Archive for September, 2009

Terminal Heroes – 4 – regexpias lair

Posted by Ktoso under coding, freedom, fun, terminal heroes (2 Responds)

Let’s drop a little humor in this time… You, brave Terminal Hero, shall kill -9 the daemon that has hidden itself in one of those files! We don’t know in which file you can find it though! We’re running out of time! The kingdom of GNU will be rm -rf‘d if you won’t make it [...]

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Terminal Heroes – 3 – ^^ typo fixing

Posted by Ktoso under coding, freedom, terminal heroes (No Respond)

A great bash feature I just discovered is the “^blabla^bla” command (is it a “command” by the way..?) If typing stuff quickly by hand, typing mistakes (typos) happen… And it’s not really fast to fix them by using UP ARROW and then fixing the command by “hand”… A better, quicker way to do this is [...]

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Fedora: Installing single apps from Rawhide

Posted by Ktoso under coding, freedom (No Respond)

I really love the Exaile gnome music player, and not so long ago version 0.3.0 was released. First thing i did was of course wget && tar xzvf && make && su -c ‘make install’ ;-) but… I’d rather have a version from the repository, to update it easily. As no package for Fedora 11 [...]

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