Archive for the ‘*NIX’ Category

Moving On From Windows

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

I can't stand the thought of using Vista. I am an XP user; by which I mean to say I get by using cygwin and some of the Windows apps. But I've used Vista enough for me to know that I must draw the proverbial line in the sand there. ...

Django on Dreamhost

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

It doesn't take much searching to suspect that Django on Dreamhost maby not be an ideal environment, but it does work. Running Django on Dreamhost involves using Fastcgi, which is officially supported by Django, but not a recommended configuration. I found following the official tutorial sufficient in setting up Django on ...

Upgrading Python on a Dreamhost Account

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Java is just my day job. In fact, it's pretty dull too sometimes. I like to venture out when I can and work with other technologies. In this case, I've been messing around with Django on my Dreamhost account. This short tutorial is intended to be the first of several ...

Qemu and DSL HD Install on a Thumbdrive

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

This is something I've always thought would be useful- a small linux distro installed on a thumbdrive. I'm not talking about an in-memory install; not knoppix. I want to be able to boot from within windows, but still save my stuff to the thumbdrive. I've used MS Virtual PC and ...

Configuring Pine with Fetchmail and Procmail on Cygwin

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The previous post is fine if you just want to use pine with imap, but my real goal here is to use a new app I've been working on and to do that I'll need fetchmail to retrieve my mail for me, instead of a built in pine imap or ...

Mad Command Line Skillz

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

I've been working with shell scripts recently. The *NIX command line has some really powerful tools, but I'm afraid to say I'm starting to feel pretty comfortable in my Java IDE land, or in Python land, hell even in Ruby land. And going back to shell scripting has not been ...

Ajaxterm: a web-enabled server terminal

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Ever want to access your server, but that pesky firewall at work only allows web access? AjaxTerm is the answer. It is a python application that creates a virtual CONSOLE for the server it is installed on. It is simple to install and launch, you just need to configure ...

Windows XP: Batch of Goodies

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

A couple of Windows batch files. Because sometimes while I'm at a Windows Console, I'm still thinking UNIX commands. Launching a graphical executable from the command line vi.bat @echo off start "title" /b "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70\gvim.exe" %* Locating the executable in the classpath which.bat @ECHO OFF setlocal set DELAY=YES set DELAY=!DELAY! if "%DELAY%" == "YES" ( set files= for %%i in (%PATHEXT%) DO set ...

RTC Core Competencies - Your “Console” of Choice

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Post 'em here. rxvt -g +450+485 -fg green -bg black -fn 'Courier New-20' -sr -sl 3000 -cr green -e /bin/bash --login -i I use the following in my shortcut: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash --login -i And then I have this in my .Xresources (for rxvt) ! rxvt settings rxvt*font: 9x15 rxvt*cursorColor: MediumOrchid3 rxvt*background: grey15 rxvt*foreground: wheat3 rxvt*saveLines: 1500 rxvt*pointerColor: MediumOrchid3 rxvt*visualBell: off rxvt*scrollBar_right: ...