Arch Linux

# start a "clean" version of zsh (without your startup files)

That's my lateral .conkyrc

Instructions:
1. Copy the conkyrc file in your home folder and rename it to .conkyrc
2. Copy the ip.sh file in the .scripts folder inside your home folder.

Then you can change system information, font, font color, disks' name and path and so on...
Temperatures are the hardest part: you've got to have lm-sensors installed, hddtemp installed and running as a daemon and maybe to change some characters in the .conkyrc file.

My .conkyrc is just a modification of CONKY-colors by helmuthdu: [link]
Also the ip.sh script comes from there.

Enjoy! Comments much appreciated!

A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools
dstat & sar
slurm
vim & emacs
screen, dtach, tmux, byobu
multitail
tpp
xargs & parallel
duplicity & rsyncrypto
nethack & slash'em
lftp
ack
calcurse & remind + wyrd
newsbeuter & rsstail
powertop
htop & iotop
ttyrec & ipbt
rsync
mtr
socat & netpipes
iftop & iptraf
siege & tsung
ledger
taskwarrior
curl
rtorrent & aria2
ttytter & earthquake
vifm & ranger
cowsay & sl

ddar is a free de-duplicating archiver for Unix. Save space, bandwidth and time by storing duplicate regions of data only once. Use ddar to:

Back up local data to a remote server, each time saving space, upload bandwidth and time by only transferring data not already present on the remote server. This is what cloud backup services like Tarsnap allow you to do already. Now you can use your own storage and internal bandwidth to achieve the same thing.

Back up remote data to a local disk, downloading and storing only changed data each time (the inverse of the above).

Back up local data to a local external disk, each time saving time and space by only writing data that was not present on the disk already. I have six gzipped tarballs of around 50 GiB each of my laptop stored on my external disk, but all together they are only using 64 GiB of storage.

Efficiently store any data that has redundancy. ddar will exploit redundancy across different files stored at any time.

Synergy is Free and Open Source Software that lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has it's own display. No special hardware is required, all you need is a local area network. Synergy is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Issues: Latest fixed
FAQs: User, Developer
News/updates: Blog, Twitter
Mailing lists: User, Developer
Nightly build: Console, Builders, Packages
Major features
Move your mouse easily between computers
Requires nothing other than existing ethernet
Copy and paste between your computers
No need to press any buttons (unlike KVM)
You can still use multiple monitors on the same computer
Lock the mouse to one screen

find ~ -name '* *' | while read FILE
do
echo $FILE rocks.
done

Mike Chirico

am taking a test soon and I would like to know useful commands on Linux for a programmer. Some examples are string, strace, top, free, df, mount, cat, head, tail, whoami, touch. What are others?

I am a complete novice. Those are all the commands I know along with groupadd, useradd, chmod, chown, ls, rm, mkdir and echo. That is all I know.

Introduction to using vim for Rails development

Someone recently asked us to do “vim on Rails” screencasts.

So, we’re responding with this experiment. Let us know if this is valuable and we’ll try to improve things like audio quality.

In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, uncomment this line:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
Restart Apache

sudo apachectl restart
Fix a warning appearing in phpinfo()

Create /etc/php.ini and make it writable

cd /etc
sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini
sudo chmod 666 php.ini

development environment up and running (I did a clean install). After the jump, I'll outline the steps that I took to get a functioning Apache, PHP, MySQL installed. Sure, you could use the leopard-bundled Apache and PHP, but if you're like me, you generally upgrade PHP (and use weird extensions) a lot more often than Apple will upgrade it.

Built on Rasmus' birthday. How appropriate (-:

First, a couple things should be noted: I'm still without local SSL support on Apache. I've been in touch with the maintainer of apache2 on macports (who, coincidentally, is probably familiar to many of you due to his past work on the PHP project: James Cox), but I still don't have a solution. See this bug report for info. The second thing is that my colleague/client/boss/friend (wow.. that sounds like a dangerous combination!) Marco helped me out quite a bit with the initial leopard-friendly incantations to make things build.

UPDATED: Updated to use PHP 5.3.1 and with easier instructions for fixing PHP’s iconv linking problem via Apple’s iconv.patch file.

Although Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) finally comes with current versions of open source software developers use, the default setup is not enough for our needs so we’ve compiled this easy to follow guide to setting up a PHP development environment including the following:
PHP 5.3
Apache 2.2
MySQL 5.1
As I mentioned, we needed to add a few things to the PHP install that Apple left out:
GeoIP
libjpeg
libpng
IMAP
libmcrypt
gettext

New Riders graciously indulged our principles, and published this book under the terms of the Open Publication License (with none of the options exercised). Consequently the content of the book is truly free, and you can download the html of the onlne version for reading offline, either as a zip archive (860k) or a gzipped tar archive (352k).

The full texinfo source for the book is available via anonymous cvs:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/autobook login
Password: anoncvs
$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/autobook co autobook


If you like this book, then please consider buying a bound and printed copy, so that the authors can continue to write free documentation, and to support the GNU Project (almost 10% of the total royalties from sales of the book are donated to the Free Software Foundation, who maintain the tools discussed in the book).