Mind Download: January 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Forgot to use screen or nohup on a command?

Let's say you run a command that is taking much longer to finish executing than you thought it would, and you have to go home. Here's what you do:

1. Press ctrl + z on the terminal to suspend the command.
2. Run: bg to move the last suspended program in the background
3. Run: jobs to list programs running on background
4. disown %1 to pick job #1, %2 if it's the second job on the list. This will mark the job so that SIGHUP is not sent to it if the shell receives a SIGHUP.

Note: Thanks to my buddy John Eckersberg for showing me this today :-)

Friday, January 22, 2010

rpmrebuild-2.4-2.fc12 is out!

The newest update to rpmrebuild has hit the Fedora 12 repo tonight. The new features are:

add -l / --list-plugin option
add -5 / --md5-compat-digest option
Requires rpm-build

Enjoy!

AS

Firefox 3.6 on Fedora 12 (remi repo)

Remi has published a Firefox 3.6 RPM for Fedora 12.

In this screenshot, I'm using one of the new features of FF 3.6, personas. Learn more about it.

I've also installed a couple of new plugins:

Flagfox, displays the flag of the country in which the server you are hitting is located.

Weave Sync, synchs bookmark, history, tabs and passwords of your Firefox... I don't recommend synching passwords personally.

A feature that I personally enjoyed is the 'built-in' extension recommendations for Firefox. It's a nice quick way of playing around with new extensions to expands the browser's capabilities.