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The command show the log of a branch, stopping the output at the time of branch creation.
apt-get install cmatrix cmatrix-xfont wmctrl transset-df
Need to restart computer for mtx font to work
Commands while cmatrix is running:
1 - 9 = Change speed
SHIFT + 1 - 7 = change colors
Q = Quit
Tested in Ubuntu 10.04
Install twistd first with
sudo apt-get install python-twistd-web
only works for freeBSD where ports are installed in /usr/ports
credit to http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks
you should choose proper color to make comments invisible.
This is a bit to bit copy so if you have a 500GB hard disk it will take a long time even if have Gigabit Ethernet
There's no need for ls or grep; printf is builtin to most modern shells
Numbers are less understandable then words. Also this may put out a different result.
Doesn't use shuf, its much faster with "shuf -n4" instead of sort -R
This is a better way to do the "src X or dst X" filter; plus you might not want to bother with DNS lookups (-n).
Opens the current working directory in the user's preferred application using freedesktop.org's xdg-open.
How to show the system properties of a Sun VirtualBox server
Wgets "whatismyip" from checkip.dyndns.org and filters out the actual IP-adress. Usefull when you quickly need to find the outward facting IP-address of your current location.
First column is number of photos, second column is the focal length.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack/files/pdfcrack/pdfcrack-0.10/
For debian and ubuntu :
sudo apt-get install pdfcrack
xargs is a more elegant approach to executing a command on find results then -exec as -exec is meant as a filtering flag.