If you wanted your diff output to be colored you have three options
Use a verison control program that outputs colored diff output
git diff --color=always old-file new-file | less -R
note: Mercurial does not allow you to run its hg diff outside of a repository
Use a text editor …
I broke my computers internet installing wicd.
Check the interfaces
$ ifconfig
Check eth0 explicitly
For whatever reason, my eth0 wasn't showing up until I explicitly specified it.
$ ifconfig eth0
Get an ip address
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100
Connect to the outside internet
sudo route …
I wanted to export a virtual machine and send it to a customer. However when I exported the OVA file, it was a massive 12GB. I have exported this virtual machine before and normally the ova is 2GB.
First, I check to see if some log file has …
Allow incoming:
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
Allow outgoing:
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A …more ...
mkdir /tmp/tl cp timelapse*.jpg /tmp/tl/
Resize the images to a certain size. (Optional):
for i in *.JPG; do echo -e "$i...\c"; convert "$i" -resize 1920x1080 "$i"; echo done; done
Create …
Recently I purchased a domain to replace my no longer free subdomain provided by dyndns. I wanted to redirect all of my content from the subdomain to my new domain. Easy. However, I also wanted the root landing page to display information about the move rather than simply throwing …
I had originally typed up these instructions in a gist for my personal use but in case they are useful to you:
Change directory to virtualenv:
cd /path/to/virtualenv
Download node:
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.29/node-v0.10.29.tar.gz
Set prefix variable:
export VPREFIX …
I found eog to be too slow at rendering pictures for my purpose. I wanted to make feh (a commandline based image viewer) my default.
Try and figure out how to change default.
but I couldn't find feh listed as an option
Edit feh's …
This document will include the author's entire notes on installing and configuring ldap for django.
Create a directory in /opt:
mkdir /opt/that
Create a virtualenv in that directory:
virtualenv example
Make sure that you also source the directory before running pip commands. i.e.:
source /opt/that …