Use Xterm? Want to have custom icons for each instance like this? Here’s how you do it: 1. Alias xterm to xterm -e “xicons.sh;bash” Save the script below […]
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Run Different Programs On Connecting and Disconnecting From Networks with Both WICD and Network-Manager in Linux
So I wrote a program again. 🙂 It is (unimaginatively) named networkcontrol-wicd-networkmanager, but I affectionately call it “Bob”. It’s what I use so that I have the right […]
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Traffic Control With Wondershaper While Still Letting Your LAN Speeds Stay Super Fast
Wondershaper is pretty nice and easy traffic shaping tool for linux. It’s been around for a while (and has its critics), but I find it to be a […]
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How to Make Sure You Can Access Your Writing Forever
I learned the most important lesson of file formats from WordPerfect 5.1. I wrote some of my earliest stories using that software, the blue screen and drop down […]
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Geeky things: X-Clipboard synchronization, file/mime types, and commandline uploading
Geeky things I learned recently: You can send standard output to multiple processes at the same time using tee: echo “blah” | tee >(xclip -i -s primary) >(xclip […]