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Like, some paintings are done with just a brush and some black ink on a white page but manage to conjure up a whole world... Anyway imho blues is complex and interesting. The subtle melodic nuances of the blues scale, accent, syncopation... "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.&quo...

Exotic teas: Something made from the droppings of a caterpillar that eats tea leaves. (There's also that "kopi klewek(?) from the droppings of a civet cat(?) that eats coffee berries.) 冬虫夏草 Totally weird thing that's an insect in winter and a plant in summer... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co...

Thanks wux, some code in there I'll probably lift... Memorable but strong passwords have been an problem for everyone I guess. (I've got pages of random passwords written down, so if a burgular got physical access and figured out what they were for I'd be done I suppose.) Some people suggest pass se...

@joe ... I guess there must be an awful lot of music you hate, in that case.

Generally, I like music to the extent that I can hear echoes of the blues in it...

Still, The Grill's a pretty open place. Room for more than one ghetto-blaster.

Sri Lanka black tea every morning With pidsley on this. Ceylon tea is perfect for breakfast - dark, full-flavoured and quick-brewing. A pot every morning gets me awake, after a fashion, but I get by without coffee, or much other tea for that matter, the rest of the day. FWIW how I make (Ceylon, or ...

@Her Pink - Jeg var i Danmark 2~3 måneder (Sønderborg i Als), 1973(?) but that doesn't mean I understood a word of that TV programme. The guy with white hair had a face that reminded me of Denmark though. Swedish Elk looked pretty tasty! @baconslicer and that pork belly looked deleriously good, righ...

...in Pompei there are probably graffiti complaining about the street traders during Saturnalia...

It's already 0:45 in Japan so I get to be the first to say it - Happy Christmas everyone!

I'm not a Christian btw so any believers in other religions, please accept this as a generic wish for Peace on Earth and Happiness for All Beings.

^pretty impressive

Just had a thought - you might consider using 'select' ('help select') for choosing the printer. Something like this?$printer now holds the printer name.

The last 10 or 15 years there has been a bit of an influx of Chinese from the mainland, and quite a few somewhat authentic Chinese restaurants appeared in Nagoya. Even so, they tended to adjust their food to appeal to Japanese tastes. The other day we heard of a place just a short bike-ride from whe...

Just a question of style, I guess, but you can reduce the number of times 'echo' is called by using more linebreaks inside quotes. eg Thiscould be this

Another bash history tweak - make an ~/.inputrc file and put this in it: "\e[A":history-search-backward "\e[B":history-search-forward "\e[C": forward-char "\e[D": backward-char Now you can type the start of a command and press the up arrow to search history fo...

but the first since the moment just before you said it

^me too of course.
I'm the first to jump in to let someone know they don't need to pipe into a new subshell, which is probably equally negligable in real system cost...

HISTSIZE=10000
HISTFILESIZE=10000
RAM=500MB
I sometimes use 2 or 3 terminals at once.
As I said, no noticable slowdown since syncing history. On a mains-powered desktop that extra unnecessary processing when running a command is not really costing me anything I guess?

OK thanks.
To be honest, I haven't noticed anything running slower sice adding that history-synching code. Simple commands return pretty much instantaneously as before. Of course they might be taking an extra two or three milliseconds.

Is zsh more bloated than bash?

"the overwhelming majority of the most active users of GitHub ... were white guys" - how could anyone know that? I don't recall registering my sex or colour at Github...

I have this in my .bashrc to synchronize history over multiple bash instances, but can't remember (and didn't note down) where I found it: # append to the history file, don't overwrite it #shopt -s histappend ### synchronise the history between all bash instances: history(){ syncHistory builtin hist...

So Abe's a Linux user! http://tokyo.s-abe.or.jp/abe_top.jpg.org (He's still an idiot and a raving military-nationalist though.) This image seems to be in a forgotten corner of his website. If you open http://tokyo.s-abe.or.jp you just get a server-generated list of files, mostly dated 2004. Note als...