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Music on Fedora
I got the Eraserheads ‘The Reunion Concert’ CD from an officemate for Christmas. I promptly burned it to my hard disk using Soundjuicer.
The tracks got saved as FLAC, which unfortunately is not usable for iPods, and I had to convert it to MP3. Fedora, by default, does not include non-free plugins. To convert the [...]
Run X apps on Windows
At work, I connect to remote servers through SSH. Sometimes, I use Hummingbird Exceed to forward X and xterm sessions to colleagues. Hummingbird is not only proprietary, but also prohibitively expensive, so I use the open source alternative at home: XMing.
In PuTTy, I enable X11 forwarding in the config (Connection > SSH > X11). In [...]
Quick directory switching
At work, I do a lot of directory traversal: going from one location to another within the whole (global) filesystem structure. So, to conveniently go back to a previous directory, I use pushd and popd, aside from the usual cd:
$ pwd
/home/iandexter
$ pushd /etc/sysconfig
$ pwd
/etc/sysconfig
$ popd
$ pwd
/home/iandexter
You can even echo $DIRSTACK to list the current directories [...]
Remote desktop through SSH
I sometimes telecommute. And when I badly need some files on my office desktop, I can connect remotely through the company’s SSH gateway and tunnel RDP to my desktop. Here’s how:
Using PuTTY, create a new session for the SSH gateway.
In Connection > SSH > Tunnels, add a new forwarded port: the source can be an [...]
Writing a custom init script
It’s been a long time since I did a source tar-ball install. But the production servers at work require that applications that are not part of the standard install base (from Kickstart/Jumpstart and VMWare images) should be compiled from source. It was a very refreshing experience.
So after going through the usual configure; make; [...]
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