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Tag Archives: Utility

The best Git client ever: Tig

It is so simple and powerful enough too, what a wonderful client: Tig. – via Atlassian

Making irssi refresh work with tmux

The first time you try using irssi with tmux you might notice that on screens larger than 40 rows the refresh functionality does not work. This is a known not-really-an-issue tmux requires a particular term and is quite clear about it in the docs (if you read them I did not). Found the solution here, [...]

OldChromeRemover

OldChromeRemover removes old copies of Chrome that are doing nothing but wasting disk space on your Windows machine.

Rebootable Programs in Racket

Here is how to do it courtesy of TonyG.

Configuring VNC on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop Over SSH Before Logging In Locally

My goal was to log in to the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop desktop, over a SSH tunnel, using VNC, before anyone was logged into the desktop itself. This scenario occurs because although you may share your desktop over the built in “Desktop Sharing”, you may need to restart the system, and after rebooting you are [...]

XMing X Server for Windows

Check out this beautiful X Server for Windows: XMing. It “just works” so well; up and running in about 30s with Putty.

Nice SFTP Server for Windows: KPYM

Check it out here. It is free and open and donations are recommended.

Useful Image Conversions

My placeholder for image conversion commands mostly with ImageMagick: Resize without quality loss: convert -resize 50%% -quality 100 %1.jpg %1s.jpg

A Radiator Booster

Check it out here. Looks like a great way to be more efficent, and warm.

Capturing all output in MS-DOS

Seems like there is not a single example out there showing how to run Tomcat in MS-DOS and capture all of its output. I sure didn’t know how, and don’t remember the post that told me. catalina run > ..\logs\console.log 2<&1