Recently I needed to send a script to one of my co-workers from the server. One way to do that is copy the script using scp to my PC and send it as usual. But there is a more efficient way to do that with mutt: $ mutt -s “Subject” -a /tmp/file.tar.gz your@email.addr < /tmp/message-body.txt I hope that all parameters are understandable. So, having mutt […]
Keep your mobile phone book online!
Once Alexey suggested me to use online service Mobical to store info from my mobile phone. I didn’t start use it immediately. But recently I decided to try it. It’s really cool and useful service. Once registered there you can synchronize phone book, calendar, tasks and other stuff from your mobile phone with your online account. Moreover, it’s possible to export your contacts as vCard-file […]
Case for Nokia770
Recently I found this nice leather case for Nokia770. Sure it has its own metal cover but maybe this case will be also appropriate for all Nokia770 owners. It’s just $38.99.
Track your time with myhours.com
To take stock of your working time try myhours.com. It’s simple but power on-line application allows to create project, assign some task to it and add a time spending to resolve the task. The myhours.com has clear interface without some web 2.0 features but quite enough to store and get working time. It’s possible to generate report based on project or dates, build some charts, […]
Keep your notes online
Since we’re using Internet actively we try to move our stuff on-line. Here is a list of seven web-based applications to store notes on-line: Google Notebook mynoteIT Notefish Notezz! Stikkit Yahoo! Notepad Zoho Notebook At the beginning I tried to use Google Notebook but I found it too complicated and uncomfortable for such simple task as storing notes. The second was Notefish. I still use […]
A day without X
Here is an interesting experience of using console applications only. As you may see everything can be done without GUI: Web Browsing: Elinks, Lynx, Links, or w3m. Email: Mutt. Chat: Freetalk, Naim, IRSSI. Reading RSS: Raggle. File Management: Midnight Commander. Text Editing: VIM and Emacs. Viewing Images: ZGV. Watching Video: Mplayer and VLC. Playing Music: Cplay. P2P: RTorrent. Window Management: Twin. Personally, I use VIM […]
Site update
I moved to the new hosting last week. It was difficult a bit because the hosting has a good graphical interface but extremely pure shell. I prefer do everything related with my blogs via shell because it’s much faster than GUI. But in that case I spent some time to dump my database back (via GUI it took a lot of time with my home […]
Improve Your Perl Programming
Brian Foy – the author of Mastering Perl and one of the famous perlmonks, wrote an article on the ONLAMP where described five ways to improve Perl programming: Cleaning up your code – I also hate to read unformatted code -without tabs, proper style etc. Use configuration – sure, my favorite module – Config::General. Logging – log4perl should be used in all your applications. Persistence […]