http://brett.benders.net brett bender's oblogitary - all the cool kids have one... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:29:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the shell prompt, I want to directories in a path to act like words, so that I can kill them one by one. So I added to my .zshrc WORDCHARS="${WORDCHARS:s#/#}" which takes the value of WORDCHARS, removes slash, and assigns back to WORDCHARS. I could also hardcode a literal value like: WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>' but ... http://brett.benders.net/2008/07/25/zsh-wordchars/ I was tired of staring at an LCD all day while it is sunny and blue skies outside. To tide me over until vacation, I downloaded some landscape photos and scripted my wallpaper to rotate randomly. /home/brett/bin/random-wallpaper #!/bin/bash DIR=$HOME/Pictures/wallpaper WALLPAPER=$( ( for i in `ls $DIR`; do     echo $RANDOM $i   done ) | sort | ... http://brett.benders.net/2008/06/25/random-wallpaper/ I need to test our application in our supported browsers, including both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. Also, some of the extensions that I use don't yet work with FF3. We can sandbox the 'foxes (and their settings, extensions) by creating distinct profiles and wrapper scripts to run each version of ... http://brett.benders.net/2008/06/20/firefox-2-and-3-dual-install/ Wilmer has the fix for rxvt-unicode popping a little yellow box full of ticky-tacky when I hit CTRL-SHIFT. Tweaked instructions, with my preferred package: apt-get source rxvt-unicode sudo apt-get build-dep rxvt-unicode cd rxvt-unicode-* perl -pi -e 's/--enable-iso14755/--disable-iso14755/g' debian/rules dch -n 'disable iso14755' fakeroot debian/rules binary sudo dpkg -i ../rxvt-unicode_*.deb http://brett.benders.net/2008/06/19/rxvt-unicode-yellow-box-be-gone/ Setup: Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, Firefox 2 I installed the Sun Java 6 plugin via the Firefox plugin finder GUI, but applets still didn't work. Viewing about:plugins did not list Java. I tried a good swift kick to the package manager: sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts Still no joy. The trick turned out ... http://brett.benders.net/2008/06/19/ubuntu-firefox-2-and-sun-java-plugin/