A long, long time ago I was interested in boxing and boxing training. I created a tool that was useful to me, but realized it would be useful to many people, for many things. Free Workout Timer This free workout timer was originally developed for timing boxing rounds, but after having received user feedback and several good ideas implemented, can be used for: Boxing…
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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…