Monthly Archives: July 2007

Not too infrequently, I have the need to generate random strings on the command line, mostly for password creation. Usually, I go to a password generation site. However, this is slow, requires I have an internet connection at the time, … Continue reading →

split is a super handy command to use in VIM (and vi, for those so inclined). It allows you to open a second (and third, and fourth, as many as you can fit!) window in your vim instance. These windows … Continue reading →

While trying to setup Subversion, I needed to add myself to the subversion group. What I ran was “sudo usermod -G subversion sam”. That was bad. Not, oh there is no more milk kind of bad. Bad like you just … Continue reading →