Category: Software Development

Sometimes I write about WordPress, Software Development, Linux, or other really geeky stuff.

Nvidia Display tool incorrectly wrote xorg.conf

My xorg.conf file was improperly written by the nVidia xserver configuration tool today, and wouldn’t you know it, it was when I had just gotten to the Airport and didnt’...

/ April 8, 2011

Using .bashrc aliases to save time

As a developer there are actions I do over and over that can be quite repetitive in the CLI. Some of these commands require specific flags to be set or...

/ April 7, 2011

Patching 32-bit .deb for 64-bit

I’ve been finding lots of .deb packages that are compiled for 32-bit OS’s that don’t have 64-bit versions available. While this may not be the most elegant solution, it’s been...

/ April 4, 2011

Find and move all of one type of file

I was doing a little organizing of my home directory and needed a quick way to move all of my .pdf files into my Documents/PDF folder. It’s where I keep...

/ April 2, 2011

Quickly emptying a file

So I was messing around with getting a few logging systems setup for a web app I’m writing and after a while these log files started to grow in size...

/ April 1, 2011