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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I'm moving away from eclipse and more and more into the wonderfull (and cold) world of the command line.
So I need to search for file that contain something in the current directory and its subdirectories all the time
grep -R "something I'm searching for" .
Grep is the way. And with some ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
That's it, the new ubuntu was coming and I was thinking, I'll get gimp 2.6 and tabs in nautilus ... But I should wait a few days before updating cause update is always buggy the first days ...
And fuck that I wanted to install archlinux anyway (it's just that I ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
I'm using GIMP 2.4 at my job to make a website and I heard a lot of people bad-mouthing it so I expected having a bad time with it, but it's really usable. And I had no experience of it before, my previous experience of photo editing takes me back ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Dear blog, it's been long since I last talked to you, but I felt like doing it tonight. This is the unfaithful transcription and translation of a chat I had tonight.
me: Math sucks.
mister M: That's not what you told me 10 minutes ago when talking about the number theory described ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I found a cool schema that I hadn't seen before on reddit today: the linux distro timeline.
We notice three main roots Debian the community distro, Slackware the one man distro and Red Hat the company developed distro. I guess everyone know them, nothing to see move along.
What's interesting ? The ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Just one of the problems that I finished solving a few hours ago for google code jam. It's the first time I tried a programming competition, and it's a pretty interesting one. Problems are hard but solvable and you always get a few sample inputs and outputs, which is really ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Futurama: the beast with a billion backs is out in DVD in the US and Canada and illegally on the internet for others, may it lead to the end of civilisation. This is a must watch. Futurama is as witty and fun as ever. You will have the honor to ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
A few days ago I developed a plugin for gedit that provides smart indentation for python code.
The code is indented when the previous line ends with ':' and un-indented if the previous line starts with 'return', 'pass', 'continue' or 'break'. This plugin will use your tab configuration for indentation. To ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
You have a brand new wordpress blog. How fast is it ? It's supposed to be fast, isn't it ? Lighttpd is dead fast, php is fast, mysql is fast.
So let's try it with ApacheBench:
ab -n 1000 http://libreamoi.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Well this is not so useful now that ipdb exists. Still ipdb sometimes fights with ipython, the ? of ipython doesn't work, so it might still be useful from time to time.
For those that are used to ipython the python debugger is often frustrating by its limitations: no completion, no ...
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