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[one-liner]: Using the Linux Command, dirsplit, to Dynamically Backup a Directory Over Multiple DVDs
Background
At my day job I deal with a fair amount of image data. We typically are shipping the data out on either hard drives, thumb drives, or via SFTP. On occasion we will some times burn it to a CD and/or a DVD. But until today all the data was either large sets (200-400GB) variety, [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Script to Cleanly Start Dropbox During a boot sequence on Linux (Fedora & CentOS)
Background
I’m an avid user of Dropbox. I run it on all my Linux and Windows systems, and it simply just works. However, one annoying thing that I’ve just dealt with for a while now on Linux, is when I reboot my laptop, Dropbox, doesn’t come up correctly due to the wireless network not being up [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Howto get Firefox 10.x to Launch a BitTorrent Client via a Magnet Link on Linux
Background
If you’ve ever used BitTorrent you’re probably familiar with having to download a .torrent file and then opening it in a BitTorent client such as Vuze (previously known as Azureus). You may not however be that familiar with magnet links, so called trackerless torrents.
The difference? Where a .torrent is a file that includes among other [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Howto Install Firefox 10.x on Fedora 14, CentOS 5.x & 6.x
Background
If you’re like me and still hanging back on Fedora 14, here’s a way to stay on the latest versions of Firefox without having to upgrade Fedora just yet.
Solution
Thanks to this post on the if-not-true-then-false blog (aka. if !1 0), it’s pretty easy to get firefox 10 working just fine on Fedora 14. Here are [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Running a Windows Program from a HTML Page in Internet Explorer
Background
We recently needed a way to launch executables on a Windows system, but wanted to run them from a web browser, locally. Turns out to be pretty easy with a little bit of VBScript.
Solution
Here’s a quick example on how to make a .html file that can be used to launch applications locally. This seems like [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Using the Command lsb_release to Determine Linux Distro Version Info
Background
If you need to determine which version of Linux you’re using you can use the command lsb_release. It’s part of the Linux Standards Base which is a specification that was created by the Linux Foundation.
Solution
Obviously there are other ways to do this, for example, on a Redhat based system you can look for the file [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Redirecting an Already Running Program’s STDOUT to a File using dupx
Background
Recently I came across this really cool UNIX tool called dupx. I was looking for a way to connect to a program’s STDOUT and STDERR after I had already started it. This was a long running, think 30+ hours job, and I didn’t want to have to stop and restart it. As is the case [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Adding Git Repos to SparkleShare Doesn’t Appear to Work
Background
I’ve been using SparkleShare for almost a year now and it has impressed me with how well it’s able to act as my Dropbox replacement. It took a little coaxing, mainly around setting up a unique ssh key pair just for SparkleShare, so that I could allow it to run both when I’m at home [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Adding Git Repos to SparkleShare Doesn’t Appear to Work
Background
I’ve been using SparkleShare for almost a year now and it has impressed me with how well it’s able to act as my Dropbox replacement. It took a little coaxing, mainly around setting up a unique ssh key pair just for SparkleShare, so that I could allow it to run both when I’m at home [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Using tcprobe to Detect a DVD’s Video Format, PAL or NTSC, via the Command Line
Background
Having kids I’m always dealing with DVDs, either backing them up or repairing them. Recently we received a bunch of DVDs from a friend of various kid movies. Some of them just refused to play in our DVD player and being a geek who’s curious I wanted to better understand why. Turns out the DVDs [...] Continue reading
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