I write about Linux, Debian, Windows, general geeky stuff, making things and just about everything.
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bash-ido mimics what ido-mode does in emacs.
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Lego Brick Separator
We got some Lego for my son the other day and it came with a Lego Brick Seprarator which has to be the best invention since Lego itself. It makes short work of stubborn bricks that are stuck together. As a…
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.bash_profile vs .bashrc in OS X Terminal.app
.bash_profile vs .bashrc or why does OS X ignore my .bashrc in Terminal.app?
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Keyboard shortcut to un-minimise a window in OS X
It’s a bit fiddly but it can be done. Cmd+m to the item you want to un-minimise, then while still holding cmd, press Option. Release Cmd and then finally release Option.
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Cmd+m to Minimise a window in OS X
Cmd+m to minimise a window in OS X
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Insert a new heading after numbered list in org-mode
In org-mode in emacs, M-<RET> will add either a new heading or if your insertion point is between a list item and a heading, it will add a new list item. This is not always desirable. To add a new…
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Collaborative online $\LaTeX$ documents
writelatex.com is awesome. Edit your $LaTeX$ document and see the changes almost immediately.
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Collaborative online $\LaTeX$ documents
writelatex.com is awesome. Edit your $LaTeX$ document and see the changes almost immediately.
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Collaborative online $\LaTeX$ documents
writelatex.com is awesome. Edit your $LaTeX$ document and see the changes almost immediately.
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Collectd causing rrd illegal attempt to update using time errors
I found collectd causing rrd illegal attempt to update using time errors. I was seeing a whole load of lines like this in my syslog: Aug 20 16:27:12 mythbox collectd[32167]: rrdtool plugin: rrd_update_r (/var/lib/collectd/rrd/mythbox/df-root/df_complex-free.rrd) failed: /var/lib/collectd/rrd/mythbox/df-root/df_complex-free.rrd: illegal attempt to update…
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