NotesWith pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password.Unfurl
NotesUse the command line to log into Dropbox. You have to replace me@yahoo.com with your Dropbox email (note the URL-encoding of "@" as %40). Also replace my_passwd with your Dropbox password. (Note: special characters in your password (such as #) must be url-encoded. You will get a cookie (stored in file "cookie") that you can use for subsequent curl operations to dropbox, for example curl -b cookie https://www.dropbox.com/home. Debug note: If you want to see what data curl posts, use curl's --trace-ascii flag.Unfurl
NotesThere are times when “kill -9″ is the only time you can kill a PID that is behaving badly. However, it’s usually not needed if you know your signals. When I encounter a badly behaving program, here is the procedure I usually take.Unfurl
NotesThis introduction to text manipulation on UNIX platforms provides an overview of some common commands widely available and installed standard on most UNIX-based releases. Many times these standard utilities are ignored in favor of more modern text-processors such as Perl, Python, or Ruby, which are not always installed on a system. An introductory review of these tools helps practitioners who are learning UNIX or Linux or those who may be looking to renew forgotten knowledge.Unfurl
NotesTaco Bell programming is one of the steps on the path to Unix Zen. This is a path that I am personally just beginning, but it's already starting to pay dividends. To really get into it, you need to throw away a lot of your ideas about how systems are designed: I made most of a SOAP server using static files and Apache's mod_rewrite. I could have done the whole thing Taco Bell style if I had only manned up and broken out sed, but I pussied out and wrote some Python.Unfurl
Notes"So you have gigs of data to transfer between two machines over ethernet. A nice quick and dirty method is to use netcat and tar. This is by no means secure, but if you haven't got the time or desire to setup NFS, FTPd, Samba. Or wait hours for scp to do its job then this can save you a lot of time. "Unfurl
Notes"ii is a minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client. It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every directory a FIFO in file and a normal out file is created."Unfurl
Notes"With the advent of RSS readers that can use so-called “local feeds” for various reasons, it was inevitable that some code monkey would convert his 250K system.log file to RSS."Unfurl
Notes"The Internet is not a truck. It’s a complex network of arcane software, expensive hardware, and maximum-security server closets disguised as ordinary cloakrooms."Unfurl
Notes"VI takes this same paradigm of pipes and filters and simply wraps it in a editor user interface in which the pipe is applied to editing buffer both as a source and as a destination."Unfurl
Notes"If you haven't been paying attention to GNU grep recently, you should be happily surprised by some of the new features and options that have come about with the 2.5 series."Unfurl
Notes"Haserl is a small cgi wrapper that enables shell scripts to be embedded into html documents. It is intended for environments where something like PHP is too big."Unfurl