Every Geek site needs an obligatory Bash Tips post Copy Files Securely Between Two Machines I used to always forget the syntax for this, until I realized that the syntax is exactly like the standard cp command. In fact, you can copy files like you normally would using scp, on your local machine. The following are equivalent: $ [...]
Friday, May 1, 2009
The following plugin for Pidgin will block the incredibly annoying and useless notifications from AOLSystemMsg on AIM. “AOL System Msg: Your screen name (mrEman) is now signed into AOL(R) Instant Messenger (TM) in 2 locations. Click here for more information.” To use, paste code in file, save file as blockaolsystemmsg.pl in ~/.purple/plugins/ and then open (or re-open) [...]
Saturday, April 11, 2009
I have updated the vim page with my vimrc/gvimrc configs. Instead of repeating myself, I will quote some parts of the page .. More details and the vim config itself here I recommend turning backups on if you have them off. I personally hate having the ~ files all over my OS, so I keep them along [...]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Static sites in this context just means non-database driven sites. Your static site can be an elaborate PHP script or just a few markup and image files. For this I am using Jekyll – A neat Ruby gem that makes your static sites dynamic. It lets you create layouts and embed custom variables in your [...]
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
You could run ImgBurn in Wine, or probably burn the games in VirtualBox running Windows, but that’s no solution… you’re reading this because you want to burn Xbox 360 games on Linux using native tools. It’s surprisingly easy! The games are usually an ISO file, along with a little DVD (.dvd) file that tells the burner [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
I used Gentoo for a few years, and at first I loved it. Mainly because of portage, but the only distro I had experience with before Gentoo was Slackware, and I used to install packages and dependencies manually, so you can see why Gentoo would was so appealing to me. When I first began my new [...]
Saturday, December 27, 2008
A quick script I whipped up to dump my MySQL database. Usage: sh backthatsqlup.sh (be warned that it dumps ALL databases. This can get huge uncompressed) #!/bin/sh # Isam (Biodegradablegeek.com) public domain 12/28/2008 # Basic BASH script to dump and compress a MySQL dump out=sequel_`date +'%m%d%Y_%M%S'`.sql dest=/bx/ function e { echo -e "n** $1" } e "Dumping SQL file ($out). May take awhile..." #echo "oh [...]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
I did find it weird that I kept running out of disk space recently. That hasn’t happened in years, and most of my big files go on another HD. On top of that, this box has been sluggish lately, even taking into account the fact that it’s ~4 years old and I always have 5-6 [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
I’ve recently taken a fancy to Mephisto, a blogging-platform written in Rails. I have nothing against Wordpress, but being in Ruby and using Liquid for themes, Mephisto is far easier (and more fun) to tweak and configure, especially when I want to migrate my sites away from the “blog look” and make them more dynamic. [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Just sharing a script I wrote to quickly deploy Wordpress (and eventually a few other webapps) sites, which somebody might find useful. This uses Linode’s API* to add the domain name to the DNS server along with some subdomains. If you’re using another server, (Slicehost, your own, etc), you can alter the dns class to [...]
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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