Archive for July, 2007

YouTube Video Downloader

July 13th 2007

This looks like a pretty slick way to download videos from YouTube. I never liked any of the plugins for Firefox, and I’m a Linux/UNIX guy anyway. I also started using kuake so I always have a terminal handy for exactly these kinds of things. I’m excited. I’m weird like that.

youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com

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Learn Python in 10 Minutes

July 13th 2007

Finally a nice quick python ‘tutorial’. And by finally I mean something that just showed up in Google Reader.

Learn Python in 10 minutes | Poromenos’ Stuff

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Who said men can’t multi-task?

July 10th 2007

I love it

scaryideas | Radio Sport: Who said men can’t multi-task?

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Fun With Linux

July 10th 2007

The best command ever. Can be found all over the intraweb

alias sex='updatedb; locate; talk; date; cd; strip; look; touch; finger; unzip; uptime; gawk; head; apt-get install condom; mount; fsck; gasp; more; yes; yes; yes; more; umount; apt-get remove –purge condom; make clean; sleep'

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find + xargs + spaces in the filename

July 10th 2007

So today I had to use find + xargs + grep to search for some things in cygwin, since Windows search is like a hunting dog with no sense of smell. Being Windows, there are spaces in file paths left, right, and center. xargs and grep don’t play overly nice with this.

Originally I had:

find . -name *.js | xargs grep Saving

Which didn’t work. grep was looking for weird things which did not exist. Then I found this link with Google,

find + xargs: how do I handle space in the path – comp.unix.shell | Google Groups

which provided a solution:

find . -name *.js -print0 | xargs -0 grep Saving

A friend pointed out that if there are any JavaScript files in the current directory, .js will get expanded by bash and not work too well. Final solution:

find . -name "</strong>.js" -print0 | xargs -0 grep --color=always Saving

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Fun With PostIt Notes

July 9th 2007

These people covered somebody’s Jaguar with PostIt Notes. How amazing.

Jaguar PostIt Prank

Originally from Digg

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