Here is a list of my current aliases in Linux. Some short cuts I use to make my life easier.

[code lang="perl"] alias cd..=’cd ..’ alias ctar=’tar -czf’ alias en=’su -’ alias etar=’tar -xf’ alias ht=’df -h’ alias l.=’ls -d .* –color=tty’ alias la=’ls -al –color=tty’ alias ll=’ls -l –color=tty’ alias ls=’ls –color=tty’ alias q=’exit’ alias sdriver=’dmesg | grep’ alias ses=’ps auxw | grep’ alias ver=’rpm -qa | grep’ alias vi=’vim’ alias which=’alias | /usr/bin/which –tty-only –read-alias –show-dot –show-tilde’ alias xrar=’rar x’ [/code]

Which ones do you use?

Following a procedure outlined in episode 21 of the photoshoptv.com podcast or more accurately vidcast. The above picture was provided from the website in order to follow the tutorial more accurately.

Don’t you just love technology… I do.

I know everyone is doing this, so here is my list of Mac OS X Apps that I can’t live without.

• Quicksilver, to see more before you download it go to The Apple Blog Quicksilver Tutorials Round-Up article.
• Growl, system wide notifications. Fantastic. Especially with GrowlTunes.
• Mail with Mail Tags, tagging your e-mails.
• Firefox, probably the best browser ever.
• Adium X, a multi-protocol IM client.
• Skype, the best way to talk to your friends online.
• Cyberduck, a free ftp client.
• Video Lan / VLC, for all your video needs.
• Photoshop, because it’s photoshop.
• TextWrangler, for editing files.
• Transmission, for downloading torrents.
• Backup form apple, I don’t know what I would do without it.

That’s all for now.

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

   network.http.pipelining
   network.http.proxy.pipelining
   network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

   Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

   Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
   Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
   Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like “30″. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

Just managed to do tar.gz archive using the command tar -czf archivename.tar.gz foo where foo is the file or folder to be archived. Now the only problem is I don’t really know if it’s the right way :). Anyway as long as it works…

Update: code changed to tar -czf archivename.tar.gz foo after comment from Leonid.

I found this excellent tip in Leonid’s blog and he found it in Ovid’s LiveJournal. I am posting it here as well because I think that the more people find out about it, more people will use firefox.

And if you use Firefox, here’s a tip that many don’t seem to know about: keywords.

Let’s say that you’re constantly searching images.google.com. Go there and type a search for “daisies” and bookmark the resulting page. Then, goto Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks and select the bookmark you just saved. Ricght-click the bookmark and select Properties (or Edit -> Properties from the Manage Bookmarks menu). In the resulting dialog box, you can edit Name, Location, Keyword and Description. The Location will look something like this:

[code]http://images.google.com/images?q=daisies&btnG=Search+Images[/code]

In that URL, find the word you searched for (daisies, in this case) and replace it with %s:

[code]http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&&btnG=Search+Images[/code]

Then, type images in the keyword field. Click OK.

When you’re back at the browser, you can now just type images followed by what you want to search for and you’ll go straight to the google images page for that. Try it with images puppies, for example. This technique will work for just about any site where you can search.