I am writing this while waiting for my daughter’s ballet class to end. The dance studio graciously provides wireless internet access. I have an ssh session to a remote machine behind a firewall which exposes only port 22. From there I ssh to another machine, a virtual one, on which I am installing xmonad 0.5. [...]
Archives for December 2007
fixing FreeAgent drives
Some months ago I bought a Seagate FreeAgent usb drive. It turned out that the drive did not play well with linux. After 15 idle minutes it spins down, and closes the usb connection. Later it remounts read-only. After much digging around in the Ubuntu forums I was able to make it work correctly. I [...]
flipping line endings
If you routinely move text files among Windows, Macs, and *nix machines, you may want to convert from one style of line endings to another. The flip program is very handy. Here’s the scoop:
Usage: flip [-t|-u|-d|-m] filename[s]
Converts ASCII files between Unix, MS-DOS/Windows, or Macintosh newline formats
Options:
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