Command Line
Sandfoxing Firefox (imho Necessary)
Of all the applications that we use the net for, the web browser is probably the most likely used so it makes sense to protect it. Firefox is really good about security but an occasionaly blip can happen and you can’t count on plug-ins that work through Firefox and can have direct access to the […]
External monitor as Discrete
I use my laptop primarly at home with an external monitor as discrete, meaning that I have the laptop monitor turned off and I only use it. At times this is also called a dedicated monitor. GNOME can be set to disable the laptop monitor and enable the external but it wasn’t able to hotplug […]
The Beauty of rsync and Backup Script
rsync is a command-line tool used to copy/clone files (“fast incremental file transfer“). It is a great, simple backup tool. The basic rsync command is this: rsync -a src dest_dir Where src is the original directory or file and dest_dir is the destination directory. Because rsync does incremental backups it only adds the file to […]
Screencasting Done Easy (Desktop Recording)
I got to test out a good number of screencasting applications and I found a good one, and as usual the easiest was the best. I started with recordMyDesktop. recordMyDesktop recordMyDesktop is a basic program that works good. The GTK version has a simple UI that sets a border around the area to be recorded. […]
cVLC as Default Video Player
I love MPlayer. I’ve been using it for years. Whenever I needed to watch a video from my camera or downloaded something from YouTube it always did great. However, I revisited recently trying to play a DVD with MPlayer after having gone through a lengthy setup process a ways back and discovered MPlayer still cannot […]
Disk and Memory Usage Scripts
At times I like to check my levels of disk and memory usage and it’s more convenient for me to do it from the command line. So, I created a couple scripts for them: devtop Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 9.8G 6.4G 2.9G 69% / /dev/sda6 166G 38G 121G 24% /home memtop […]
Convert Videos to PSP
I’m a TED video junkie. I always have videos on my PSP ready to watch. I also like to put YouTube videos on there. I did this enough that I created a script for it that makes putting videos on my PSP real easy: pspvidconv <d*> <video(s)> – Convert videos to PSP (d to use […]
Markdown to WordPress Format
When I discovered MarkDown I was in love, it was very nice to discover an easy, clean, well-thought-out markup language. I wanted a way to be able take my detailed notes, have them easy to read, and then to be able post them here on the blog that would be in a nice WordPress format. […]
Pandoc-flavored markdown: Perfect!
I’d been looking for a way to convert my notes to webpages. Typically I wrote my notes in .txt form and then went through them and added links, formatting… when I was ready to blog them. Recently, I had asked StackOverflow if I could convert MediaWiki format to HTML. I’m an Administrator for the Arch […]
makepkg Shortcuts Script
This one is not as important as the pacman related script but I find I use it often too. I maintain several packages in the AUR and it comes in handy to quickly refer to common tasks related to makepkg. The md5sum function still needs a bit of work (i.e. it requires the build function […]
pacman related tasks shortcut script
I once saw a wrapper-script for pacman in the forums that was basically a short-hand version of common pacman tasks. Over the last couple years, I’ve expanded on it. It does just about everything I need it to and its real basic. I call it pm and here are the tasks it covers: pm – […]
