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Emacs file and directory browsing Emacs has Dired, a great method for browsing directories; especially in combination with ido-mode, I prefer it to Windows Explorer, OS X Finder, Gnome Nautilus, or anything else I’ve used over the decades to browse file systems. You can quickly begin entering paths, and Dired helps you with directory and file name completion. As you browse directories, emacs lets you bookmark any path you may visit again. A very cool feature of emacs is the wide variety of shell-based modes: shell, term, interactive SQL, version control, recursive grep, and more. When you are looking at a Dired buffer and invoke any of those commands, the shell is started in the directory you are looking at.
Emacs Power: remote servers and shell commands
Silent Way's Guide to Rental Housing in Tight Markets And Y
Silent Way's Guide To Rental Housing in Tight Markets And Your Credit Report - here's how to make it suck less - It's nearly impossible to find an affordable place to live in cities with tight rental markets such as San Francisco and New York. There are not enough places, and too many people looking. The prices of rental units in SF skyrocketed throughout the late 90's, and the vacancy rate plummeted.
See the SSHErrors page for resolving SSH related errors, and SSHKeys for information about setting up SSH key logins. Config file aliases To ease your life, you can put all settings for a particular host in your .ssh/config . Say you would normally use the following command to connect to somewhere: ssh me@some.long.winded.fqdn.name.here.com
SSHNotes - Waikato Linux Users Group
GAIM: Connect and Use Google's Gtalk Servers - Tech-Recipes
This tutorial will quickly walk you through connecting to the Gtalk servers with GAIM. I like the idea of Gtalk and the integration into the rest of Google’s suite of programs. For example, I like that I can keep my IM logs in the Gmail account. However, I do not really like the Gtalk program itself. I like the service, but not the program.
The $40 hidden inside a 12V battery
Silver Oxide lasts longer than Alkaline. Well made Lithium (properly refined) last much longer than Silver Oxide. Good Lithium cells last about 8x longer than Alkaline Very few button batteries (by type/size) are made with lithium. That WILL be an improvement, and it will come, RSN.TIP: Google Analytics 404 error page
Advanced 404 Not Found Error page usage with Google Analytics . This makes it very easy to diagnose and keep track of 404 Error messages from within google analytics. Enjoy! NOTE: You will most definately want to check out and use the Google 404 Error Page .
For millions of people Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine. But instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page after page of results, there are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient. Some of these are obvious ones, that you probably know about. But others are lesser-known, and others are known but not often used.
20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches - Dumb Little Man
Getting a Better Haircut Tip 1: Know how to spot a bad haircut. Two of the haircuts below are bad, one is flawless. Here's what's wrong. 1) In the first photo, there is a visible line between the clipper section and the section that was cut with shears and the neckline is blocked crooked and too high. Blending is poor and the cut looks uneven. 2) In the middle photo, there is a highly visible line in the side of the haircut.
Getting A Great Haircut
How-To: Automatically back up your computer
We've seen plenty of crazy ways to keep your precious data safe. Some people burn a few tons of DVDs, others make a montly habit of swapping hard drives into a safe location. In today's How-To we'll show you how to automatically keep your data backed up from your computer with ssh and rsync. Feel that? That's our warm comfy safe-data blankie. Check it out.
Finding Custom Search Engines
Google doesn't provide a way to find custom search engines built by other users, but you can restrict a normal Google search to the homepages of those search engines. You just have to add [site:google.com inurl:coop/cse] to your query. For example, you can use [ site:google.com inurl:coop/cse css ] to find custom search engines for CSS.Here are bits of code and even a few complete programs you might find useful. Of course, I'd like to hear of any errors you find or corrections or improvements you make. The code here makes up a library of routines that I use frequently. None of them are as good as libraries provided by other sources but they are free, they seem to work with any ANSI C++ compiler, and they seem to work well with each other. is a program to make population genetic inferences from multilocus probe data.
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Introduction The BIOS is that dark, cavernous pathway to your computer's very soul that both beckons and repels the would-be performance seeker. The BIOS can open up major performance pleasure for you, or it can hide that one little pesky setting that's causing your daily bluescreen, and you just don't know why. If you royally jack your BIOS, you can toast your system to the point which you may need a system reinstall or some new hardware. Don't get me wrong--it's not as though it's all that easy to do major damage to your system via the BIOS. It's just a good idea to know what you're playing with and not change things around willy-nilly.