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Today my father asked me to send him some things. There were 10 files of approximately 250MB each; too much work to send via email, 2.5GB would exceed my limit on Dropbox, and there was no Google Drive for Linux yet (only via web, meh).

To maintain the standard used in old Teletypes, DOS/Windows uses two control characters to represent a line break, a Carriage Return (CR = 0x0D) and a Line Feed (LF = 0x0A), but Unix-Like systems realized that this was a waste of 1 byte per line and only an LF was enough to represent a new line.

Leaving the computer logged in with programs running is quite routine for me. Uptimes of several weeks are not uncommon. However, leaving X or a terminal open in your absence can pose a security and privacy risk - someone with malicious intent who has physical access to the computer can cause a lot of damage if they find it logged into your account (or worse, as root!

Before migrating to Octopress (and later to Hugo), this blog was written in Wordpress. Every time I posted a tutorial with commands that have options with double hyphens (example: ls --all), Wordpress formatted the two consecutive hyphens (--) as a single dash (—).

Just run the following command: julio@julio-acer ~> ffmpeg -i File.flv -ar 44100 -ab 256k -ac 2 file.mp3 Links http://gnuru.org/article/1549/extracting-aac-audio-flv-file

This semester, I took two classes with a professor who really likes Java. All the content is taught in Java, and in addition, some plugins we use for testing only exist in NetBeans.

Boca Installation Updated on July 19, 2013 Follow the INSTALL.TXT Install dependencies julio@acer ~> sudo pacman -S php php-pgsql php-mcrypt php-gd postgresql Uncomment the following lines in /etc/php/php.ini extension=pdo_pgsql.so extension=pgsql.so extension=zip.

This year I bought the domain juliobs.com and hosting on bluehost.com, so far it only has a copy of my old site, made from scratch in PHP and this blog.

One of the great advantages of Vim over other editors is that it has various visual modes that allow editing text blocks involving multiple lines. Today I needed to delete the characters from column 5 to column 10 of a file that were between lines 20 and 30.

Create the file ~/.pyrc with the following content: $ cat .pyrc # ~/.pyrc # enable syntax completion try: import readline except ImportError: print "Module readline not available." else: import rlcompleter readline.