GNU/Linux / Command line – WhyNotWiki

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< GNU/Linux This is about how to work efficiently on the command line in GNU/Linux (and probably other POSIX OS’s, although I haven’t tested that theory). Contents 1 Reference links / Cheat sheets / Tutorials 2 Important key combinations to know 3 Wildcards and globbing 4 Readlines / ~/.inputrc / stty 5 Troubleshooting 5.1 sudo: …

View source – WhyNotWiki

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View source – WhyNotWiki

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Page Discussion View source History You do not have permission to edit pages, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group trusted. You can view and copy the source of this page: ”This is for stuff pertaining to Bash, but probably a lot of it pertains to …

Welcome – WhyNotWiki

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“ To organize the world’s information and make it more useful to people who want to use it ” (Suspiciously similar to Google’s mission statement, I know… but I think I (we) can do a much better job of organizing information (although on a much smaller scale) than Google can.) To spread the truth, and …

Wine – WhyNotWiki

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Out of the box, these were the default locations of “My Music”, etc.: I didn’t like that, however, because that means applications may clutter up my home directory. Already, iTunes had created /home/tyler/iTunes for its own use. I wanted it to use /home/tyler/iTunes instead, though, so I did: By going to winecfg / Desktop integration, …

Tyler / Research interests – WhyNotWiki

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< Tyler Tyler / Research interests  edit   (Category  edit) [–] Category:Tyler / Research interests Tyler / Research interests Aliases: Tyler / Things I’d like to research, Tyler / Things I’d like to learn about, Tyler / Things I’d like to study I like ideas. I’m like an idea sponge. I also like words. I could easily …

System administration – WhyNotWiki

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Keep your configuration files in a revision control repository! [Subversion (category)] Tracking, auditing and managing your server configuration with Subversion in 10 minutes (http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/03/14/tracking-auditing-and-managing-your-server-configuration-with-subversion-in-10-minutes/). Retrieved on 2007-05-11 11:18. [rudd-o@amauta2 ~]# svn checkout file:///var/preserve/config/trunk/ /etc [rudd-o@amauta2 /etc]# svn add * Tools http://www.cfengine.org/ Cfengine – an adaptive system configuration management engine freshmeat.net: Project details for Nwu (http://freshmeat.net/projects/nwu/?branch_id=63516&release_id=222700). …

Problems – WhyNotWiki

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Popularity perpetuation  edit   (Category  edit) Aliases: What’s popular becomes even more popular, Self-perpetuation of popularity, Popularity perpetuation tendency, The amplification of popularity, Popularity polarization, Popularity permanency, Popularity establishment, Popularity amplification loop See also: Deviancy amplification spiral, He who comes first wins This is a big, unfortunate, difficult problem, in my opinion. (Not strictly popularity; also includes …

My computer – WhyNotWiki

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My computer  edit   (Category  edit) . Article Metadata: F:\My computer Software 2007-11-18: Resized my Windows partition (C:) When I installed Windows, I had made the mistake of installing Windows to a partition with only 4 GB. I figured that would be plenty for Windows (I had a separate 20 GB partition for Programs and a 150 …

Make – WhyNotWiki

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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=44;filename=rules.diff;att=1;bug=402104 +ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),amd64) + CFLAGS = -m32 + ifneq ($(shell test -e /usr/lib32/libSDL.so && echo ok),ok) + MAKE_LINKS = mkdir -p lib \ + && ln -sf /usr/lib32/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.0 lib/libSDL.so \ + && ln -sf /usr/lib32/libpng12.so.0.15.0 lib/libpng.so + LDFLAGS = -L../lib + endif +else + CONFIGURE_LIBAO = –enable-libao +endif