As a unix geek, I like to see and sometimes browse /usr for various reasons. While I can do it from the command line, it would be nice to be able to do it in the Finder. Thanks to information I found in the article Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
color grep
5/23/2006 – 11:32 am
Every once in awhile I come across a feature of a piece of software, generally, a small utility that I hadn’t known about and that shows immediate value. Today Jon showed me the –color flag for GNU grep. It uses color to highlight the term you were searching for in the line returned. For example:
# grep [...]
Where is your Howie Mandel now?
5/23/2006 – 8:12 am
So, last night I was inspried by NBC’s Deal or No Deal (which is still the dumbest name ever) to ask Mark the important question of: Porn or No Porn?
He replied:
well, there’s 300 billion sites out there, but if i open up one site, i might see a man doing another man and [...]
It’s okay, he’s elite!
5/16/2006 – 9:33 am
We borrowed my parent’s minivan over the past weekend. We were using it when the odometer happened upon a fun mile, I couldn’t resist taking a picture.
I love cheesy poofs
5/16/2006 – 9:32 am
Thanks to Kris and Joe, you can now see the digitial projection of my South Park self.
You too can use the South Park character generator .
Concatenate PDFs
5/3/2006 – 1:09 pm
I often like to print out many web pages to read on the train. To not waste paper I like to print them 2 up and double sided. If the printer supports it, I also like to staple the pages. On Linux, I use Firefox to print to postscript, then used a2ps to have [...]
