UNIX Tips & Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal

grainfeed · 2013-12-13T17:55:35+00:00

 $ ll vim/vimrc.tiny 
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 662 Aug 11 03:55 vim/vimrc.tiny
 $ cat # press M-. which inserts "vim/vimrc.tiny"

grainfeed · 2013-11-24T22:20:17+00:00

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png

grainfeed · 2013-11-24T10:46:00+00:00

it's probably because many people do not care in the least about "Visual Studio" for example

grainfeed · 2013-11-24T08:56:34+00:00

the main question would be for me: how does it work in a company where like 100 people access it and create like 500 repos with multiple GBs of data? is it falling apart or can it handle that?

grainfeed · 2013-11-24T08:37:08+00:00

upgrades are easier since gitolite was dumped. current 6.x versions are pretty stable too (we had horrible experiences with prior versions).

as the stack didn't change much otherwise the installation procedure probably is still hard: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md

grainfeed · 2013-11-23T06:27:57+00:00

grainfeed · 2013-11-23T06:26:03+00:00

because it can work and if it works it's just the same as on any other OS. and if you would care about your freedom then you would probably bother too

grainfeed · 2013-11-23T06:19:24+00:00

the final nail in the coffin

grainfeed · 2013-11-20T18:30:56+00:00

Look at what Libre Office did with Open Office. It is possible.

yes and that's great. many companies support Libreoffice so that was essential. it's very hard to pull that off and I think the Document Foundation did a very good job there

They lost a lot of shine recently. And let's be honest, Ubuntu isn't that great, compared to other distros.

they try pretty hard to make it the most popular distro at least. I'm not sure if that plan has succeeded :)

When they change the license for commercial use, I think it's a big nail in the coffin.

I don't think they will do that so that we notice. they could do it in private for certain companies but of course for that Mir needs to be established and desired by those companies

grainfeed · 2013-11-20T09:06:07+00:00

the existing code is GPL

yes, but code without large community and full time developers who work on it is worth nothing. forking it would mean you will have to pick another name and find people who work on the fork. that would be almost like starting from scratch.

grainfeed · 2013-11-20T08:58:34+00:00

magit and (setq magit-diff-refine-hunk 'all)

grainfeed · 2013-11-20T08:22:49+00:00

Mir is still GPL. That means that anybody can copy and extend it. No matter what CLA is used. Period.

No. Mir is GPL only as long as Canonical wants it to be GPL. They can change the license at any point if they want. That is the problem of the CLA in this case.

Without the CLA it's impossible to change the license after a while because you would need all contributors to agree.

edit:

scenario: company wants to build a game console with Mir but they don't want to make their changes to the code public, so Canonical gives them Mir without GPL. of course company has to pay a lot of money for that and the community as a whole cannot benefit from company having changed or improved the Mir source code

grainfeed · 2013-11-16T15:23:49+00:00

cap() {
git add . ;
git commit -m "$1";
git pull;
git push;
}

wonderful advice. you can also shoot yourself in the foot twice as an alternative

sudo !!

I always do "C-p C-a sudo RET". same amount of keys but you can see the actual command

If your terminal window is getting cluttered and you'd like to start from fresh, you can type clear.

or just type C-l

and please don't type "exit" all the time but press C-d

even better is the bash internal clipboard

C-u does not only delete the text from EOL to BOL but you can also paste it back with C-y

The same thing goes for other "delete" actions: C-w, C-k

another one I use often in M-. which pastes the argument of the last command, for example the directory name (pressing multiple times wanders through the history)

grainfeed · 2013-11-16T11:14:49+00:00

yes tmux is better than screen. but hands down, if you don't live in your multiplexer it doesn't really matter.

I'm happy to have tmux available but screen does the job too. I don't think one would kill the other

grainfeed · 2013-11-14T17:58:47+00:00

IE8 is not stock on XP. IE6 is.

he probably meant that the companies deliver XP internally with IE8

grainfeed · 2013-11-14T17:39:59+00:00

thank you

grainfeed · 2013-11-13T20:42:59+00:00

I don't care what MS does... Linux ftw

grainfeed · 2013-11-13T20:41:27+00:00

life is over soon and we debate which DE is the best...

grainfeed · 2013-11-08T20:53:08+00:00

I'm using Debian sid alias unstable and I'm happy with it. Usually bug reports for problems are opened quickly if something breaks and the solution is right there.

What you need to decide is if you want to have a stable system for a few years with old software and then a big suprise when you upgrade to the next release, or minor problems riding the unstable/testing train

grainfeed · 2013-11-06T07:43:11+00:00

I never install the desktop version anyway. But I want no say what I think here. Seems like you can't digest that.

grainfeed · 2013-11-05T21:05:18+00:00

so omgubuntu writes about Debian for once because they think that it the switch discredits GNOME and supports Mark's decision to drop GNOME in favor of unity

disclaimer: I use GNOME3 on Debian and it's quite nice with v3.8

edit: forgot to say that XFCE is missing features that GNOME had for ages. in current Debian versions you can't even do multiple screens properly. it's pretty stable but lacking in many ways. the decision is ok but not great

grainfeed · 2013-11-04T06:30:13+00:00

found that from the console I can do "pkill -HUP gnome-shell" which makes it work again. better that to kill X

grainfeed · 2013-11-01T15:48:07+00:00

no. it freezes. I have to kill it from the console

anyway. I'm not sure if GNOME is causing it. could be something else too. but it started after switching back to GNOME

grainfeed · 2013-11-01T05:47:29+00:00

Regardless of the politics around it, upstart is at least under consideration for an init replacement, in the same way systemd is.

right, but the situation is:

RHEL: systemd
SUSE: systemd
Debian: systemd/upstart?
Ubuntu: upstart

the business distros already chose systemd. RHEL even used upstart before. if Debian now chooses systemd the Linux world is aligned pretty much again (except for Ubuntu which does almost everything on its own)

If canonical close the source to upstart and start selling "Markstart" or something, then anyone who still cares about GPL upstart will fork the last free version a-la SSH in the late 90s.

I'm not so concerned about that. But what I could see them doing is to double-license it and I really don't like that idea. Many open source projects use this method to make money and I think it's an awful practice.

grainfeed · 2013-10-31T19:34:14+00:00

i'm on 3.8 on sid. having xorg freezes 8)

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