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.
KDE vs. GTK
I have decided to try running KDE for a while again, after maybe more than a year since I’ve ran it as primary desktop last time. I was usually switching back and forth between GNOME and Xfce, prefering GTK apps over anything else. However, I am lately getting convinced that KDE is indeed superior regarding […]
gnu radio?
don’t ask…
Ubuntu looking like OS X
I’ve always liked the look of OSX, so I followed this tutorial and made my own on Ubuntu.
Noob again: my first steps in plan 9
Plan 9 from Bell Labs was meant to be the successor of unix. Unfortunately, it is hard to make users replace something that is good enough by something better. It is free software. Plan 9 has a really nice text editor called acme. It has been ported to unix/X11 in Plan 9 from User Space, […]
running Plan 9
It’s alive!
Dual Screen Fluxbox.. Black as Oil
Well, here’s my dual head setup. Yes.. I’m using a Commodore Amiga Series monitor for my second monitor which is on the left and I have a black DELL CRT for my right monitor. On the larger monitor, I have gDesklets with it’s launcher desklet. I also have IceWeasel and NCMPC (MPD client) on a […]
splitting large files or directories into small tar files
Every once in a while there comes a situation where a file is too big for a CD, or you want to store a file larger than 2GB on a FAT partition, or you want to make a backup of data with UNIX-style permissions (almost a 100% necessity if backing up a $HOME folder with […]
E17 just keeps getting better
Last weekend I got the newest E17 available via Ebuntu to try it out, and I can say it has made quite an improvement since the last time tried it. Some of the things I was missing are there now, like the taskbar, and other things are just easily configurable to fit my needs. I […]