Archive for the ‘*NIX’ Category
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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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