Sébastien Barbieri's blog

I’m quite new to mac’s world, but I’m quite old from linux… So here is my short note about python on macosx Install the XCode 3.0 additional disk that came with Leopard Install macport set in your profile (/Users/yourname/.profile) the following lines export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH export DISPLAY=:0.0 export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man/:$MANPATH export EDITOR=vim Install port python (with django): [...]

I’m just wondering why port list *mysql* is so slow. It just do exactly the same than port list | grep mysql but need 5x more time.

in Terminal > File > Preferences change the following keyboard settings: Home: \033[4~ End: \033[1~ PageUp: \033[5~ PageDown: \033[6~ To write \033 just press ESC button, for [ it’s MAJ+alt+5 and finally for the ~ it’s alt+n then do not forget to assign the default value to this particular settings format update: or use iTerm

I tried xen… and I failed, so… here is a good tuto: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM basically: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-virt-server ubuntu-virt-mgmt + a linux iso ready

They finally decided to use jQuery instead of their own ajax framework… and this is one very good decision taken by MS dev team: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/jQuerytoshipwithASPNETMVCandVisualStudio.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/10/10/october-10th-links-asp-net-asp-net-ajax-jquery-iis.aspx Next step… a real templates system ?

If you are new to red-hat EL here is a small cheat sheet link list. up2date how to: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-up2date-command/ apt-get, yum how to: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Finally_a_good_how_to_FAQ_about_rpm

First check your open port with netstat -lnptuw to see which service are listening. Then check what’s really open to the outside world with iptables –list. try nmap -P0 from the server and from the outside world, it should reflect what you learned from the 2 previous command. Then install sudo and clean up the [...]

or how to change the grub menu to use the good disk. When you install ubuntu-eee on a SD card, the default option is to put the MBR on the default hd0 which is the Windows disk… but what if you still want to use windows by default and ubuntu when you really want to? [...]

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