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HOWTO recover deleted files on an ext3 file system

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:20:38 +0100

HOWTO recover deleted files on an ext3 file system

How to Efficiently Use Irssi and Screen

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:20:26 +0100

Stop wasting my screen real estate!

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:01:00 +0100

Quick rant: I really dislike websites that want to determine how wide my screen should be. Suppose I’ve got a 24” widescreen, what do you think I’d like more: actually using this screen, or having an 800 pixel-wide column in the middle surrounded by nice gray? Hint: if I wanted the latter I would go read some whiny livejournal blog. And I dislike those.

Update: It appears that even LJ doesn’t do this tall tapestry thing anymore. Good riddance!

"That’s really the sign of a good name, in my opinion: that it might be mistaken for a PGP..."

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:25:08 +0100

“That’s really the sign of a good name, in my opinion: that it might be mistaken for a PGP key.”

- Tycho

My new bike. Detail shots on Flickr.

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:00:30 +0200

My new bike. Detail shots on Flickr.

anti-iphone

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:49:53 +0200

I’m finally part of the ~~hippest~~geekiest crowd, since today the intriguing web of… well… intermediates delivered my (company’s) OpenMoko. Finally. I’m hacking on it, shirtless, as you’re supposed to do. What? You haven’t read early MegaTokyo?

We party hard

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:05:22 +0200

< zwane> giel: i'll try and throw up in the sink
< giel> zwane: i have a separate toilet for that
< zwane> a special ralph bowl?
< giel> yes.

txtor

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:39:21 +0200

txtor: If you have problems downloading torrent files due to proxies (either transparent or not), try this!

I'm a hipster

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:53:10 +0200

In a Starbucks in downtown Vancouver, I’m having a grande pumpkin spice latte with whipped cream and a lemon blueberry scone. And blogging about it. On my MacBook. (that last part is not true)

Random bikers during this year’s amateur tour version of...

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:12:20 +0200

Random bikers during this year’s amateur tour version of Liège-Bastogne-Liège through the village of Lorcé. I really enjoyed myself during the 235km of this kind of roads. Yes, this is a not-so-subtile hint that I rode 235km by bike through the Ardennes this weekend.

Recoding

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:43:55 +0200

Recoding for mp3 players (just so I don’t have to remember this):

for i in *flac; do flac -d -c "$i" | lame -h -c --preset standard - "`basename "$i" .flac`.mp3"; done

Hobbies

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:55:23 +0200

wat was er ongunstig vorig jaar trouwens?
dat we zo ongeveer op het meest bijeengepropte sutkje camping stonden.
niet echt last van gehad verder
ik kon niet eens met bier in de rondte gooien

Official translation

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:45:05 +0200

The Dutch translation of payment gateway is either “betalingsloket” or “betalingsportaal”. The former is used in communication with an end user, the latter in technical communications.

AideRSS

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:11:21 +0200

AideRSS: Filtering of RSS feeds to only get the interesting stuff.

why Linux has failed on the desktop - kernel developer Con Kolivas

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:04:53 +0200

why Linux has failed on the desktop - kernel developer Con Kolivas

Bash-fu

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:49:56 +0200

To put the track number in front of the filename of a bunch of songs, based on the order in a playlist:

j=1; for i in `cat playlist.m3u |grep mp3`; do echo mv "$i" "`printf %02d $j` $i"; j=$((j+1)); done

(make sure you don’t have spaces in the filename or that your IFS is set to only newline, by doing IFS=””)

There are probably nice tools to do this and it can be done based on the ID3 tags if they’re present, but this works just as well.

"That’s it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!"

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:16:11 +0200

“That’s it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!”

- Homer J. Simpson

Maruku: a Markdown-superset interpreter

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:45:40 +0200

Maruku: a Markdown-superset interpreter: I’m going to use this for my next never-ending project.

emo

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:36:35 +0200

< giel> i forgot :(
< zwane> :(
< giel> i suck :(
< zwane> obiwan: giel <-- :(
< giel> obiwan: :((
< obiwan> why u hate urself :(
< giel> mood: angsty :(
< zwane> music: Blue October
< giel> apt-get install ruby :(
< obiwan> ruby is for emo people?
< giel> ruby is for people who hate themselves
< giel> i'm going to blog about this :(

"The day I stop crying myself to sleep over the free software community is likely to be fairly..."

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:34:55 +0200

“The day I stop crying myself to sleep over the free software community is likely to be fairly closely associated with the day when we think OMG-a-girling is even more embarrassing than the fact that there are so few women involved to begin with that someone might think they needed to point it out.”

- Matthew Garrett