Being a long time GNU Screen fanatic, I thoroughly enjoyed Gerhard Siegesmund’s post entitled Scripting screen for fun and profit.
December 27, 2006
December 25, 2006
Mmmmm, Coke!
I used to love “steak and a coke”. These days I’m much more boring… I’m trying to eat less meat and I try to never drink soda/pop/coke. So I wish to pass this on to all my younger siblings by marriage: Don’t Drink Coke! At least, not too often.
Why not? Because of all the crazy stuff it does to your body.
Thanks to Chuck for the link.
December 19, 2006
Run Y After X
A recent Slashdot post on good UNIX habits reminded me of something I really want as far as shell job control: the ability to run a command after another completes.
“Wait a second dude,” you say, “just use a semicolon!”
$ wget http://example.com/bigfile.zip ; mail -s 'done downloading' adamm
…and I wholeheartedly agree. But what if you started that ‘wget’ before you thought to notify yourself when the download completed?
December 17, 2006
December 16, 2006
December 15, 2006
Left Behind Games Says: Convert or Die!
Yep, that “convert or die” game is real, and folks want it off the shelves. Just between you and me, my money’s on the entire thing being a publicity stunt ala Snakes on a Plane or Borat or …uh, lots of other things.
I’m glad I could do my little part in this viral marketing campaign.
December 4, 2006
Search by “Name That Tune”
Computers certainly do a lot of searching. Some search engines can even find you a tune if you only know the melody. What would be really cool is if it could parse a recording of me whistling.
I got thinking about this after watching a video of a dude playing this song while rollerblading down a city street sent to me by Chuck.