Here is shell a trick that I used lately.
Before moving to new system (where I enforce quotas on all home folders), I had portable home directories for all the users on my shared server storage. The old setup did not strictly apply the quota limits on all users. Some of the users had large home [...]
I have started using Git over Subversion. Following is the list of my git configurations.
Tags:Git
Coming from Linux background, while working on OS X shell, I still cannot abandon my old Linux habits. A common one is trying to use wget instead of curl for downloading stuff.
Just out just curiosity, I was wondering why OS X supports curl, but no wget in the OS.
I came across this interesting page doing [...]
Tags:comparison·curl·wget
I work with Ruby on Leopard and and I need RMagick.
If you are a programmer and don’t know what RMagick is, you should know how code can melt your picture into art in Ruby:).
Tags:ImageMagick·Leopard·RMagick
For the last half an hour I have been playing with Git. Project I’m working on my laptop is version tracked by git. However what is the fun of using version control without a remote server.
As soon as I pushed my project directory to my remote OS X Tiger server, I got the following error.
[...]
Although it is one of the first chapters one read when starting with Linux/Unix, it is always confusing where should we put what when it comes to installing stuff on Linux/OS X computers.
I found a detailed reference Filesystem Hierarchy standard website.
It is also worth knowing, why is it important to store any new customized apps [...]
Tags:File System Hierarchy·OS X·Unix
After watching Linus Torvalds speaking for Git, and the popularity of Github, I am giving git a try. I have been using Subversion for a while, so things moved pretty smoothly.
If you are like me, who starts starts iTunes with default library and realize you have heard the same song 8 times in the last week, here are two one-line-Jukebox scripts for you. The scripts randomly choose and play songs right from the command line.
Before using the script make sure you have an mp3 [...]
