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Linux-to-Windows Program Replacements

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using the Windows 7 beta. A shocker, I know, but I’ve been able to find replacements for most of the software I use everyday in Linux. The biggest hangups I’ve...

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Make Windows Act Like Linux

As I use Win7 more and more, there are things that I notice it doesn’t do that linux did do. Virtual desktops, certain programs minimizing to the systray, clipboard history. Small things, things that...

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A Method for CSS Variables

Jay Salvat at nettuts has written an article on adding variables to your css files. I like the approach, which includes caching the results, though the code presented is not 100% secure, as commenter...

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PHP Templating: Variable Date

In building a template system, you may want some way to inject date info using a timestamp (perhaps generated through mktime() ) and date(). But you don’t want the format to be dependent on the...

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Conky Transparency Fix for KDE4

I love the feeling of power that comes from doing something that google couldn’t help with In this case, I’ve spent the past couple days messing with Conky (yes, it is as addicting as they say). A...

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“Selective Top” Bash Script

In my daily work on linux, I constantly have several tabs open in my console app for various CLI activites. Normally, when I log in to a session, Yakuake auto-starts and I immediately open four tabs in...

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PHP Socket Implementation and Webpage Downloader

This post reveals two handy PHP constructs I’ve been using for a while now: a Socket class and a webpage-downloading function. The files: Socket.php (highlighted; plaintext) webpage.php (highlighted;...

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Bash rpad, lpad, and “center-pad”

One thing it seems bash has no tool for is padding strings. If you want to left-pad a number (say, 3) with zeros to a certain “string width” (say, 5 characters wide), you could do: $ echo `printf...

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SVN setup

Recently I set up an SVN repository in the hopes that maybe I can show off some of my programming work to potential clients (or maybe just other people who are interested). I ran into sufficient...

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Python: urllib2 handlers

Python is a great language, with a good community (see Freenode irc channel #python) — but its modules can have lousy documentation at times. One place where I find the documentation lacking is in the...

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