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Terminal web browsing

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-05

Who would have thought that browsing the web froma terminal would be any good? I certanly would not have beeived it. Not until I was forced to do so myself.

I have a little project going on–more on that later–and that is forcing me to use the terminal. Only the terminal. So without my usual graphical user interface I was forced to improvise and learned how to use Lynx. As it turns out, text-only based web browsing is actually super!

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Purging removed packages

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-17

Removing old packages is something you—or your package manager—does all the time. That does, however, leave an awful amount of configuration files that should have been purged, right? This simple command will purge removed packages:

# dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge

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Stupid thing to do: Run # cleanlinks

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-12

A mindblowingly dangourous thing to do is to run # cleanlinks on / as root on any Debian system. Basically, it inrevertably destroys one’s system by removing symbolic links that should not have been removed.

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Learning bash

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-05-30

I am learning bash from Carl Albing, JP Vossen, and Cameron Newham’s “bash Cookbook” from O’Reilly Media. (ISBN: 978-0-596-52678-8)

Micro-blogging? No, Twitter is not coming my way. I just wanted the world to know that I am finally been conviced to learn the command line-thingy.

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