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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Essay: Why does failure inspire some and demoralize others?

« Last post by housetier on November 27, 2008, 05:49 PM »

I think "challenge" is the key.

If you face a challenge you can overcome it or fail it. So if someone never failed, they either are superhuman or have never faced a challenge.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Proxy / Tunneling ???

« Last post by housetier on November 22, 2008, 01:27 PM »

If you can login into that other computer via ssh, you can use it as a proxy without needing to install any additional software - such is the might of ssh. :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Proxy / Tunneling ???

« Last post by housetier on November 22, 2008, 12:55 PM »

fictious logo for gnu screen here

My solution needs several things:

• ssh
• screen
• shell-access somewhere

When my laptop starts it automatically executes the following command:

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screen -S irc_tunnel -d -m /home/housetier/bin/irc_proxy.sh

the shell-script contains only two lines:

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#!/bin/bash
ssh -D 2048 -l housetier somehost.somewhere-on-the.net

After this I can tell my program (xchat in this case) to use localhost:2048 as a SOCKS5 proxy.

Of course I needed to enable password-less login on the target host. This setup works quite well, thanks to the powers of ssh.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« Last post by housetier on November 19, 2008, 05:58 PM »

oh wow, I hadn't even heard about comm(1) before.

It reminds me of tac(1) which does the same as cat(1): it prints the contents of a file line by line, but in reverse order.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: free new resource / showcase website for indy developers

« Last post by housetier on November 19, 2008, 08:20 AM »

I like the idea :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Want to add a subtle embossed watermark to a couple hudred photos

« Last post by housetier on November 19, 2008, 08:11 AM »

I exclusively use imagemagick to manipulate a batch of files.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 46

« Last post by housetier on November 15, 2008, 05:52 PM »

very good! thanks

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 46

« Last post by housetier on November 15, 2008, 06:15 AM »

Where is the source for #14?

(and how do make links that won't open a new tab/window?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: easy backups on linux: timevault

« Last post by housetier on November 13, 2008, 09:06 AM »

ATM I cannot open that page, it seems the server is down or has other problems.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Intro

« Last post by housetier on November 13, 2008, 09:00 AM »

I am in and I already know what to make!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« Last post by housetier on November 12, 2008, 06:02 PM »

Using "diff" would have been my first suggestion also.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lessons from 2 years without Windows

« Last post by housetier on November 12, 2008, 05:58 PM »

Lesson from more than 2 years without Windows: "and yet it works".

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Developer's Corner / Re: F# (Ocaml) looks like a killer language on paper. Opinions?

« Last post by housetier on November 11, 2008, 12:17 PM »

oh I didnt know that. nice to know, I use unison every once in a while

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Developer's Corner / Re: F# (Ocaml) looks like a killer language on paper. Opinions?

« Last post by housetier on November 11, 2008, 05:25 AM »

mldonkey is written in ocaml, it is a P2P program that supports several P2P protocols. I used to use it a few years back because it was very light-weight. Maybe it can serve as an example what is possible with ocaml.

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Mozilla FireFox Extensions/Addons / Getting Started Easily

« Last post by housetier on November 10, 2008, 08:58 AM »

Extension Wizard is very helpful
After a couple of days I finally could make an extension work. This was only possible with the help of the Firefox/Thunderbird Extension Wizard.

fill the form, download the zip, it works
I filled in the required fields, and some others as well; checked a few checkboxes, i.e. "Use Unix line endings"; and finally clicked "Create Extensions". I extracted the downloaded zip file to my Development directory on my desktop and updated the development profile for firefox according to the included readme.txt. When I started firefox with the development profile, the extension was installed and I actually saw results! 

coming next
This is a huge step forward for me I'll next play around with the current code to get a feel what does what. And eventually there will be a shiny "hello donationcoder" extension for FF3.

Hopefully the wizard will help others too.

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Living Room / Re: How to figure out which is dying, my screen or my graphics card

« Last post by housetier on November 09, 2008, 06:02 AM »

Have you checked the cable?

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Living Room / Re: Request for suggestions: Group Bookmarking Tool

« Last post by housetier on November 08, 2008, 06:48 PM »

diigo has been mentioned before in this thread and now makeuseofus compares diigo to delicious, maybe it has one of the features we want.

however, I cannot check it properly atm, yet I didn't want this to go unnoticed.

Perhaps this assignment from the programming school will lead to a proper group bookmarking tool for us :-) (and zillarank rocks!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by housetier on November 08, 2008, 03:55 AM »

PIDA claims to support any versioning system.

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Developer's Corner / Re: XULRunner - XUL & JS For Desktop Applications

« Last post by housetier on November 07, 2008, 07:47 AM »

I tried to run that simple xulrunner application also, but failed. There is something b0rken in my Linux-System: https://bugs.launchp...nner-1.9/+bug/295151

Let's when it'll be fixed.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45

« Last post by housetier on November 06, 2008, 07:08 PM »

This just made me donate to Ehtyar 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend a keyboard

« Last post by housetier on November 06, 2008, 10:18 AM »

actually I was looking for a keyboard that has the numeric keys on the left for a long time. thanks for the hint, KamyKaze

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General Software Discussion / Re: multi string search in file

« Last post by housetier on November 06, 2008, 07:15 AM »

if I understood the man page correctly this will work partially:

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grep --color=auto -f needle haystack

where needle is your second list (the stuff to look FOR) and haystack is your first list (the stuff to look IN)

like so

housetier@reliant:/tmp$ cat haystack
aaaa
bbbb
cccc
dddd
eeee
ffffff
eeee
bbbb
housetier@reliant:/tmp$ cat needle
aaaa
eeee
xxxx
housetier@reliant:/tmp$ grep -f needle haystack
aaaa
eeee
eeee
housetier@reliant:/tmp$

After asking for help in the #c-base channel on freenode, we came up with this:

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grep --color=auto -C $(wc -l < haystack) -f needle haystack

which looks

like so

housetier@reliant:/tmp$ grep -C $(wc -l < haystack) -f needle haystack
aaaa
bbbb
cccc
dddd
eeee
ffffff
eeee
bbbb

This solution is completely free

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Living Room / Re: Old workhorse C64 breaking new barriers...

« Last post by housetier on November 06, 2008, 05:55 AM »

iirc we will have a c64 party in January on board our space station, however this has not been booked. There have been talks and general agreement on both sides, but no deal has been struck yet.

I think it'll happen though. So if you are in Berlin in January, check our calendar to look for this party.

I'll be there myself because I like c64 music (chiptunes in general).

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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!

« Last post by housetier on November 05, 2008, 04:02 PM »

I write poems, they just cost a few pennies for pretty-printing and the recipients usually are move to tears :-)

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Living Room / Re: The eyeballing game

« Last post by housetier on November 05, 2008, 06:59 AM »

omg I was so bad: 24.20

but I must say, I needed 3 "things" to figure out how to work it, and a complete round to understand what was asked of me.