The second most popular web browser in the world, Firefox, is a beautiful, but heavy machine. Its biggest attraction are tabs, flexible bookmarks and RSS management, and extensions. However for people who are still using systems with no abundance of main memory it can be a pain intensively using Firefox throughout a day or longer. […]
Archives for March 2007
Curly Braces are Damn Useful Things
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In the bash shell curly braces { and } are surprisingly useful things to reduce typing. With the mkdir command they help you create trees of directories in one command. For instance: mkdir -p foo/{bar,baz,goo/loo/imp}/buildmkdir -p foo/{bar,baz,goo/loo/imp}/build will create the following directory structure: foo/bar/build foo/baz/build foo/goo/loo/imp/buildfoo/bar/build foo/baz/build foo/goo/loo/imp/build The curly braces can also be used […]
drawing fake brush strokes in inkscape (visual tutorial)
Here‘s a quick explanation of how to do one of my inkscape tricks. Especially nice for beginners.