Let’s say you have a single file (a mysql dump) containing the output of multiple database backups… and you want to split them out into individual files. Input fil: # MySQL dump 7.1 # # Host: localhost Database: Purchase_Tracking # … Lots of CREATE TABLE and INSERTS … # MySQL dump 7.1 # # Host: localhost Database: Test # … Lots of CREATE TABLE…
Rarcrack is an open source rar file password cracker. Use it when you’ve forgotten the password you put on a rar or zip file. The current version (0.2) doesn’t work flawlessly on Ubuntu, so follow these steps. 1. Download the source: wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/rarcrack/rarcrack-0.2/%5BUnnamed%20release%5D/rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2 2. Un tar tar -xjf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2 3. Change directory cd rarcrack-0.2 4. Type make, hit enter. You will likely receive an…
Scribd is a great service, offering PDF downloads of a variety of content. Unfortunately there is an ugly 8 digit (random?) number prefixed on each file downloaded. 47432750-Book-Name-Whatever.pdf 47501680-Another-Book-Name.pdf 47502885-Yet-Another-Book-Name.pdf It’s not descriptive, and it makes alphabetic sorting of the files downloaded impossible. Here’s a small BASH shell script that will remove the first 9 characters (8 digits and the – character) from all…
One of the great features of the iPhone is the ability to load PDF files into the iBooks application… why lug paper around when you can have a huge amount of reading material right on your phone? One of the challenges of this is that many freely available materials come as 1 chapter per PDF file: Linux Device Drivers is just one example. The…
Turnkey Linux offers a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) appliance – an ISO or VM to install or create a pre-configured Linux based web server. The install is very streamlined offering minimal bloat, as well as many other advantages: pre-installed and configured applications, text GUI configuration on initial boot, configured for automatic updates, based on a Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu. However,…
About git Git is a distributed version control system that is easy to use and free. I will describe the use of git with Xcode on Mac OS X for iPhone development. Because git is distributed, each client has a full copy of the repository. This results in great performance in most situations involving the management of source code files. Installation A disk image…