It is written in python. All you do it put an nzb in the directory that it is watching, wait a few hours, and you have all your data, par'ed, decoded, patched together, and unrared, sitting in the output folder.
If you have a network storage server, you can conveniently share the queue directory with samba or NFS, and centralize all your downloading.
It's also open source and you can use it over SSH, so you can have downloads ready for you when you get home from work!
Consider a page that is full of URLs. Think about how many URLs are transmitted to your computer right now just to load this page. I count 1295 right now, just in tags.
Personally, I'm not concerned, but if you want to see how many tags are in any page, paste this into your address bar and press Enter.
An easy way to make FireFox slow on Linux (without knowing how you did it):
Turn on a local firewall and block localhost traffic. FireFox tries to connect to the local X server frequently (port 16001) and since the traffic is dropped, the connection has to time out (takes about a second,) which noticeably makes web browsing slower.
Solution: Don't treat Linux like Windows! A local firewall is generally not needed!
Furthermore, web browsing on Windows is painfully slow for me, since Windows itself seems slower (menus, file operations, the painful command line interface) and on top of that, the antivirus software cripples it further!
The line returns are all there... you can see by viewing the source of the comment. However, a \r only gets you so far when you're dealing with HTML...
Octave is a free version of Matlab, practically all your Matlab code will work in Octave.
... if you don't use any of Matlab's GUI stuff... or their toolboxes... some of your code MAY be runnable by Octave if you're lucky. I do like Octave and use it myself, but porting Matlab code to Octave doesn't always work.
X WINDOWS: ---------- alt + left-click and drag any window to move it... you don't have to use the top of the window! This gets me all the time in Windows. alt + middle-click any window to send it to the background alt + right-click and drag any window to resize it
copy text simply by highlighting it, paste simply by middle clicking
setting up the window manager to use multiple workspaces and scrolling on the desktop to switch between them
starting a second X session as another user with "X:1" and switching between them with ctrl+alt+f9 and ctrl+alt+f10 (or just use a login manager that handles this for you)
FROM THE COMMAND LINE: ---------------------- Using xargs to add.jpg to a bunch of files that have spaces in their names (using the interactive mode of xargs.) # find . -print0 | xargs -p -0 -IX mv X X.jpg
That was just a sample from my notes... which brings me to another topic, keeping notes when you learn a new command. The man pages are great, and you should learn to read them, but when you combine multiple commands to accomplish a task, or there is tricky syntax, a notebook (digital or physical) is an excellent thing to have.
Learning a scripting language helps too. Bash, perl, python, and many others are options. I use scripts to do some very simple things, but they still save me a lot of time. For example: Download new pictures from my camera, and auto-rotate them. Set up passwordless SSH on any machine that I have an account and password to. Parse the (monster and item list) data files from an open source game and update the game's wiki (including logging in, changing text, and uploading images if required.)
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Any chance we can draw circles and boxes now?
Yes, I know about gfig, and I know I can laboriously create paths and nonsense like that, but sometimes I just want to draw shapes simply and directly.
Now that you mention it, it seems like it should be relatively easy to create a plug-in to draw shapes exactly how you are requesting. All you would have to do is automatically combine the two steps required right now.
On second thought, you may just be thinking of it backwards. When you draw a shape in another program (say MS Paint,) the steps required are: - Pick the shape's properties (color, line width, etc.) - Draw the shape
In the GIMP, the steps are reversed: - Draw the shape - Pick the shape's properties (color, line width, etc.)
I suppose the second step in the GIMP method is more involved than the first step in the MS Paint method, but it does provide more options as well.
You could just purchase a second or third battery (not that expensive) and change it out after 10 hours if you are so concerned about the battery life.
3) The photos are of rather poor quality, and they don't have a good copy of the images. When you upload something to them, it is generally scaled down on your computer before it even gets to them.
Quit complaining about something that is free and you are not forced to use! Also, a complaint as ambiguous as "I find it unusable" shows that you are the one who is incapable of using the software, not that the software is incapable of being used. Your argument may well have been: "Wah! I can't learn new software so stop trying to make me feel uncool for not being able to use it!"
Actually, I have a Firefox Smart Bookmark set up so that./ in the location bar redirects to http://www.slashdot.org Interesting, is there some reason that you need to type/. backwards in order to have that work properly?
At least in Linux I can move the dialog boxes by alt+dragging anywhere on the window. If there is a Windows equivalent of this I would love to know about it!
This is probably the closest we'll ever come to the situation that prompted Kent Brockman to say "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords" and you go and screw it up! Hand in your nerd card, please. Hail ants!
So... apt-get is too "command line," synaptic surely must be close to what you're looking for. If not, there's always Click-n-Run. By the way, the Linux kernel has always had "native support" for such an install system (all that is required is for the kernel to be able to read and write files.) The problem is nobody wrote such a program for several years. Many Linux distributions have avoided "dependency hell" (the problem you are describing) since I started using Linux around 2002.
In the '90s, before many "warez d00ds" discovered scripting, this was the norm as well. This was even before captchas, when all you had to do to get accounts anywhere was send some post data and reply to the confirmation email. Submit 50 (or some other number) new accounts + passwords, and you're in. Ah, the good old days.
what i am saying is that if you do any drug to heighten yourself, you achieve the opposite: you denigrate and diminish a sense of self
My "sense of self" is just fine. What you're worried about is others perception of you. This is a problem of social acceptance not self reflection. By and large, people don't care if someone uses drugs to help them concentrate or stay awake. If Bob in accounting is popping NoDoze no one really cares. Life isn't fair and unlike sporting events the real world isn't a competition. People are different and make different choices. Deal with it.
P.S. You can use your shift key to make capital letters. Certainly, everyone is free to make their own decisions. People also change, and as they get older they look back at their life and find flaws with everything. Some are easy to gloss over, but when you're sitting in a bar with old friends discussing your accomplishments and they've done theirs without any extra "assistance" you might become depressed. Then again, you probably won't.
P.S. Use the quote tags to stop wasting other people's time.
Since I am lacking mod points, I would just like to say I agree with you. "Enhancement" drug use is a long road, and although many on it may not have thought about the aspect you described, I'm sure many don't care either. Using drugs in this fashion is similar to cheating at a one player game. You may win in the end and feel good about it, but it is a hollow victory.
One of the many problems is where to draw the line. For example: Climbing Everest with oxygen, taking pain killers to numb pain while training or recovering from an injury, having a personal trainer set up a regimented diet for you, using OTC cold medication to take care of cold symptoms while at work.
Everyone has their own set of "this is OK, this isn't" and it will be that way for a long time. In this case, I share your opinions. It's noble to try to inform others that they may be setting themselves up for disappointment, but it's impossible to convince them that what their opinions are wrong.
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I prefer hellanzb.
It is written in python. All you do it put an nzb in the directory that it is watching, wait a few hours, and you have all your data, par'ed, decoded, patched together, and unrared, sitting in the output folder.
If you have a network storage server, you can conveniently share the queue directory with samba or NFS, and centralize all your downloading.
It's also open source and you can use it over SSH, so you can have downloads ready for you when you get home from work!
I tried to do the same thing on an Ubuntu drive that had bad sectors, but the security on the files prevented them from being accessed.
Security like... file permissions? Did you try backing up the files as root?
Posting to remove 'Informative' moderation. I will think before moderating...
Consider a page that is full of URLs. Think about how many URLs are transmitted to your computer right now just to load this page. I count 1295 right now, just in tags.
Personally, I'm not concerned, but if you want to see how many tags are in any page, paste this into your address bar and press Enter.
javascript:alert(document.getElementsByTagName("A").length)
I've only tried this in FF3, and of course URLs can be more places than in an href="" string of an tag...
To report a link to the IWF, click here.
Do you think the IWF site could be added? BBC? National Geographic? Youtube? Only one way to find out.
An easy way to make FireFox slow on Linux (without knowing how you did it):
Turn on a local firewall and block localhost traffic. FireFox tries to connect to the local X server frequently (port 16001) and since the traffic is dropped, the connection has to time out (takes about a second,) which noticeably makes web browsing slower.
Solution: Don't treat Linux like Windows! A local firewall is generally not needed!
Furthermore, web browsing on Windows is painfully slow for me, since Windows itself seems slower (menus, file operations, the painful command line interface) and on top of that, the antivirus software cripples it further!
The line returns are all there... you can see by viewing the source of the comment. However, a \r only gets you so far when you're dealing with HTML...
Well, you can use newer versions of OpenSSH to do VPN, although I think you are required to enable root login over SSH.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh
Scroll down to the section: "SSH-BASED VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS"
An example here:
http://blog.brixandersen.dk/?p=47
and another on my personal site:
http://mcarlson.ca/fossnotes/?page=ssh
X WINDOWS:
----------
alt + left-click and drag any window to move it... you don't have to use the top of the window! This gets me all the time in Windows.
alt + middle-click any window to send it to the background
alt + right-click and drag any window to resize it
copy text simply by highlighting it, paste simply by middle clicking
setting up the window manager to use multiple workspaces and scrolling on the desktop to switch between them
starting a second X session as another user with "X :1" and switching between them with ctrl+alt+f9 and ctrl+alt+f10 (or just use a login manager that handles this for you)
FROM THE COMMAND LINE: .jpg to a bunch of files that have spaces in their names (using the interactive mode of xargs.)
----------------------
Using xargs to add
# find . -print0 | xargs -p -0 -IX mv X X.jpg
rot13 "decryption"
# cat filename | tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M' | less
follow a log file in realtime, even when it gets rotated: /var/log/messages --follow=name --retry
# tail -f
creating a VPN (not just port forwarding) with SSH... a bit too big to put here
Rotating (losslessly) JPEG images based on the EXIF tags
# jhead -autorot *.jpg
Run a command from an empty environment
# env -i command
Look up an IP via a specific DNS server:
# dig @server ip
Look up the host name for an IP:
# dig -x ip
Grabbing multiple files from a website and saving them:
# curl http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk%5B150-152%5D.mp3 -o "bsdtalk#1.mp3"
That was just a sample from my notes... which brings me to another topic, keeping notes when you learn a new command. The man pages are great, and you should learn to read them, but when you combine multiple commands to accomplish a task, or there is tricky syntax, a notebook (digital or physical) is an excellent thing to have.
Learning a scripting language helps too. Bash, perl, python, and many others are options. I use scripts to do some very simple things, but they still save me a lot of time. For example: Download new pictures from my camera, and auto-rotate them. Set up passwordless SSH on any machine that I have an account and password to. Parse the (monster and item list) data files from an open source game and update the game's wiki (including logging in, changing text, and uploading images if required.)
Any chance we can draw circles and boxes now?
Yes, I know about gfig, and I know I can laboriously create paths and nonsense like that, but
sometimes I just want to draw shapes simply and directly.
Now that you mention it, it seems like it should be relatively easy to create a plug-in to draw shapes exactly how you are requesting. All you would have to do is automatically combine the two steps required right now.
On second thought, you may just be thinking of it backwards. When you draw a shape in another program (say MS Paint,) the steps required are:
- Pick the shape's properties (color, line width, etc.)
- Draw the shape
In the GIMP, the steps are reversed:
- Draw the shape
- Pick the shape's properties (color, line width, etc.)
I suppose the second step in the GIMP method is more involved than the first step in the MS Paint method, but it does provide more options as well.
You could just purchase a second or third battery (not that expensive) and change it out after 10 hours if you are so concerned about the battery life.
3) The photos are of rather poor quality, and they don't have a good copy of the images. When you upload something to them, it is generally scaled down on your computer before it even gets to them.
"Before we sit down for the Lord of the Rings marathon, you've all taken your couch potato pills, right?"
"Yes! Stop asking!"
Quit complaining about something that is free and you are not forced to use! Also, a complaint as ambiguous as "I find it unusable" shows that you are the one who is incapable of using the software, not that the software is incapable of being used. Your argument may well have been: "Wah! I can't learn new software so stop trying to make me feel uncool for not being able to use it!"
At least in Linux I can move the dialog boxes by alt+dragging anywhere on the window. If there is a Windows equivalent of this I would love to know about it!
This is probably the closest we'll ever come to the situation that prompted Kent Brockman to say "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords" and you go and screw it up! Hand in your nerd card, please. Hail ants!
So... apt-get is too "command line," synaptic surely must be close to what you're looking for. If not, there's always Click-n-Run. By the way, the Linux kernel has always had "native support" for such an install system (all that is required is for the kernel to be able to read and write files.) The problem is nobody wrote such a program for several years. Many Linux distributions have avoided "dependency hell" (the problem you are describing) since I started using Linux around 2002.
Better yet, subscribe to the digital edition. It's only US$15, in a non-DRM'd pdf, and they email you every month when the new issue comes out!
Satan I can understand (BSD Devil, references to the Beast from Redmond, Chipzilla, etc), but Britney Speares? That's EVIL!
Joking aside, there are a few projects that use SATAN as an acronym which would pad out the numbers quite a bit:
In the '90s, before many "warez d00ds" discovered scripting, this was the norm as well. This was even before captchas, when all you had to do to get accounts anywhere was send some post data and reply to the confirmation email. Submit 50 (or some other number) new accounts + passwords, and you're in. Ah, the good old days.
Additionally, in new large installations, IBM often oversees design and construction of the building (or floors) the computer is going to be in.
My "sense of self" is just fine. What you're worried about is others perception of you. This is a problem of social acceptance not self reflection. By and large, people don't care if someone uses drugs to help them concentrate or stay awake. If Bob in accounting is popping NoDoze no one really cares. Life isn't fair and unlike sporting events the real world isn't a competition. People are different and make different choices. Deal with it.
P.S. You can use your shift key to make capital letters. Certainly, everyone is free to make their own decisions. People also change, and as they get older they look back at their life and find flaws with everything. Some are easy to gloss over, but when you're sitting in a bar with old friends discussing your accomplishments and they've done theirs without any extra "assistance" you might become depressed. Then again, you probably won't.
P.S. Use the quote tags to stop wasting other people's time.
Since I am lacking mod points, I would just like to say I agree with you. "Enhancement" drug use is a long road, and although many on it may not have thought about the aspect you described, I'm sure many don't care either. Using drugs in this fashion is similar to cheating at a one player game. You may win in the end and feel good about it, but it is a hollow victory.
One of the many problems is where to draw the line. For example: Climbing Everest with oxygen, taking pain killers to numb pain while training or recovering from an injury, having a personal trainer set up a regimented diet for you, using OTC cold medication to take care of cold symptoms while at work.
Everyone has their own set of "this is OK, this isn't" and it will be that way for a long time. In this case, I share your opinions. It's noble to try to inform others that they may be setting themselves up for disappointment, but it's impossible to convince them that what their opinions are wrong.