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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
| So then statically compile all you need, bring it along on a USB stick and store it in a local bin directory, or is that not allowed? What specifically are you not used to? |
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pkal |
GNU/Linux
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22-08-2021, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
| I don't get what the issue is, why not just work in the default terminal? |
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pkal |
GNU/Linux
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3,411 |
19-08-2021, 07:13 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (07-08-2021, 06:04 PM)seninha Wrote: (07-08-2021, 11:53 AM)zge Wrote: I just finished cleaning up a IRC library I wrote for (GNU) AWK a few years ago, and published it here: https://git.sr.ht/~pka... |
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pkal |
Programming On Unix
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228,209 |
19-08-2021, 07:11 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I just finished cleaning up a IRC library I wrote for (GNU) AWK a few years ago, and published it here: https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/irc.awk
Would be interested in seeing what others here think of it. |
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pkal |
Programming On Unix
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404 |
228,209 |
07-08-2021, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #2: The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #2: The UNIX-HATERS Ha...
| (09-02-2021, 12:14 PM)vain Wrote: (how … how is that fun?)
I guess this is the sort of thing you either get or don't. But in the case of UHH, I think it's safe to say that they are complaining becau... |
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pkal |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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10-02-2021, 02:39 PM |
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Thread: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
Post: RE: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
| I kind of have one, at my university (as jkl mentioned), but sadly I appear to be the only one who uses it as a tilde, and not just cloud storage.
But I too have my own VPS, and as far as I know, I g... |
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pkal |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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5,755 |
24-11-2020, 07:30 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (20-11-2020, 10:33 AM)s0kx Wrote: I guess it's time for a new screenshot from me as well. Please enjoy:
[Image: https://envs.sh/01.png]
What's that link? |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,726 |
1,288,609 |
20-11-2020, 06:06 PM |
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Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
| (13-11-2020, 05:36 PM)phillbush Wrote: You could use cat -v, but that's considered harmful
This line confused me, how did that help? |
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pkal |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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173 |
112,961 |
15-11-2020, 05:58 PM |
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Thread: You worst moment on a Unix system
Post: RE: You worst moment on a Unix system
| (13-11-2020, 05:31 PM)vain Wrote: Was that a figure of speech or did you really start this young?
No, I started browsing the web somewhere between 2001 and 2003, and I distinctly remember gathering ... |
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pkal |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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13,468 |
13-11-2020, 05:43 PM |
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Thread: You worst moment on a Unix system
Post: RE: You worst moment on a Unix system
| I think it's pretty obviously when I dd'd an ISO over my old Window partition, and lost my bookmark collection I had started when I was 4 years old. |
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pkal |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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22 |
13,468 |
13-11-2020, 03:24 PM |
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Thread: File extensions
Post: RE: File extensions
| The problem is that the Unix filesystem doesn't embed file-types (or miscellaneous file attributes), creating the need for stuff like magic bytes or file extentions. I'd imagine it would be better if ... |
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pkal |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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5,337 |
12-11-2020, 04:36 PM |
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Thread: A simple licensing question.
Post: RE: A simple licensing question.
| (28-10-2020, 08:32 AM)stratex Wrote: In many countries you can't give away something to public domain while you are still alive, and even if you could, there are ways to restore your ownership/copyr... |
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pkal |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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19,299 |
28-10-2020, 06:35 PM |
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Thread: Logos and Artworks in the Unix World
Post: RE: Logos and Artworks in the Unix World
| (27-10-2020, 02:49 PM)phillbush Wrote: I'm still looking for a high-res version of this poster for me to print.
There was a Thread on Reddit a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments... |
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pkal |
Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software
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22,274 |
27-10-2020, 08:02 PM |
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Thread: Unix memes
Post: RE: Unix memes
| (21-10-2020, 09:53 AM)venam Wrote: [Image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek2RrfaXYAE_...name=small]
There are plently of people who ventured further and found vi, ed, acme and sam. Some even Emacs! |
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pkal |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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18,629 |
21-10-2020, 11:10 AM |
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Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt
| (08-10-2020, 07:13 PM)prologic Wrote: (08-10-2020, 07:01 PM)jkl Wrote: (08-10-2020, 06:11 PM)prologic Wrote: it should not be limited to just "Hackers"
See, here's the interesting issue:
Why not... |
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pkal |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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21,951 |
16-10-2020, 12:27 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (01-10-2020, 05:56 PM)nuaNce Wrote: Padding is nice.
[image](http://0x0.st/iUF_.png)
I wonder, do you actually use this in your day-to-day life? I tried playing with 4+ pixel margins on terminals a... |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,726 |
1,288,609 |
07-10-2020, 06:11 PM |
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Thread: Emulating/Looking-like a WM Webpage
Post: RE: Emulating/Looking-like a WM Webpage
| (06-07-2020, 06:29 AM)z3bra Wrote: There is also https://poolside.fm which has a boot sequence, and serves some pretty cool playlists !
Though if you're only opening it for the playlists, it might j... |
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pkal |
The WWW
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21,661 |
07-10-2020, 06:08 PM |
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Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol
| (05-08-2020, 02:29 PM)bouncepaw Wrote: No images.
That's a pity, non-inline images can be quite useful, even if they aren't automatically loaded. The limitation was added for TUI/CLI people... |
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pkal |
The WWW
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9,618 |
07-08-2020, 08:52 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (31-07-2020, 07:42 PM)opFez Wrote: Actually, I set up Emacs with evil today and found https://github.com/mtreca/emacs-theme-sorcery. It's pretty great.
The best dark Theme in my experience is the RG... |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,726 |
1,288,609 |
01-08-2020, 06:46 AM |
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Thread: Hobbies
Post: RE: Hobbies
| (30-07-2020, 07:00 PM)twee Wrote: I've also been trying to get into Go. I'm still at the stage where I lose every match in embarassing ways though.
I can relate to that. Are you on online-go.com/sim... |
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pkal |
Off topic
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17,417 |
31-07-2020, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: Hobbies
Post: RE: Hobbies
| I like going on bike tours, reading on my Ebook, and did a lot of Bowling before Corona with a few friends of mine. Recently I've been getting into Go (the board game), but I'm still a beginner.
And ... |
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pkal |
Off topic
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17,417 |
30-07-2020, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: Hi everyone o/
Post: RE: Hi everyone o/
| (14-07-2020, 07:28 PM)ConalKeller Wrote: Hello everyone!
I find it unnecessary to create a new topic just to introduce myself so I take advantage of this one to say Hello! :D
There's nothing wrong ... |
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pkal |
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16-07-2020, 07:25 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (21-06-2020, 12:21 PM)phillbush Wrote: (18-06-2020, 04:15 PM)zge Wrote: On the topic of shells, does anyone know how to get ksh's "horizontal line scrolling" feature in bash? That's really the onl... |
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pkal |
BSD
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56,776 |
08-07-2020, 08:16 AM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
| (03-07-2020, 07:13 PM)ckester Wrote: What GitHub alternatives, if any, do you guys recommend (and could they use some money)?
Well one popular alternative is sourcehut (at least in our circles), and... |
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pkal |
Off topic
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14,267 |
04-07-2020, 08:20 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| On the topic of shells, does anyone know how to get ksh's "horizontal line scrolling" feature in bash? That's really the only thing (except maybe for the cleanness of ksh) that I notice and prefer ove... |
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pkal |
BSD
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56,776 |
18-06-2020, 04:15 PM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
| (09-06-2020, 09:55 AM)jkl Wrote: When it comes to Emacs development, the FSF is a problem, not the solution. There are reasons why many people have stopped trying to contribute to GNU Emacs. The cop... |
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pkal |
Off topic
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14,267 |
15-06-2020, 04:54 AM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
| Sending it to hardware manufacturers to get out of their bondage with Microsoft could be a good idea. More free software drivers and less spyware would make purchasing new hardware easer (and hopefull... |
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pkal |
Off topic
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14,267 |
09-06-2020, 09:44 AM |
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Thread: display managers
Post: RE: display managers
| Usually the preinstalled DM (for me lightdm), but if I configure a system from scratch I just pick xdm. |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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5,808 |
05-06-2020, 06:19 PM |
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Thread: Workflow Compilation 2020 [finished]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation 2020 [ongoing]
| Here's my submission: https://diode.zone/videos/watch/f8b1f5ec...ef2b9f8ceb -- representing the Emacs Gang!
A new notes:
- For some reason the recording was sped-up, so it seems like I'm a fast, even... |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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35,570 |
22-05-2020, 06:30 AM |
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Thread: GUI pipes
Post: RE: GUI pipes
| (20-01-2020, 10:34 AM)jkl Wrote: Basically, that's how Plan 9 works: Piping into GUIs by exposing GUI elements as filesystems.
Are you sure? I've played around with Plan 9 a few times, but didn't se... |
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pkal |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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13,138 |
24-01-2020, 05:43 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| (27-12-2019, 12:07 PM)gmk Wrote: (05-11-2015, 05:22 PM)October Wrote: screenshot: emacs
Is this really possible/Has someone done this? (I'm a vim guy so sorry for my ignorance)
Sure, why not. Ther... |
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pkal |
BSD
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68,321 |
30-12-2019, 06:00 PM |
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Thread: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
Post: RE: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
| (12-09-2019, 07:28 PM)z3bra Wrote: I like the idea! and you're certainly not the first one to think about it. The best example I can find is the linux kernel itself that can be tweaked dynamically f... |
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pkal |
Programming On Unix
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13-09-2019, 05:38 AM |
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Thread: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
Post: RE: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
| (11-09-2019, 10:53 PM)budRich Wrote: Good luck sorting out the dotfiles standards on linux. Many projects doesn't even respect XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
Oh, I'm not even trying, but on that note, I was shown... |
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pkal |
Programming On Unix
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12-09-2019, 03:54 AM |
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Thread: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
Post: Using Directories as Configuration Fomats
| I've recently wrote about the subject here, but I wanted to ask this community specifically if there were any thoughts about this. To recap, I think there's a value in using the directory hierarchy as... |
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pkal |
Programming On Unix
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11-09-2019, 01:19 PM |
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Thread: What software have you made to improve your workflow or rice?
Post: RE: What software have you made to improve your wo...
| Thanks, but shouldn't the regex be have a ^ and a $? If I'm not mistaken, your bloking anyone who has "jkl" as a substring.
^^ Also, not sure how clever it is to use googleapis... |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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16,030 |
11-09-2019, 07:05 AM |
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Thread: What software have you made to improve your workflow or rice?
Post: RE: What software have you made to improve your wo...
| Usually I fix my workflow with Elisp, which works well, but when I need something to work system wide I tend to fall back onto C or shell scripts. The most recent example is probably mkskel, that I us... |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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16,030 |
27-08-2019, 06:46 AM |
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Thread: Hey Nixers, what do you do when you are stuck on a programming/tech problem?
Post: RE: Hey Nixers, what do you do when you are stuck ...
| If you've been working on it for more than a week, then you've probably already taken a break. Usually that helps, but otherwise I like 1. trying to explain the issue (both the problem I'm solving as ... |
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pkal |
Off topic
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7,136 |
29-07-2019, 12:31 PM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| (22-07-2019, 06:00 PM)jkl Wrote: The one big feature missing in Markdown is a way to add CSS classes to specific paragraphs though. Still blogging in HTML. I wonder what will replace it one day.
Wha... |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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111,346 |
23-07-2019, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: Really Weird Shell - the structural regular expression shell
Post: RE: Really Weird Shell - the structural regular ex...
| (12-05-2019, 11:32 AM)z3bra Wrote: I disagree with that. The shell's job is to handle IPC, and that's it. Text processing is done by the processes themselves, the shell only connects outputs to the ... |
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pkal |
Programming On Unix
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18-05-2019, 01:12 PM |
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Thread: To reboot or not to reboot
Post: RE: To reboot or not to reboot
| (18-04-2019, 09:14 AM)z3bra Wrote: I shutdown my dekstop everyday to save polar bears, and turn it back on in the morning when I use it.
Now I'm not an expert when it comes to energy usage, but if y... |
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pkal |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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10,125 |
18-04-2019, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: To reboot or not to reboot
Post: RE: To reboot or not to reboot
| I usually don't ever reboot my machines, except if I accidentality hit the power button, and it turns of. |
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pkal |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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10,125 |
18-04-2019, 04:42 AM |
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Thread: Network Managers
Post: RE: Network Managers
| I used to be a fan of wpa_supplicant, when I used void, but since switching back to Debian, NetworkManager has been quite sufficient. If I had a proper desktop computer, I might reconsider my choices,... |
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pkal |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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8,434 |
17-04-2019, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Simple encryption software
Post: RE: Simple encryption software
| (05-04-2019, 09:00 AM)z3bra Wrote: but I want to drop usage of asymmetric keys and use only a master password instead (ie. symmetric encryption), so all I need to do to unlock my password store is a... |
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pkal |
Security & Cryptography
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12-04-2019, 12:19 PM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| (05-04-2019, 02:24 PM)z3bra Wrote: Maybe but I run a linux machine, not an emacs one ;)
Whoever doesn't use Emacs, is doomed to reinvent it ;^) |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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111,346 |
12-04-2019, 02:08 AM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| (16-03-2019, 06:22 PM)grah Wrote: My latest workflow improvement is a simple one and is probably something that everyone is already aware of: using Ctrl-Backspace or Ctrl-Del to delete a whole word ... |
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pkal |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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163 |
111,346 |
01-04-2019, 09:55 AM |