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Entries from December 2007

Using *NIX top on OS X

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

When I use top, I generally use it to find runaway processes. The default behavior on Linux is to order the processes by the amount of CPU usage that they are taking. On OS X, this is not the case. If you want to order processes by CPU on Darwin’s top, you will need to [...]

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Tags: Linux · Mac

Top Albums of 2007

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Best of 2007 – A list of the best music of 2007 compiled by multiple sources.

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Tags: Linkage

.NET style Javascript Library

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments

.NET style Javascript Library – A neat Javascript library based on the .NET class libraries

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Tags: Linkage

Google Web Accelerator

December 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Google Web Accelerator – Use Google as a proxy (if you don’t mind them knowing where you surf)

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Tags: Linkage

Cross Country in 31 Hours

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Cross Country in 31 Hours – 2,795 Highway Miles averaging 90 MPH, two people drive cross country in a car in an astounding 31 hours and 4 minutes.

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Tags: Linkage

Lets All Go To The Zoo

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Lets All Go To The Zoo – Stolen truck. Check. Bed full of wood. Check. 12-Guage Shotgun. Check.

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Tags: Linkage

Emulating Grep in Powershell

December 6th, 2007 · 11 Comments

Grep is one of my favorite tools to help me find something in a set of files. Since I cannot download Cygwin at work, I have to make due with what I have.
The following is a translation of grep -R “mypattern” *.cpp for Powershell.

gci C:\path\to\files\* –include *.cpp -recurse | select-string -pattern “mypattern” -caseSensitive

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So much easier [...]

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Tags: General