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Untar a file/folder

Untar a file/folder

tar -zxvf filename tar -C /myFolder -zxfv filename.tar.gz

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Linux basic command: cat, replace, redirect stdout to a file

Linux basic command: cat, replace, redirect stdout to a file

Some  basic: Write Hello into a (new) file called Hello.txt Redirect stout to a file echo Hello > Hello.txt Print to screen every single line of a file (Hello.txt) cat Hello.txt Replace letter ‘e’ with ‘a’ inside a file (Hello.txt) cat Hello.txt | sed s/e/a/…

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Varnish

Varnish

Varnish is my faviourite cache server, here I list bits and pieces on that I’ve picked up when working with this very fast and sparsely documented cache server. Find the least cached URIs To improve your cache hit ratio, the best thing to do is…

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Creating a bootable USB stick with Mac OS X in 10 easy steps

Creating a bootable USB stick with Mac OS X in 10 easy steps

Prerequisites Logged in as administrator Because you are going to use the sudo command, you have to be logged in as an administrator. A non-administrative account will not work. Formatted as FAT32 Start the application Disk Utility (located in the folder /Applications/Utilities/ of your Macintosh HD volume),…

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Set Gmail as Your Browser’s Default Email Client with a Simple Hack

Set Gmail as Your Browser’s Default Email Client with a Simple Hack

Open Gmail in Chrome. Press Ctrl+Shift+J (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+J (Mac) to open Chrome’s built-in JavaScript console. Paste the following into the console and press Enter: navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto", "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s", "Gmail"); Chrome will prompt you, asking if you’d like to “Allow Gmail (mail.google.com) to open all email links?” Click…

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SSH Public Key Based Authentication — Howto

SSH Public Key Based Authentication — Howto

The SSH protocol is recommended for remote login and remote file transfer which provides confidentiality and security for data exchanged between two computer systems, through the use of public key cryptography. The OpenSSH server provides this kind of setup under Linux. It is installed by…

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Booting Operating System from USB Drive in VMware Fusion 3.x

Booting Operating System from USB Drive in VMware Fusion 3.x

There are a lot of how-to guides on the internet to create a bootable Windows7 USB drive. Unfortunately you can’t boot such a USB stick out of the box fromVMware Fusion on Mac OS X. But there are workarounds to get the USB based Operating System booting…

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IntelliJ 10 performance tuning on Mac OSX

IntelliJ 10 performance tuning on Mac OSX

This might help: IntelliJ is my favorite Java IDE ever! It sees dead code you know  I use a Macbook pro 13″ and that is another love. These two things have made me a happy software engineer for the last two years, but… One thing I…

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Add Quick Launch to Taskbar

Add Quick Launch to Taskbar

1. Right click on a empty space on the taskbar, then select (hover on) Taskbar and click on New Toolbar. (See screenshot below) 2. In the Folder line, type or copy the location below. (See screenshot below) %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch 3. Click on the Select Folder button. (See screenshot above) 4. You now have a Quick…

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How to add Tumblr to your Google Buzz feed

How to add Tumblr to your Google Buzz feed

Go to your Google profile and copy down the URL for the page. Click Edit Profile Scroll down to add links and add a link to your Tumblr site and save your profile. (Make sure to tick “This page is specifically about me”) Edit your Tumblr template…

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