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Two Saturdays ago, I bought the Wireless Apple Mightymouse. Very nice looking, but I find it much harder to use than the MacBook's touchpad. Basically the problem is the acceleration, there's no way to set it up without external utility: usboverdrive, steermouse, about $20 each. While you can adjust mouse acceleration in any decent OS, [...]

I'm working on different projects, and every project has its own requirements: jvm, eclipse version (with specific plugins), tomcat version, ant version, etc... Initially I was modifying manually the ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile settings, commenting and uncommenting sections. But this process doesn't scale: it's error prone, your shell profile settings quickly becomes unmaintainable, etc. etc. So [...]

I just installed iTerm and I'm quite enthusiast. It's not easy to configure, but it has everything needed. Cool prompt, with iTerm dynamic title I don't like the default prompt provided in OSX. So I want the more familiar (for ubuntuers) "user@hostname:/current/work/dir$" path. The following one also keeps the terminal title updated with the current [...]

Recently I was implementing a web services client to integrate two different systems. To track problems and report bugs, I found quite useful to have scripts invoking the server to verify the response and reproduce the issues. I wrote a set of bash scripts that run isolated and I used them to prototype and verify [...]

My Dell Inspiron 8600 is now too old to run the Ubuntu Desktop, so yesterday I installed Xubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10. The Xubuntu Xfce desktop is very nice, and seems quite faster compared to gnome Ubuntu desktop: it still misses some facilities, like dragging and dropping icons from the menu to the desktop and the [...]

I always need it, and I always forget it. How to recursively search files containing a given string on unix: grep -r "TABLE_NAME" . --include=*.sql Written here for future memory. Windows users have the dog performing searches, unfortunately it's not a smart one.

Forcing fsck on next reboot $ sudo touch /forcefsck $ sudo reboot Merging PDFs $ sudo apt-get install pdftk $ pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf file4.pdf cat output merge.pdf Formatting USB disks/memories mkfs -t vfat -V -I -c /dev/sdb -n LABEL eject /dev/sdb Fixing Oracle Repository GPG/PGP Key Error The error (in Synaptic or during “apt-get [...]

Like the Firefox Browser at least one Gnome Terminal window is always open on my desktop. So it’s very convenient to have a command line math calculator. “bc” (bc – An arbitrary precision calculator language) is a real language to do calculations. But you can also use it to do simple and practical things at [...]

I’ve updated to Ubuntu 8.04. It worked fine. Only I notice some little annoying problems. One of them is that the gnome-panel keeps freezing quite frequently, possibly due to the extreme unreliable network we have in our company. Anyway to solve that I fount that following command works: $ pkill gnome-panel It makes the gnome-panel [...]