As an Arch Linux user I am pretty fond of pacman, the distro's package manager. However, it lacks the functionality of listing packages sorted by their installed size. Such a listing would be useful when freeing space on your hard drive, for example. Here is my try on writing a bash one-liner that generates the desired list. More…
Column manipulation
Posted by – November 8, 2009
On the Linux command-line, columned data is used frequently. For scripting purposes, knowing how to manipulate this type of data can come in quite handy. This article lists some common operations and gives examples on how to do them. More…
Why does OpenOffice open my document read-only?
Posted by – November 6, 2009
You might be one of the people wondering why OpenOffice nowadays gives you a read-only document if you open a file from the internet. Maybe it even prevents you from editing it. Here's a solution to that, accompanied by an explanation. More…
Tune your guitar using the command-line
Posted by – November 6, 2009
Sometimes you need to get your guitar back to standard pitch, but you don't have a tuner ready. Fortunately, you can also tune with style using your linux command-line! More…
Hello and welcome!
Posted by – November 6, 2009
If you're reading this, the website is up and running. So what's this all about, you might ask? Read the about page to find out! Anyway, I should be writing helpful articles right now, so please forgive me the short intro post.