Uniextract is by far the nicest universal extraction tool that I have come across yet- and it is free.
I randomly searched for "Lobster pain". Partly it was not a randomly selected subject to query for, because I had just been discussing the health of the Lobster and Crab meat varieties with a colleague of mine (They are actually fairly or even quite healthy - Lobster has no fat..and good a good amount of protein <em>[as long as you don't soak it in butter]</em>, and Crab wasn't tooooo horrible..). Anyways, we were talking about that, and then my colleage said to me
<p>"I don't know if I could throw a lobster on the grill while it's alive though. That just seems so cruel."</p>
To which I replied:
<p>"I don't think they throw them on the grill alive!"</p>
Which then got me thinking about boiling lobsters...and hence the search, and basically the realization that their nervous systems are so simple that they don't experience pain! Wow!
Laters.
Bug.gd looks like an interesting idea. I dunno, ..like searching Google already usually works pretty good for me when I come across errors (e.g. code compilation errors). Additionally, I don't know how I feel about the sites dubious marketing tactic of making a search plugin for the ever popular, trendy, [but mostly] just plain slow Mozilla Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6138).
G'day.
On second thought, I think I much prefer http://stackoverflow.com/'s approach.
Late at night, my 24" LCD monitor is way too bright! So I have found a piece software which can dim it. It is nice because it is a super-lightweight application with a low footprint/overhead, and also has the options which allow for the assignment of a hotkey to activate a specific profile.
In the second video, the we see the classic burning alcohol trick in the shortest form I've seen. The commentary is by a third party (mother?) who is wondering why there's a little tin cup with an open flame sitting on the motherboard of the laptop computer. BGA solder failure was a known manufacturing defect on some runs of Apple iBooks and IBM T series laptops, and probably others besides. People worked out that the video processor BGA contacts were the problem by physically pressing on the chip and seeing their video work. The first attempt at repair is usually jurt jamming something non-conductive between the chip and the case to keep the contacts pressed together, but that fix usually stops working after a while, so reflowing the solder becomes the only solution.
-- http://www.ifitjams.com/2008/08/reflowing-solder-under-bga-processors.html
CDBurnerXP seems like a nice (and free as in beer i think..) windows cd-burning and iso-image extraction utility.
I wanted to rename a bunch of Firefox session files, because they have been tugged along from Windows install to install, and the naming had gotten crazy and inconsistent. So I whipped this up:
Administrator@hammertime:/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application Da
a/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/ev0zie8w.default/sessions$ export IFS="
"; for f in `ls -1 zPortofire--* | grep '^.*\([0-9-]\+\).*$'`; do mv "$f" "`echo
f | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)\(200[0-9-]\+\)\(.*\)$/\2 \1\3/g' | sed -e 's/zPortofire--/Portofire /g' | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | sed -e 's/ \+/ /g' | sed -e 's/--/-/g' | sed -e
s/[ -]\./\./g' | sed -e 's/Portofire - /Portofire /g'`"; done
I'm not saying that it is complicated once you break it down...but I don't know many other people IRL who can create these useful little command line scripts.
hmm.
I have noticed a strange behavior in the way that Mozilla Firefox handles the TAB and SHIFT-TAB keys. Use your imagination (or do a mental simulation with the following scenario:
You are sitting in front of your computer. You click and subsequently run the trendy and well-liked (and Open Source Software (OSS) nonetheless!) Firefox Web Browser program (for some reason I feel the need to state the following: once Google implements plug-ins for the Chrome web browser, I think it will probably pick up a huge chunk of the browser market software quality things may well chagne -- and let's face it, FF's model is S-L-O-W in many instances when compared to the more advanced and well-suited multi-threading system used by Chrome. At any rate..I think that was just way too much information on a side topic..).
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:0.5em;margin:0.5em;text-align:center;"> <a href="/images/ff_0_freshly_started_up.png"><img src="/images/ff_0_freshly_started_up-th.png" alt="Firefox has finished starting up and is displaying a blank white page" title="Firefox has finished starting up and is displaying a blank white page" style="border-width:1px;width:390px;height:149px;" border="1" width="390" height="149" /></a> <br /> The result above was obtained by: Firefox has finished starting up and is displaying a blank white page (My homepage is blank).</div>
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:0.5em;margin:0.5em;text-align:center;"> <a href="/images/ff_1_left-clicked_url_bar.png"><img src="/images/ff_1_left-clicked_url_bar-th.png" alt="You have clicked in the URL bar region" title="You have clicked in the URL bar region" style="border-width:1px;width:390px;height:149px;" border="1" width="390" height="149" /></a> <br /> The result above was obtained by: The mouse has been clicked in the URL bar region.</div>
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:0.5em;margin:0.5em;text-align:center;"> <a href="/images/ff_2_pressed_shift-tab.png"><img src="/images/ff_2_pressed_shift-tab-th.png" alt="Pressed the SHIFT-TAB key combination once" title="Pressed the SHIFT-TAB key combination once" style="border-width:1px;width:390px;height:149px;" border="1" width="390" height="149" /></a> <br /> The result above was obtained by: Pressed the SHIFT-TAB key combination (or TAB-SHIFT, if you prefer) <u>one time</u>. Nothing much happened</div>
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:0.5em;margin:0.5em;text-align:center;"> <a href="/images/ff_3_pressed_shift-tab_again.png"><img src="/images/ff_3_pressed_shift-tab_again-th.png" alt="Pressed the SHIFT-TAB key combination one more time (so two times total)" title="Pressed the SHIFT-TAB key combination one more time (so two times total)" style="border-width:1px;width:390px;height:149px;" border="1" width="390" height="149" /></a> <br /> The result above was obtained by: Pressed the SHIFT-TAB key combination once more. It has now been pressed twice -- two (2) times total. Notice how the cursor is now up on the Google Search Toolbar widget.. after 2 presses..</div>
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:0.5em;margin:0.5em;text-align:center;"> <a href="/images/ff_4_pressed_tab.png"><img src="/images/ff_4_pressed_tab.png" alt="" style="border-width:1px;width:390px;height:149px;" border="1" width="390" height="149" /></a> <br /> The result above was obtained by: Pressing tab just one time.</div>
So ultimately, my question is simply, why does it take two reverse tab key presses to get to the search toolbar from the url bar, but only one to go from the search toolbar to the url bar?
So, while writing another article, I took some screenshots and had to upload them to the server. I used a unix utility called scp to upload the files through an encrypted SSH tunnel. However, after uploading the files, the permissions are NOT very friendly at all!
Administrator@hammertime:~/Desktop$ scp *.png defaultuser@wi-fizzle.com:/www/wi-fizzle.com/public/html/images/ ff_0_freshly_started_up.png 100% 23KB 23.2KB/s 00:00 ff_1_left-clicked_url_bar.png 100% 24KB 23.6KB/s 00:00 ff_2_pressed_shift-tab.png 100% 23KB 23.1KB/s 00:00 ff_3_pressed_shift-tab_again.png 100% 23KB 23.2KB/s 00:00 ff_4_pressed_tab.png 100% 24KB 23.6KB/s 00:00 Administrator@hammertime:~/Desktop$ defaultuser@wi-fizzle.com:/www/wi-fizzle.com/public/html/images> ls -lah ff*.png -rw-r--r-- 1 defaultuser users 24K May 21 14:12 ff_0_freshly_started_up.png -rw-r--r-- 1 defaultuser users 24K May 21 14:12 ff_1_left-clicked_url_bar.png -rw-r--r-- 1 defaultuser users 24K May 21 14:12 ff_2_pressed_shift-tab.png -rw-r--r-- 1 defaultuser users 23K May 21 14:13 ff_3_pressed_shift-tab_again.png -rw-r--r-- 1 defaultuser users 24K May 21 14:13 ff_4_pressed_tab.png
Now at least I have a better understanding of the behavior, I guess.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194311/change-permissions-upon-uploading-with-scp
Okay, so I triple-checked and noticed that it has happened again! It happened when I re-uploaded one of the image files, "ff_3_pressed_shift-tab_again.png". It's permissions were: "-rwx------".
File listing:
<pre>
defaultuser@wi-fizzle.com:/www/wi-fizzle.com/public/html/images> ls -lah *.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 ppx users 24K May 21 14:46 ff_0_freshly_started_up.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 ppx users 24K May 21 14:46 ff_1_left-clicked_url_bar.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 ppx users 24K May 21 14:46 ff_2_pressed_shift-tab.png
<strong>-rwx------ 1 ppx users 24K May 21 14:46 ff_3_pressed_shift-tab_again.png</strong>
-rw-r--r-- 1 ppx users 24K May 21 14:46 ff_4_pressed_tab.png
</pre>
Why is this annoying? Because the permissions are nothing like the local file here on my machine...I guess this will just have to remain a mystery for the time being.
I have been running Ubuntu 8.09 for the past month on my IBM Thinkpad R50 (Very similar to a T42 in every way except that it has a thicker plastic (instead of metal) screen lid).
Background information: I ran 7.09 for a few weeks before upgrading to 8.09, which was slow. So I then did a clean install of 8.09, which helped a little bit, but not nearly enough.
Speed (as in /LACK/ of speed) has been a major issue. Overall, the situation is out of control and unacceptable. This computer has 2 gigabytes (GB) of system memory, yet switching tabs in Firefox slows down not long after my browsing has begun (within ~15 minutes of opening FF). Even just navigating files in Gnome is really slow. I have turned Compiz and all visual effects off.
Even after doing a little bit of googling to look into the general slow GUI speed in 8.09, I have been unable to get things to be even close to Windows XP. I know, I know...Ubuntu is geared mostly towards newbies...but it's package system is so baller!
So, since the latest Ubuntu is such a hog (oink oink bacon), I don't think I really want to use it as my primary computing platform. I'm going to just put Windows XP back on and then run Ubuntu in a VM..bleh I seriously tried to ditch MS but the slowness just to navigate files via the GUI is so messed up and annoying! I suspect the bloat is out of control for Ubuntu.
To investigate at some point in the near-ish future:
'''empty''' is a utility that provides an interface to execute and/or interact with processes under pseudo-terminal sessions (PTYs). This tool is definitely useful in programming of shell scripts designed to communicate with interactive programs like telnet, ssh, ftp, etc. In some cases, empty can be the simplest replacement for TCL/expect or other similar programming tools.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!! I finally got around to this, and the obsessively compulsive part of me is so satisfied..mmm -- A Greasemonkey script to immediately focus the search box when you load imdb.com