Tag Archives: geek

Removing ._ Files From Mounted Drives

Here’s a quick snippet of goodness to remove those annoying ‘._’ files that Macs generate on mounted drives… cd [wherever you want to clean] find . -name "._*" -exec rm ‘{}’ \; -print

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Creating Users on a Linux System

It’s been a while since I’ve had to do any basic sysadmin stuff on a Linux box… seeing as I had to google the answers to this I thought I’d better write them down! useradd syntax useradd [options] {username} Useful … Continue reading

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Add Git and SVN Branch to Bash Prompt

EDIT: (12-Mar-2010) slight update to the svn prompt code to give a better / more useful output… I’ve seen things like this posted on the net before but never really had a chance to play with the idea. But as … Continue reading

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Some People Have Waaay Too Much Time…

This is one way to get your perfect coffee fix… If you’re both a coffee- and gadget-freak, this project by DIY’er Tim Hirzel will probably be a notably inspiring hack. By combining a fancy-pants Rancilio Silvia espresso machine, the multi-purpose … Continue reading

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COD4 Is Awesome!

Late to the game as always, I finally got onto COD4 last night. Oh. my. god. This game is frigging awesome! I had no idea what I was doing half the time, and spent most of the night watching replays … Continue reading

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Quake 3 for the iPod Touch/iPhone

I somehow managed to miss this one. Quake 3 running on hacked iPod Touch’s! They keep making it harder and harder to resist an iPhone/iPod Touch… Future generations will most likely divide the timeline of history at this point: when … Continue reading

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Gears of War 2 - November

This has officially just made my day! Microsoft has officially announced that the Xbox 360 sequel to the popular shooter Gears of War will launch in November of this year. Much of the Xbox 360’s first year success was dependent … Continue reading

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HP 2133 UMPC

Engadget are running a story with pics for HP’s answer to the Eee PC. It does look quite sweet, but no details of the full spec or final price as yet. If they could pitch this about the same price … Continue reading

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Stephen Fry on the Eee PC

I really like the Eee PC - some people at work here have them, and if I could get it past the wife, i’d happily have one! Seems like the well spoken geek Stephen Fry is quite a fan too: … Continue reading

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SPARQL Graduates to W3C Recommendation

I watched a presentation on this about 18 months ago at a conference and it looked pretty interesting - some good potential applications in the scientific field. Glad to see things are progressing. “The W3C just gave SPARQL the stamp … Continue reading

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