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Server upgrade and code rethink

22 December 2008

I talk about the server upgrade and the code that this site runs on.

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Building the TEI documentation

12 October 2008

In this post, I check out the TEI build scripts, and compile the XML formatted documentation into HTML.

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Sisu and typing unicode in GNOME

01 September 2008

In this post I try to figure out how to type unicode characters in GNOME, in my case so I can type Finnish.

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Native XML storage with Berkeley DB XML - part one

14 August 2008

In this post I introduce native XML databases and provide installation instructions for DB XML on Windows, Gentoo and Ubuntu.

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Is GUADEC just GDEC?

07 August 2008

GUADEC is a developers conference, that is fine but don't pretend that users can come.

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Top Ten mailing list posts in the history of free/open source software

25 July 2008

My current choices for the top ten coolest posts in free software/open source mailing list. If you can think of a better one, please do paste a link in the comments.

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Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?

01 June 2008

Look up the licenses of your Firefox extenstions, you might find that some of them, such as the StumbleUpon Toolbar, are not free software/open source at all, they are proprietary software,

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Will Epiphany be able to compete with Firefox's extensions?

31 May 2008

Can the forthcoming Epiphany browser based on Webkit compete on GNOME when Firefox has so many extensions?

In this post I look through Firefox's extensions to try work out how many extensions Epiphany would really need to satisfy most GNOME users.

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Firefox is your nanny?

22 May 2008

Firefox 3 now requires extension authors to submit their extensions to Mozilla for approval or to setup SSL. Firefox 3 refuses to install an unauthorised extension.

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Epiphany and Webkit 2008

18 May 2008

In this post I compile and try out the Epiphany browser with the WebKit backend to see how the boys are getting on.

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Swap out your ssh keys

14 May 2008

This post explains how to replace your existing SSH keys with new ones. This is relevant in light of a recent Debian/Ubuntu bug in the random number generator.

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Give Linux a chance

12 May 2008

In this introductory article, I try to write accessibly about why you should try another operating system than Windows, you might even like it!

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Twitter and GNOME integration

10 April 2008

This is part two of our look at using Python with the API of the Twitter social networking website. In this post, we make twitter updates pop-up on a Linux desktop.

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Backing up my laptop

15 February 2008

To my surprise, my laptop has become my primary computer. With my old Fujitsu and my Macbook, I still made a remote connection to my desktop and worked there. However, with my Thinkpad, I have finally found a laptop that I am happy with, I think it is down to the quality of the keyboard. Working locally means I need to back the system up.

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Office Software for Linux

20 January 2008

Are you thinking about moving your computer to Linux, but worried about living without office software? Well don't be. Linux has lots of its own office software.

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OpenMoko vs iPhone - Free your phone or Fight your phone?

13 January 2008

Hello Everyone, I am rather busy at the moment so I am going to pull out some posts from my drafts folder that I never got around to publishing, so the subjects might be in a rather random order or discuss old issues but you are used to that I'm sure! Let's start with a comparison between the iPhone and the OpenMoko Neo1973-GTA02 FreeRunner.

For more on this topic, you can see my `Smart Phones and Devices`_ series.

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A year after my 2007 predictions - the score card

01 January 2008

So last year, I made six predictions for 2007. How did I do?

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How to setup an HTTP proxy with privoxy and an SSH tunnel

21 December 2007

Introduction

After the last post, John Reese wrote in with a number of suggestions. I'll deal with one in this post and later we can iterate around again as we try out his other idea.

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How to setup an HTTP proxy with privoxy

21 December 2007

Introduction

Lets say, theoretically speaking, that a person wanted to access a service that is IP restricted to their home country, but they were currently abroad.

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The Challenge: Encrypt your laptop's /home directory before Christmas

12 December 2007

The reason: people lose laptops

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Hello, my name is Zeth, I'll be your host here.

Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!

This site is your site too which means that you can contribute and get involved. You can leave comments using the facility provided. For me, the comments and discussions are by far the best part of the site. So please do have your say!

Latest Discussions

QuickSilver

January 5, 2009
Nice! Is there anyway to implement a ServerAliveInterval for long processes? This is because my our firewall keeps closing the connection based on inactive connections. Thanks,
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Tun

January 5, 2009
Hi, Do You know, haw can i get start date for tasks evolution? If exists the similar way to your example: i.get_due() ? I would like to have sth like ...
→ Three Useful Python Bindings - ClamAV, Apt and Evolution

Samuel Huckins

January 4, 2009
Great tips! I have had occasion to do a lot of MySQL instance migrations lately, so here is an improvement for Trick 1: mysqldump <DATABASE_NAME> [mysqldump_options] | gzip -c | ...
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George Glass

December 31, 2008
I don't really see the point in trying to make linux user-friendly or take over the desktop. We rule the servers the most important element of the entire game. Let ...
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bug

December 31, 2008
@Zeth: The hidden field does block some. Not perfect, but it does release some weight from the filtering system, as those are 100% false comments. Acctually, if you would have ...
→ On Comment Spam

Zeth

December 31, 2008
Hi Eion, Yes that is an interesting approach also. It is the only approach given by default in the stock Django comments module, though it does not stop all comment ...
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Bug

December 30, 2008
Well... Sadly, and I guess you hate me for it, I use captcha. But at least it's not an image, so even if you visit using w3m [yey!] you can ...
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Eion

December 30, 2008
Other than server-side processing of comments, I like to add additional <input>'s and hide them in external css. Most of the time the fields are populated by spam-bots, and if ...
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Nostoc

December 27, 2008
... Mate possible because of the dull Kg8
→ Ruy Lopez, Berlin defence, open variation

Nostoc

December 27, 2008
My bad, I meant the picture beneath 15, after close inspection my suggestion would be on 18. Instead of 18 : Qe2, I would have taken that knight with my ...
→ Ruy Lopez, Berlin defence, open variation

Zeth

December 27, 2008
Nostoc, white takes the rook on 15, the rook is a better kill than a knight.
→ Ruy Lopez, Berlin defence, open variation

Nostoc

December 26, 2008
I'm not that good at chess, but I have a question. At 15, why doesn't white simply take black's knight in C6 with the bishop? It's an easy kill, since ...
→ Ruy Lopez, Berlin defence, open variation

Zeth

December 26, 2008
CorkyAgain, good question, I don't have a FreeBSD box available at the moment so I can't comment. On Linux at least watch does as I have described.
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CorkyAgain

December 25, 2008
Is the watch command you're describing a Linuxism? On my FreeBSD box, "man watch" seems to be describing something completely different.
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Binny V A

December 25, 2008
I have actually setup a site to store just short commands... http://txt.binnyva.com/
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Bassam essa

December 25, 2008
i try this line command elinks -source "http://www.e51g.com/" > resulthtml.txt its work done :) thx
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Bassam essa

December 25, 2008
thanx man i need to know how i can download html source page from elinks ? i try $ elinks - view HTML "http://www.google.com/" > resulthtml.txt but its dont work ...
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sam

December 25, 2008
Thanks for commenting the game. I'm new to chess and it's great to see your reasoning behind some of the moves. However, how do you know what to call the ...
→ Ruy Lopez, Berlin defence, open variation

halfpi

December 24, 2008
I have to mention that on my HP nx 6325 Ubuntu install has been done in ~ 1h, but XP SP3 was not ready after 3h of working. Also Fedora ...
→ Give Linux a chance

tulcod

December 24, 2008
as for the grep problem, it's probably easier to do: grep needle -R .
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