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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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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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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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30 |
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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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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6,528 |
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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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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7,299 |
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 |