Monthly Archives: December 2008

Improving command line efficiency via Bash history

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

If you work in Bash with any frequency, hopefully you collect aliases to make your life easier. Complicated and highly useful commands should be saved and re-used so that you can get to the information you need in the least … Continue reading →

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BlackBerry Storm: Thoughts and Tips

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I picked up a BlackBerry Storm last week and have been playing with it, cursing at it, installing on it, and configuring it since. I have come across some pretty awesome applications that I wanted to share, as well as … Continue reading →

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Merging PDFs and the lovely gnome-open

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I came across two very handy tools today: gs and gnome-open. gs (Ghostscript) is an interpreter for PDF languages. You can do lots of cool things with it, for which you can check the man page. The reason I needed … Continue reading →

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MySQL replication and flush tables with read lock gotcha

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I ran into something that stumped me for a few minutes today while trying to setup some replicated databases in MySQL. As with any replication setup, you have to lock the master tables and note the binary log position via: … Continue reading →

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Multi-OS package installation and search functions

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

Commands to search for packages and install packages are usually too little long to have to type very often. But making an alias for them can be troublesome if you work on multiple OSes. I used to just have the … Continue reading →

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