Got my new box up and running this morning! Had a little detour last night when a good friend stopped by and we proceeded to drink beers and talk about technology and Japan (which usually turns into quite long discussions)! But we are up and running now and she is purring like a kitten! »Read More
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Blender 3D
One of the things that I hope to do this year is to really learn Blender 3D. I have dabbled with Blender in the past, but never really created anything that I was particularly proud of (or even really wanted to show anyone). In the past year or so Blender has gone through some major revisions, and with everything that is currently going on with Blender (Cycles, OceanSim, Motion Tracking) I can’t think of a better time to get caught up! »Read More
Cups and Windows 7 without SAMBA
Unfortunately I can’t use Linux everywhere, and work is one of those examples. My work laptop dual boots, but it has to be in Windows 7 most of the time sadly. This makes sharing the printer a tad bit more complicated, and everything I saw told me I had to use SAMBA to share a CUPS printer. Why? Isn’t CUPS a server? Finally after searching around I found a solution that worked, so I wanted to share it. FYI, this all assumes you already have CUPS up and running.
It’s actually pretty easy, but uses the registery editor in Windows 7 so be careful! »Read More
ZSH
So I have been using zsh for about a month now instead of bash, and I have to say I really like it. The auto-completion is nothing short of amazing considering what I have been working with, and the fact that it corrects commands as well is really useful (especially as I tend to think faster than my fingers can type). Highlighting strings when doing grep searches is also a nice touch, and adds to the ease of use. And telling me when something fails on a nice new line, perfect!
Another strong feature that I want to highlight is the git plugin. This was included in the oh-my-zsh repository (see below) and is a very useful feature if you use git for version control. It’s kind of hard to explain how it works; but it tracks your git repositories for uncommitted changes, tracks branches, etc. Here is some sample output from my project2501 repository:
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Fixing “terminal unknown” errors when ssh’ing around
Something I’ve run into quite a few times is the stupid “terminal unknown” error message when ssh’ing into remote servers. It doesn’t happen all the time, but it is very noticeable to me when it does happen, since I use ‘clear’ a lot, and I can’t when this error crops up.
There are essentially two fixes for this, one quicker than the other, and one better than the other. After the break I will go over both fixes so you can get rid of these annoying messages.
