Recently I found some very nice screen cast tutorials for Vim. Derek Wyatt - the guy who has recorded them - has a very humorous way to tell stories about Vim. Love it and learned much.
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In this post I will introduce some of my favorite shell aliases.
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I wrote a small python program to improve my object oriented programming knowledge.
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The media-player I use for jogging does not support the playback of the flac format.
So here just a quick note about how to convert an entire album to mp3.
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Lets say you checked out a new local branch and committed some changes. Now you want to share this new branch with other developers. You can upload the new branch easily with the following command.
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Recently I had to merge a git repository into my own fork of this repository.
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I’m using linux as my only desktop operating system for over 6 month now. The only issue I couldn’t solve until now is to get the newest iTunes running.
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Some weeks ago I wrote an article on how to compile csync. After I did some testing on it, I wanted to install Mirall, since this seemed to be the only system tray application to contol csync. Mirall is not available in the ubuntu repositorys, so I wanted to compile it from source. But I was a little amazed about the dependencies of this small application. Since I’m a Gnome 3 user I didn’t want to install the entire Qt environment to get one small system tray application. So I decided to write it by my own for the sake of getting started with python programming.
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I’m currently playing around with ownCloud. I came across this article on webupd8 about syncing ownCloud with your desktop using csync. Since this awesome tool is not available for Mint or Debian I decided to compile it myself from source.
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Hi,
did you ever want to create a dialog for your favorite commandline tool or are you tired of typing the same 2 inch command every time again?
Then zenity can make your life much easier!
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