I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
I’ve came across an excellent shell scripting resource – SHELLdorado. It has everything one could evern need for shell programming: tips and treaks, articles, links to tutorials and references, and loads of ready made scripts to do loads of specific tasks.
There is a view of all scripts with a short description sorted by category if you just want the cream.
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Somehow I managed not to mention CYLUG – CYprus Linux User Group here for some time. Correction the situation…
CYLUG, like many other Linux User Groups (LUGs), is about helping people to find answers to their Linux-related questions. CYLUG does have a website, an active mailing list, a set of projects, and even hold meetings, though a bit rarely.
Mailing list is a rather low traffic one, but offers some fast responses. Few real Linux guru that I know are subscribed to the list and generously offer their help. There is even a choice of languages that you can aks you question in – Greek or English. English provides with a wider audience, but Greek is still the only option for a number of people seeking help.
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You most probably have already read it without me linking to it, but just in case and so that you don’t say later that I didn’t give you the link – “The Tao of Programming“
Thus spake the Master Programmer:
“Though a program is but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.”
This site has an excellent collection of bookmarklets that help one overcome annoyances of some sites. This are simple and convenient tools that you can use when you get to one of those ugly sites. For example, you can quickly switch to black text over white background, disable marquee or blinking text, or make the textarea larger. You can even see passwords that are typed into password field as clear text.
All of these bookmarklets are advertised to work in both Netscape 7 and Mozilla. Most of them also work in MS Internet Explorer and Opera. Some even are applicable to Netscape 4. They are easy to save and use – simply drag and drop them to your bookmarks folder and then click while watching an annoying website.
Recently, I’ve got few electricity related things at my house go boom-boom, so I wasn’t very much surprised when the sound card stopped working in the machine I use to watch DVDs. With TV dying in the next few days I safely assumed that sucker burned my sound too. So, I’ve called up my brother who saved me with a spare card.
After I plugged thew new card in, I found out that it doesn’t work too. I’ve checked all the wires and stuff and was puzzled by the fact that software seemed to be playing sounds OK, it’s just I couldn’t hear them.
It turns out that that computer has another sound card built-in into the motherboard. And after a reboot that I didn’t noticed it suddenly started to use that card. Simply by sticking the wire into another soundcard all the movie gunshots came back.
Note to myself: don’t assume too much. :)