting) window managers like ion3 or wmii.
This time, I’m going to actually keep notes of the different programs I use. This will include programs like rxvt-unicode, my [...]