TB notes
This is the site where I, Tyler Bletsch, write stuff that I want to refer to later. You can refer to it, as well, I guess. Unless it's in the Secret Stage.
Articles
Computer crap
Code: Python, Perl, C, HTML/CSS/JS, PHP
- Hacking the B&N Nook Color
Linux crap
- Video encoding recipes with mencoder and ffmpeg
- Using VPNC and Stunnel (secret stage)
Windows crap
Old crap I'll never look at again
RXVT - A decent Windows shellMinTTY is better- Installing SABnzbd+ and Deluge on Ubuntu 9.04 (Deprecated)
- Installing Torrentflux-b4rt on Ubuntu 9.04 (Deprecated)
Misc info
You want a good Italian place in Bostom? LoConte's on Salem St. in the North End.
ubuntu: have firefox use thunderbird for mail: goto about:config, new string key "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" → "/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird" ("/usr/bin/thunderbird" for Ubuntu 7.10)
if ubuntu's packages get busted, "dpkg –configure -a"
to auto-switch between wireless and wired connection on Windows, this thing seems to work well enough: http://www.wirelessautoswitch.com/About.aspx
Firefox and Thunderbird skin
Firefox 5 and now Thunderbird 5 like to have their menu and toolbars be the Windows titlebar color for some goddamn reason, and it looks like crap. To fix, you want the "just grey" persona – It should work for both Firefox and Thunderbird.
Makefile stuff
To write suffix-based rules in Makefiles:
.src.dest: <commands>
If the suffixes in question aren't in the set of built in ones (as given by "make -p -f /dev/null | grep SUFFIXES"), you can add them with rules of the form:
.SUFFIXES : .a .b
Using awk
Basic syntax:
awk <search pattern> {<program actions>}
Examples:
svn st | awk '/^\?/ {print $2}' # print names of unknown svn files
ps -A | awk '{print $1}' # print all pids
Have explorer open to "My Computer" instead of dumb crap
Service management in Debian/Ubuntu
update-rc.d sucks. Use rcconf instead:
$ sudo apt-get install rcconf $ sudo rcconf
Show 'Sender' in Thunderbird
In certain environments (including MS Exchange), when a message is forwarded, the special "Sender" field indicates the actual person who clicked "send", while the "From" field shows the originator of the message. This is confusing in Thunderbird, which doesn't show "Sender" by default, so forwarded email looks like it came from the originator of the message. To show the "Sender", set the following custom settings:
mailnews.customHeaders = Sender mailnews.headers.extraExpandedHeaders = Sender
'clear' for cygwin
There's probably a package that provides this, but I just use:
echo -ne '\e[H\e[2J'
Links
simple, small, effective FAT/NTFS file recovery: "Restoration" - http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
