Monthly Archives: December 2008

Finding and deleting duplicate files

I needed to remove all duplicates In a collection of hundreds of thousands of files. I first came across this, which generates a script with commented out rm statements, but I quickly found another tool, fdupes, which made life a lot easier for me; I didn't want manual control. I just wanted to have all the duplicates deleted, except one of them. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on December 28, 2008, at 18:12 | 1 comment

Images not showing after upgrade to MediaWiki 1.13

When I upgraded two of my MediaWiki installations[1, 2] a while ago, images were no longer being displayed. I found out that this was due to some problem with a change to the image.image_name column. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on December 27, 2008, at 19:12 | 1 comment

My quest for the ultimate Bash prompt

On my new laptop (a Lenovo T61) I was still using the default Gentoo prompt in Bash. This was kind of a shame since my last Gentoo installation (on what is now my sister's Ubuntu machine) had a beautifully customized prompt. It was time to dig up the old escape codes. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on December 05, 2008, at 00:12 | 3 comments

GNU Screen window captions as XTerm tabs

XTerm is my favorite terminal emulator and I love GNU Screen. So, imagine my joy when I found out that Screen can persistently show window captions ([Ctrl+A]: caption always). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on December 04, 2008, at 22:12 | 4 comments