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Most used UNIX commands

Categories: Unix

I love my Unix shell for quickly adjusting files or moving them to and from. The only problem with the shell on Unix-based systems is that you can forget these commands if you don’t use them on a regular base, I’ve got a big collection of these commands on Evernote,…

 

VI add prefix to CSS entries

Categories: Unix

I needed to add the prefix div#wiki to all declarations in a CSS-file, my trick: Format the CSS-file in Eclipse Run this simple search and replace in VI(M) :%s/^.*{/div#wiki &/g Edit: Updated

 

Assembler bootloader

Categories: Mac Unix

Some months ago I was interested how a computer starts up and how all this is done low-level. Well some weeks ago a teacher at our school explained that it’s quite easy and interested as I was I wrote a bootloader (collected from various online website’s) that shows a simple…

 

Delete SVN-folders

Categories: Mac Unix

Find and delete all .svn-folders on an Unix-based system. Usefull for initial imports. find ./ -name ".svn" | xargs rm -Rf  

 

VIM edit multiple files

Categories: Unix

Today I had the problem that I needed to replace text in about 70 documents that where in a folder with about 300 documents, because I’m too lazy to look in every file for a specific pattern I searched on Google for a better solution where I only had to…

 

Lightweight Subversion server with OpenBSD

Categories: Unix

Introduction Recently I bought a cheap and power-expensive 500MHZ computer at Microclient with a 3.9GB’s Solid State Disc (SSD) and 256MB of Random Access Memory (RAM). I never could have guessed at that moment that it would cost me so much time and energie to get it up and running.…

 

OpenBSD: DD-WRT and WOL on MicroClient

Categories: Unix

Recently had a chat with a friend of mine about the MicroClient and his powerconsumption (I thought 15Watts is less) but he told me the devices uses A LOT of power for simple tasks. So he told me Wake On Lan (WOL) could be a nice solution for bringing the…

 

Xebian on XBOX as MediaCenter

Categories: Unix

Introduction Today (9th July) I finally managed to get my Xbox to watch streamed movies from VLC-Player. Before this I used Xbox Media Center (XBMC) and this wasn’t running that smoothly. For instance when a movie wasn’t PAL but NTSC it wouldn’t want to play in XBMC, so I dropped…

 

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