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I've written a relatively simple tool in python for hosting file directories on a remote server. Temphost lets you quickly deploy some files to be hosted on a server, without installing software on that server. Here's the code Usage Supply the required command line arguments for the server, and the …
This is a cautionary tale about how so much time can be lost when you forget the most obvious solution. Today I had one of those "it'll be so easy" ideas. I use the program calcurse to organise the events and TODOs I have to remember. I also use the …
Disclaimer I'm just some person who has figured this out for their own personal use. If you're going to use any commands listed here, make sure you understand them yourself and that they work on a test case before using them on any "real" files. TL;DR Backup: sudo rsync …
The Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64 was recently successfully decompiled from MIPS (VR4300) machine code and reverse-engineered to source code by the n64decomp team. Now you can create a byte-for-byte copy of the Nintendo 64 ROM from source code! However, this still requires a copy of the original ROM …
Or: Eternal Sunshine of the Dotless $HOME (Update 2020-04-27): All code shown here and more is up at https://github.com/superluserdo/fake-home I'm fed up. Despite being around for years, the XDG Base Directory Specification is still not being followed by default by a huge number of programs. This …
So I recently got a (minimally used 2nd hand) original HTC Vive. Consider this post a dump of some of the problems I ran into when getting it to work, in the hopes that it's useful to someone (including future me). Note this advice is from January 2020 and may …
If you have any experience at all using the Vim text editor, there's one key that you'll know is essential to use it - the escape key. It allows you to go from insert mode into the all-important normal mode, and edit text like some kind of computer wizard (not the …
If you are newish to managing Linux, and bought a Raspberry Pi to play with, you might notice (or not) that you're not prompted for a password for the account pi for commands that require sudo . If you'd prefer to enter a password for security reasons, you just need to …
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