Less a zip file
Friday, December 16th, 2005Just discovered by accident:
In linux, to display the files packed into a zip file, just run the following command:
$ less file.zip
Just discovered by accident:
In linux, to display the files packed into a zip file, just run the following command:
$ less file.zip
Eben auf 3sat kam ein Beitrag in der Sendung Nano zum Thema Denglisch. Es werden immer mehr englische oder pseudo-englische Worte in der deutschen Sprache verwendet. Sei es im Arbeitsleben oder in der Freizeit. Besonders stark wird das natürlich im Internet deutlich, das von Haus aus schon viel englischlastiger ist, als der Alltag in Deutschland. Ganz extreme Beispiele kann man sich mal auf dieser Website anschauen. :-)
A neat feature in Firefox on Linux is the quick way of finding a website of interest to a specific word or phrase. Just mark a word or phrase in whatever you are reading, open Firefox and middle-/mousewheel-click inside the Firefox window. The website will be opened, that Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search would find.
I can tell you this: the resistance to go jogging is reciprocally proportional to the temperature outside. But resistance is futile in the face of the almighty training plan. Frozen face, darkness outside (already in the afternoon), iced tracks, wet running shoes. Not really fun. But hey! No pain no gain.
With our roof rebuild we decided to take the chance and switch our satellite TV system (LNB and multiswitch) from analog to the digital DVB-S standard. Now I am looking for the best digital satellite receiver fulfilling my (not overly) specific requirements:
Currently I am looking at 3 products chosen by reading many forum entries and product test sites:
Maybe I will find something suitable this week…
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Originally uploaded by Besfred.
This is how the dormer looked like on September 13th. There is another one on the other side of the roof. This can be seen in my other flickr.com photos.
One of the cool things about flickr.com is that it exposes your photos. Aaron found one of mine and liked it so that he used it on his web site about lawn maintenance.
For the last three weeks (my vacation) my family and I had a lot to do. The roof of our house got two dormers like in the picture of the corresponding wikipedia entry but with 2 windows, so its twice the width. I took lots of photos and will eventually upload the best ones to my flickr account.
On a completely different note I read about the Last.FM community / service and created an account (see on the right under Blogroll). The only problem is that I cannot feed it with my music favorites because my home server, which hosts my music collection, is not online yet due to the afore mentioned home improvement.
Without investing any money you can improve the mileage of your car.
All you need to do is adjust your driving behaviour a little. Follow the tips below and save real money :-)
I found a very good webbased time tracker, with the latest en-vogue technology (AJAX, type-ahead).
You can test it anonymously or register for free and get to save your timed tasks.
It is free, webbased (=> data is globally available), snappy (due to AJAX usage), and beautifully designed.
Yesterday the price for one liter of diesel fuel was at an all-I-can-remember-high of 1.169 Euro.
And the crisis in Iran does not help either.
With the basic data of 1 Dollar = 0,8089 Euro, 1 Gallon = 3.7854 Liter, 1 Kilometer = 0.621 Miles and a consumption of 6 Liters per 100 kilometers, that means:
Compare that to the 3 USD in the US. Around 57 percent of the diesel price in Germany are taxes.
Time to look for alternatives.