I like customizability with my computer interface. The more I can automate certain tasks – like where I put my downloads so I can get back to them […]
linux / programming
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HOWTO Get Custom Icons With Each New XTerm Terminal Window
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 […]
linux / programming
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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 […]
bash / linux
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Getting An Auto-Login Window on Public WiFi in Linux
I often end up connecting to public wifi networks that have a "click to accept" in order to get real network connectivity. It’s fine on my Android and […]
ebooks / programming
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Word to HTML and Smartening Quotes for eBooks using SED and HTMLTidy
I had a bunch of separate DOC files with underlines to convert to italics and some smart quotes in the text and some straight quotes. I wanted a […]