You often hear the phrase “the swiss knife of …”. Well, for networking, OpenSSH clearly deserves that title in my opinion. Besides the obvious feature of providing secure logins with different options for mutual authentication, it can also be used to transfer files. It is also a core component of software like git, which depend [...]
When you start using a small and slow laptop over an unreliable GPRS connection (say while travelling in an ICE at 300km/h) you start noticing certain things that are missing from your current shell-setup. One of these problems manifests itself when you want to send the mail you just typed in mutt. Fortunately there is [...]
When using X on my Acer Aspire One (110L) and playing videos with mplayer, X would occasionally blank the screen after a few minutes without any way out but to suspend/resume to get your X back. This didn’t only happen with mplayer, and it didn’t have anything to do with xscreensaver.Anyway, after some digging I [...]
I just found this wallpaper I seem to have made in ‘06 (around August) and posted to the Gentoo Forums. It never went anywhere, but it would be a shame to let it go to waste, so here you go. Don’t ask for any higher resolutions though ;)
Download it in 800×600, 1024×768 or 1280×1024.
My weblog is littered with widespread tips about configuration for common shell tools and I post the occasional screenshot to flickr just to show off. I often get mails/comments regarding the used colorschemes and configs, so I thought it would be a good idea to create a separate page for these configs (and to keep [...]
I’m sure I could come up with 5 of these every day if I read the whole user-manual religilously and followed dozens of blogs, but I don’t, so here goes:
mutt supports threading (duh!) through
set sort=”threads”
set strict_threads=”yes”
But you want threads which have new mails appear at the top/bottom (whichever way you work):
set sort_browser=”reverse-date”
set sort_aux=”last-date-received”
Voila! Additionally it [...]
This comes from the I-have-to-pay-my-electrical-bill and from the learn-something-fun-about-your-system-everyday-department. As you know I’ve got Gentoo on my workstation. When I still lived in my dorm it was running 24/7 (last but not least to supply everyone with the latest episodes of popular shows). When I moved I started using a hacked-together suspend-to-ram script which worked [...]
Got this one from the git-ml (which I read via gmane, but that’s a different post):
I’m not very good at reviewing patches. Especially not if it’s something like JavaScript. git at least colorizes its diffs, which makes it somewhat better. But as soon as you have a big file which is being patched in multiple, [...]
OK, I can already hear you saying “here we go again”. Well, I’m sorry that I’m not really in the mood to report much on my personal life (though, rest assured, everything is really going smooth, so don’t worry). Maybe this blog will undergo certain changes in the near future, but right now I’m not [...]
Up until right now I’ve been using xterm. While it’s not the best of terms it does support 256 colors out of the box (and I don’t use fancy stuff like transparency/translucency). What it has been lacking however, and which Flo pointed out, was the support to make URLs clickable. This is an important feature, [...]
