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Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web

Posted 06-30-2010 at 01:55 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)

Are you tired of clicking the search box in Firefox to do searches or changing the search engine. Then surfraw is definitely for you. Get rid of the searchbox and use Surfraw.

Surfraw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Surfraw (Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW) is a free POSIX-compliant (ie. meant for Linux, FreeBSD etc.) command-line shell program for interfacing with a number of web-based search engines. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License and written

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REAL Firefox on Debian

Posted 06-29-2010 at 07:11 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 07-03-2010 at 06:35 AM by craigevil

Tags debian, firefox, iceweasel

This is all I do to use Firefox rather than Iceweasel.
1) download Firefox
2) extract to my /home/Downloads
3) symlink plugins by doing:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins /home/craig/Downloads/firefox/plugins

4) open iceweasel with iceweasel -profilemanager and create a profile for Firefox
5) copy my iceweasel profile to the new firefox profile
6) create a text file called Firefox.desktop

my Firefox.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
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Irssi the irc client that rocks

Posted 06-26-2010 at 05:42 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 03-08-2012 at 01:54 PM by craigevil

Tags bitlbee, debian, irc, irssi, twitter

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC, XMPP and ICB protocols via plugins.

Even the dpkg bot in #debian agrees irssi rocks:
<dpkg> i guess irssi is the best <IRC> client ever. "aptitude install irssi" and read http://www.irssi.org/documentation/startup . See also http://irssi.org/documentation/faq. http://www.irssi.org/

Simple easy script to setup irssi for you: Irssi Config Generator http://www.matthew.ath.cx/programs/irssiconfig...

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Howto get Adobe Flash working in Debian amd64

Posted 06-22-2010 at 01:52 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 09-12-2010 at 08:10 AM by craigevil

Tags 64bit flash, amd64, flash debian

As most people are aware Adobe has stopped support for Flash on 64bit, no one knows for how long. Do not use the 64bit flash beta, it has major security problems.
Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux

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We have temporarily closed the Labs program of Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux, as we are making significant architectural changes to the 64-bit Linux Flash Player and additional security enhancements. We are fully committed to bringing native 64-bit Flash Player for the

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Neat sysinfo script for IRC

Posted 07-09-2009 at 10:01 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 07-10-2009 at 11:22 PM by craigevil

Tags debian, inxi, irc, sysinfo

inxi" is (#1) http://www.inxi.org, or (#2) as root: cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc techpatterns.com/inxi && chmod +x inxi, or (#3) now in debform ---> wget ftp://cathbard.com/binary/inxi*.deb

$ inxi -F
System: Host craigevil Kernel 2.6.30-1.dmz.1-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (HT) cache 1024 KB flags (sse3 nx lm) bmips 5593.87
Clock Speeds: (1) 2793.256...

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