Kill unresponsive applications on Linux
Sometimes things go a bit wrong. Sometimes they go very wrong. XKill is a simple little application that allows you to kill a running X application that has got out of kilter. Think of this as a quick...
View ArticleDisplay external RSS feeds on your WordPress blog
Show another of your blogs or any other RSS news feed on your WordPress blog with this simple template code.
View ArticleHighlight author’s comments on WordPress blog
A simple trick to make comments form the original post author stand out a bit more in the comment listing - useful for seeing replies to comments.
View ArticleDjango AJAX threaded-comments using only jQuery
Upgrade threaded comments using mptt to allow AJAX submission of comments and update the template - without any backend hacking of Django. Everything is accomplished via Javascript and template tags.
View ArticleFind all files containing a given string
A quick one-liner to recursively search files for a given text string.
View ArticleInstall Haiku under Mac OS X with Virtualbox
Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, development began in 2001, and the operating system...
View ArticleControl memcached from the command line
memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal but now used by many other sites. It is often used to speed up dynamic...
View ArticleCustomize directory colors
You can use the command ls --color (or an alias) to show directories with colours for folders, files, links, etc. However, you may not realise these colours can be easily configured using bashrc and a...
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