Notes

(Or things I learned today)

2005.02.28 - Put /etc in revision control using svk.

2004.08.20 - In Canada, to check your long distance carrier dial 1-700-555-4141

2003.02.19 - Finally, an SVCD solution that works! This man knows his stuff.

  2002.12.30 - <scjody> "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan 
  an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, 
  balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, 
  give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation, analyze a new problem, 
  pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die 
  gallantly. Specialization is for insects." <21:23>
  <scjody>  - Robert Heinlein <21:23>

2002.12.21 - To record CBC Radio2 in OGG Vorbis:

  vsound -t -s trplayer -n -q -t 1:00 http://www.cbc.ca/radio_all/radiotwo.ram | sox -t au - -t wav - | oggenc -o test.ogg -

2002.11.29 - In BASH: for (( i=600; i > 0; i = i-1 )); do echo $i; done

2002.10.04 - If you have computers A, B, and C, and A can reach B, and B can reach C, but A can't reach C directly (most likely due to stupid firewalling), then you can do the following:

On A: ssh -L 5022:c.tld:22 user_on_b@b
On A: ssh -p 5022 user_on_c@localhost

2002.01.10 - apt-get install `apt-show-versions -u -b | fgrep unstable` found here

2001.10.22 - Deborphan output can be piped through to apt-get remove:

  deborphan | xargs apt-get remove --purge --yes

2001.05.10 - To get fetchmail and SSH happy, I had to do the following:

  poll everets.org via localhost port 1234 with proto pop3 user kevin is flynn here:
          preconnect "ssh -f -l kevin -L 1234:everets.org:110 everets.org sleep 20";

2000.11.29 - run

egrep "^[[:xdigit:]]{n}$" words

in order to get a list of words that contains nothing but hex digits and are n long.

2000.10.30 - Emacs is really nice in some ways. A simple

(global-set-key [f12] 'my-function)

will change the keyboard bindings. An "unset" may have to be done first.

2000.09.26 - in Bourne type shells, use 2>&1 to redirect stderr to stdout, and 2>&1| to pipe both to another command.

2000.09.19 - From bc man page: pi=$(echo "scale=10; 4*a(1)" | bc -l)

2000.09.10 - To disable Doubleclick ads easily, put:

 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
 127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
 127.0.0.1 ad-adex3.flycast.com
 127.0.0.1 ads20.focalink.com

or similar in your HOSTS file (under c:\windows\system or c:\windows\system32 for windows, or /etc for unix-like operating systems)

2000.09.05 - To turn off miniwindows for Windowmaker, edit the GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes file, and change the "*" entry to read:

  "*" = {Icon = defaultAppIcon.tiff;NoAppIcon=Yes;};

Note, though, that this will screw up the Dock.

2000.07.27 - To prevent timeouts on the cable modem using Linux 2.2.0, echo 420 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time

VMWare will conflict with Samba as it tries to do its own SAMBA sharing stuff. Avoid using both together.