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Monthly Archives: October 2005
HwB: The Hardware Book
25-Oct-05Stupid sed tricks
17-Oct-05I just learned that you can use any character, not just the slash (/), for a delimitter when substituting with sed. Most unique characters should work. This is especially useful when editing streams of file paths. Here’s an example that modifies the path in a playlist: cat list.m3u | sed ‘s+/home/aolsen/+~/+’ The +’s worked well [...]
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saw one of these flying through a pasture on the way home from the store this morning. His long tail and erratic flight made for a very pretty show before he lit on the fence. The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) is a long-tailed insect-eating bird closely related to [...]
Ruby on Rails Resources
07-Oct-05I’ve spent a few weeks now looking at the Ruby on Rails open-source web framework. Ruby in itself has existed for about 10 years. It is an intuitive language that is pretty easy to learn. It’s often possible to guess at how something new should work and be right. Ruby on Rails is a web [...]
This should work on other similar systems. su or login as root first. # wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5b1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz # cd /usr/lib # tar xzvf ~/firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz # mv firefox firefox-1.5b1 # which firefox /usr/bin/firefox # cd /usr/bin/ # mv firefox old.firefox # ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-1.5b1/firefox . That should do it, and shouldn’t affect any of your launchers or [...]