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18 Nov 2010 »
custom 'casper' directory location for BackTrack
This turned out to be more complicated than I thought.
At first, I thought that it's just a matter of changing the
bootparameter - both the lowercase and uppercase ones (I didn't know which was right); after all, they contain the word "casper"./boot/vmlinuz BOOT=/path/to ... -
06 Oct 2010 »
scripting fun
I needed to get a list of time slots of one hour each, from 900h to 1700h, for two days, 11th and 12th October. Unfortunately, Google Docs' spreadsheet wasn't clever enough to guess the pattern for Auto Fill to work.
Python came to mind:
>>> for day in (11,12 ...
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19 Sep 2010 »
Chungking Express
One of the most memorable films I've watched. I had no idea the female lead in the second part was Faye Wong, until someone else told me. What a zany performance!
According to the various critical reviews, if this film is approached from a plot/story perspective, then it ...
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15 Aug 2010 »
a perspective on Mexico's drug scene - from the ground
Check out Blog del Narco - it reports on drug-related affairs, but sans the risk and threats that a normal brick-and-mortar news agency would face.
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11 Aug 2010 »
minimize to tray for claws mail
This goes out to users of Claws Mail distributed in Gpg4win - apart from the TrayIcon plugin (which isn't available in Gpg4win's distribution), the tray icon feature can also be enabled by loading the notification plugin.
With it, you can minimize Claws Mail to tray - on Windows, at least ...
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10 Aug 2010 »
"&&" as control flow operators
Recently, despite having zero knowledge of Ruby, I read a Ruby article on
andvs&&, via Ruby Inside. It's pretty interesting to note such a distinction in Ruby.Let's have a look at python and JavaScript.
For python: the C-like
&&is not available, onlyand. Using the Python ... -
10 Jul 2010 »
coolest chkdsk error ever!
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>chkdsk /f g: The type of the file system is NTFS. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like ...
