http://movabletripe.com Making up launch dates since 1982 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:33:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en #!/bin/bash if [ -f girlproblems.txt ] then FEELINGS="bad" PROBLEMS=`cat myproblems.txt | wc -l` if [ $PROBLEMS == "99" ] then BITCHES=`cat myproblems.txt | grep bitch | wc -l` if [ $BITCHES == "0" ] then ... http://movabletripe.com/archive/i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one/ grep -i -r somestring ./ -i means ignore case -r means recursive Simple stuff, but useful nonetheless. http://movabletripe.com/archive/grep-all-files-in-a-directory-for-a-string/ Opera has released an official beta build of its upcoming version 9.2 of the popular web browser. One of the big drawcards for this release is the inclusion of something they call "Speed Dial". Basically, it is essentially a launchpad for your favourite sites which is displayed in any blank ... http://movabletripe.com/archive/opera-920-beta-slackware-packages/ You learn something new every day, or so the saying goes. Today I learned that the lyrics from the song "Lateralus" by Tool form a Fibonacci sequence. [1] black [1] then [2] white are [3] all I see [5] in my infancy [8] red and yellow then came to be [5] reaching out to me [3] lets me ... http://movabletripe.com/archive/lateralus-and-the-fibonacci-sequence/ Steve Ballmer has fired off another warning shot across the bow of the Linux users and open source vendors in general by repeating his threats to sue companies that do not respect Microsoft's intellectual property. Microsoft has argued in the past that Linux infringes on their IP, but when called upon ... http://movabletripe.com/archive/ballmer-reissues-patent-threat-against-linux/ When developing and/or designing websites for clients, I often use a quasi versioning system to keep track of older copies of their respective projects. For example, if I often create a repository for all of my development such as http://mybusiness.com/clientname and all subsequent revisions of the project in directories reflecting ... http://movabletripe.com/archive/php-redirect-script/ Is Bill trying to tell us something? http://movabletripe.com/archive/microsoft-anus/ For the first time in recorded history (ie. as far as I can remember), linux is actually leading the pack when it comes to flash-player versions. The screenshot below is taken straight from the Adobe website no less than a few minutes ago: Notice that Linux is at version 9,0,31,0, while ... http://movabletripe.com/archive/linux-leads-windows-and-osx-in-flash-player-version/ Current testing release opera-9.20b_20070323.5-i386-1_hno.tgz opera-9.01_20060629.6-i486-1hno.tgz Current stable release opera-9.10_20061214.5-i386-1_hno.tgz opera-9.0-i486-1hno.tgz About the above packages The opera desktop team have been releasing weekly builds of the upcoming recently released version 9.0. I have been creating opera slackware packages for each one of these releases for my own personal use, and considering the fact that 9.0-final has been released, I ... http://movabletripe.com/archive/opera-slackware-packages/ find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; This will recursively search your directory tree (starting at dir 'dot') and chmod 755 all directories only. Similarly, the following will chmod all files only (and ignore the directories): find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; http://movabletripe.com/archive/recursively-chmod-directories-only/