Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Do you know ZSH?

I previously used Bash for scripting but now prefer ZSH. I've developed my own set of primitives so for instance

> cp NF ND

Will copy the newest file in the directory to the newest sub-directory.
NF & ND are global aliases (global means can be used any where in command line)


alias -g ND='*(/om[1])' # newest directory
alias -g NF='*(.om[1])' # newest file

zsh has many wonderful features, a small number are listed here:-

http://www.successtheory.com/tips/zshtips.html

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Wonderful Self-Powered External Hard Drives

Sometimes technology is wonderful. As one who has suffered over the years with trying to store data and programs on floppies, recordable Cd's & DVDs that never quite had enough space or corrupted, the advent of the USB connectable external hard drive has been a blessing. But now they've gone one better with USB-powered Hard Drives, these make it a breeze to backup data or transfer files. I bought this one (see below) from Amazon . It is so light that when it was delivered I thought the box was empty!!

Saturday, January 12, 2008

The Problem with Newbies

If you sell eBooks on eBay it can be very frustrating to deal with Newbies who hardly understand copy and pasting or what a Zip is. On the other hand Newbies are great customers. Well I've just found a great site to help them

Click www.newbie.org . In future just send your newbies to this great site you'll be happy and better they'll be happy

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