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minTTY: A usable terminal for Windows

April 12, 2011 less than 1 minute read

From time to time I get re-bound to an operating system that’s not my favourite: Windows. This time it’s in the Windows 7 incarnation. OK, I have to admit th...

wget, cookies and other biscuit problems

January 22, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I recently had the problem that I wanted to call a URL from a shell script and thought that wget might do the job. The site requires authentication so I tho...

Bash: loop over all lines of a file (the right way)

January 21, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I have to admit that I’m a candidate for the Useless use of cat award sometimes.

Suppress column names on MySQL command line output

January 20, 2009 less than 1 minute read

I use the MySQL command line interface regularly to fetch some data from a DB. Usually I want to have to column names as well, but if you want process the ou...

MySQL command line return values and Bash scripting

January 20, 2009 1 minute read

As I already told in Suppress column names on MySQL command line output I use the command line interface of MySQL quite often. Especially if you want to do s...

Convert a text file from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

January 15, 2009 less than 1 minute read

From time to time you stumble upon the problem of character encodings. You get a file in encoding A, but prefer it in encoding B.

Eine interessante Alternative zu browsen

February 2, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Ich bin zufällig auf Jeremy Zawodnys Old School-Beitrag gestoßen. Naja, irgendwie habe ich doch die Möglichkeiten von E-Mail total unterschätzt. Allein Rich...

DNS, SPF, Hotmail und der ganze Rest (Teil 2)

January 22, 2008 less than 1 minute read

Wie vermutet (oder angedroht?) gibt es den zweiten Teil der SPF-Geschichte. Der erste Teil hat es ja schon vermuten lassen, es geht weiter. Ich habe jetzt ...