The fastest and more efficient way to batch multiple files encoding conversion : vim +”argdo se fileencoding=utf-8 | w | bnext” +”q” ` find . -type f -name “*.rsp” ` +”argdo” : execute the following vim commands for each file (filencode, save and next buffer) +”q” : quit after last one find : get all
If you have some files that you need to have in your repo but don’t need to have updates, git allows it : git update-index –skip-worktree <FILES> Then a “git status” won’t show those files until you do : git update-index –no-skip-worktree <FILES> To show the skipped files : git ls-files -v . | grep ^S –skip-worktree
When I switched to ZSH, and letting BASH behind, I missed some behaviour : one of them was the ability to quit my terminal while some jobs are still alive. In ZSH, I get a message like this if I exist with running jobs : zsh you have running jobs If I exit again, my jobs are
To code with php, no need to install apache and other dependencies, especially as php has a builtin web server. apt-get install php5-cli Then use php -S localhost:4444 and you’re done.
Add in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini gtk-shell-shows-desktop=0 Remove all entries in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs but let this one : XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/” If you remove this too, each time nautilus is launched, it will create a ~/Desktop folder. Remove folder Desktop if it exists
Side note : Microsoft has dropped support for IE8 last april 2014 🙁 There are still some clients that want their webapp to work perfectly on IE8. They can’t make all their clients move to the newest browsers. But some times, it can drive you nuts to achieve simple things. Our problem was about a background image
With the Web Speech Api, some good javascript libs and several lines of code, you can easily add speech recognition in your web application. All is done thanks to AnnYang JS lib made by Tal Ater, plumbing with Angular Light by Oleg Nechaev and served by a Go http server. (By the way, I love opensource community
When you’re not on the ‘Desktop Environment‘ side and rather be in light linux config, you have to deal with annoying little problems. I’m using DWM as my tiled window manager and loving it for years. It’s fast, flexible and fun. My linux desktop is up and running after a few seconds… (ok, thanks also
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Forget large background image for your web site. Now, comes video time. So you want to put a nice video as background of your site but don’t know how to do ? “Fear you must not” said Yoda as it’s really simple. First, have a look at the effect in action. Nice, isn’t it ?