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Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!
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Latest Discussions
Daniel Black
September 3, 2008
Hey, sounds good already. There's another Python script for command-line 140-character-messaging (won't call it "tweeting" for obvious reasons), Tweety Py, that's currently languishing. Not, I think, because the developer's disinterested, ...
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Using new social networking service Identi.ca from the command line
Antonio Araujo
September 2, 2008
Dear friends, has anyone built debian packages of db xml 2.4.13? Best regards Antonio
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Native XML storage with Berkeley DB XML - part one
Zeth
September 1, 2008
Thanks everyone for your different solutions, absolutely fantastic. I have tried them all. The one from Ciaran McCreesh was the one I was subconsciously groping for.
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
andylockran
September 1, 2008
In ubuntu, I do ctrl, and the functions to the right of my keyboard for extra characters. Such as: alt gr + ; + e for é I'll post more ...
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
Jinks
September 1, 2008
I am from Germany but i use an US-layout keyboard since that's a lot easier for most my programming needs. Now, having to also write the occassional german letter or ...
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
Toni
September 1, 2008
Hi, You might want to add an xkb keymap. Make backups before you begin ;) And sorry about formatting. in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb, after "intl", add this: partial alphanumeric_keys xkb_symbols "intl_fi" { ...
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
Ciaran McCreesh
September 1, 2008
On a UK keyboard you do alt-gr+[ followed by a to get ä. You don't need the control key at all.
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
name
September 1, 2008
Hi!,
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List files recursively by modified time
name
September 1, 2008
Hello!,
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Leif
September 1, 2008
On my Norwegian keyboard, the diaeresis is easily accessible, like on Jani's Finnish one. It's one of the few keys that doesn't advance the cursor, along with the tilde, circumflex ...
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
Lornix
September 1, 2008
ä <= compose, ", a ö <= compose, ", o å <= compose, o, a Ä <= compose, ", A Ö <= compose, ", O Å <= compose, o, A ...
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
name
September 1, 2008
Good day!,
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Jani
September 1, 2008
Looks like typing letters with the umlaut (diaeresis) has been made particularly easy for those of us using a keyboard with Finnish keys and layout: compose isn't needed at all, ...
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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME
1 Dirk Gently says...
Nice to see some writing again! I was beginning to think you'd dun run off with that cute mid-eastern girl. ;)
I've always used tar for backup but after looking at your line, I discovered that rsync compresses too! Also I learned that rsync includes --exclude= just like tar and putting in --delete removes the destination file if has been removed from source. Who know I possibly will start using it.
Posted at 5:32 a.m. on February 17, 2008
2 Kewlmyst says...
Hmmm ... I have been rsync for a long time just to do back ups, but be aware that if you put the --delete option, and have a nice cron to do your backup, and you actually do a: rm -rf /home/kewlmyst/important_stuff/ and your little cron does it's job ... you have also lost your 'important stuff' on the backup. @dirk: the -z option compresses the network flow, but not the actual data strored on the remote location/disk.
Posted at 9:09 p.m. on June 12, 2008