michfield

Find out which mouse button is which with:

xev | grep -i button

On my mouse, 6 and 7 are Back and Forward buttons.

Then add this lines ~/.xbindkeysrc

## Logitech mouse Back and Forward

michfield

Disable Alt+F1, Alt-F7, etc, because I need them in Double Commander as shortcuts. Read more: http://askubuntu.com/questions/126817/how-to-disable-alt-f1-alt-f2-shortcuts

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings panel-main-menu "[]"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings begin-move "[]"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-down  "[]"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-up "[]"

This should be executed only once. It's remembered forever.

michfield

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Install MySQL server
#
# Author:
#   Colovic Vladan, First Beat Media
#

download_dir=/srv/tmp/download
download_url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/191471/FirstBeatMedia/mysql-5.6.11-debian6.0-x86_64.deb

michfield

Using variables, also called repeated nodes in YAML, but in JSON variant of YAML format. I'm using this for the whole subtree. Great!

{
  "original": &VAR
  {
    "x": "Value x",
    "subtree":
    {
      "y": "Value Y"

michfield

Recursively convert text files from DOS to Unix line-endings
Type in Windows command line:

for /r "miscellaneous" %x in ("*") do @dos2unix --d2u --verbose --skipbin "%x"

michfield

How to change Start menu button keyboard shortcut in Linux Mint?

Linux Mint has something called MintMenu button that has a functionality similar to the Start button in Windows.

To define keyboart shortcut for this button, we need to right-click on the MintMenu button on the panel and from the dropdown to click on Preferences. Change the keyboard shortcut there.

Log out and back in, to see effects of changes made.

michfield

Batch file vagrant.bat sets both GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH environment variables. It would be nice of him to restore old values after finishing it's work.

Something like:

:: Save variables
SET "GEM_HOME_SAVED=%GEM_HOME%"
SET "GEM_PATH_SAVED=%GEM_PATH%"

michfield

:: Make --no-ri --no-rdoc default gem install options (without documentation)
:: Possible variations:
:: For every user:
::    echo gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc > "%PROGRAMDATA%\gemrc"
:: Only for you
::    echo gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc >> "%USERPROFILE%\.gemrc"
::
:: Note: In Windows, %PROGRAMDATA% is /etc on Linux
::
:: But finally, the best way to do it. See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7662245/1579985

michfield

:: Download ZeroMQ for Windows [Installers for Microsoft Windows](http://www.zeromq.org/distro:microsoft-windows)
:: Use only 32bit install, even on 64bit Windows and only 2.2.0 version (not 3.x)
:: Make sure you're not using the 3.x beta version of zeromq - you must use the official 2.x libs

ZeroMQ-<whatever>.exe /S /D=c:\tools\zeromq && echo ZeroMQ for Windows installed

:: DLL must be renamed
copy c:\tools\zeromq\bin\libzmq-v100-mt.dll c:\tools\zeromq\bin\libzmq.dll

:: Install Ruby Gem zmq

michfield

Bash / Clone all GitHub repositories of a user

See my GitHub API current rate limits:

curl -sI "https://api.github.com/users/cookbooks/repos" | grep "^X-RateLimit" Any left? curl -sI "https://api.github.com/users/cookbooks/repos" | sed -nr 's/^X-RateLimit-Remaining: (.*)$/\1/p'

Or even simpler:
curl -s "https://api.github.com/rate_limit"