Recently I discovered Android operation system. (little bit late, isn't it? But I'm not so fast guy). And I want to learn about the system little bit more. And learn about the system doesn't mean "know how to move icons on your home screen". Every MCSE (Mentally Challenged Software Engineer) knows that. Learn about the system means "know how to ( Read more... )

Today the name of fucking Windows (see note) is Ubuntu 8.04.

Did I ask too much? All I want is just change my password. And I got this great "error" message from passwd utility

Bad: new and old password are too similar

Hey, dear Bill Gates Mark Shuttleworth, you know - my password on my computer is not your fucking business. The simple fact ( Read more... )

I just found some site ( Read more... )

I like colorful life very much. And unfortunately my terminal window is pretty significant part of my life :-( So, I like the nice and colorful prompt - The hostname of a current machine in green, and the prompt itself in red or blue background (depends on exit status of last command ( Read more... )

Lets assume you just work in a console or in a some other X11 application. You just select something with a mouse and now you wish to search this in emacs. Of course it is very easy - Control/S, Enter, Paste, Enter. But is it nice and convenient? I don't think so.

If you insert the following code fragment in your .emacs file, you can select ( Read more... )

Both gnome-terminal and konsole are pretty nice and very powerfull applications. They support a few sessions inside one window and anti-aliased fonts. And xterm is one of the oldest and ugliest X11 application. This is a citation from Xterm README file:

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here ( Read more... )

Of course you already know the brilliant BASH feature - save the
command history over different sessions. Note that if you don't
(or if you don't know what the hell is BASH), probably you are
browsing the wrong page :-)

The next small code fragment, if placed in you .bashrc file
allows you to save DIRSTACK over different sessions as well as
command ( Read more... )

В чащах юга жил бы цитрус, да но фальшивый экземпляр