2014-08-02 – I’ve since got this covered:
- dir.sh
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dos-style-dir.sh for old stuff.
Linux
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The simple way to reproduce this is:
\mkdir source \cp source target
It’s a pretty simple request. I want to copy a directory. I want to copy and not create the directory. I don’t want any of the contents (cp -r), I just want the container itself, without using mkdir. I don’t want to diddle around with the contents of the directory (moving them around) and then do cp -r. I want to copy the container because I want to match the permissions. I don’t want to separately use other commands to sync permissions:
\chmod --reference=source target \chown --reference=source target
Why can’t cp do this? Oh right, it’s GNU .. so it sucks.
Midori >
(The version of Midori was not recorded)
The first glance is that this isn’t a real project because it doesn’t have a real website. But then again, it doesn’t have a stable release yet, so I don’t mind at all.
Overall it’s decent, but it lacks a couple of fundamentals which would prevent my using it as an everyday browser. The fact that it is better with Flash really gives it a niche use.
Tested 2009-08-07 on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha1.
https://github.com/brandt/symlinks
Mark Lord’s ‘symlinks’ utility.
Scans directories for symbolic links, and identifies dangling, relative, absolute, messy, and other_fs links. Can optionally change absolute links to relative within a given filesystem. Recommended for use by anyone developing and/or maintaining a Linux FTP site or distribution or CD-ROM.
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Well, I got schooled with all kinds of bootloader and install issues I was having with Unity Linux 0.99-alpha2.
Boy did I get into trouble. I took three pages of notes before I finally managed to scrap 0.99-alpha2 and get 0.99-alpha1 working again.
It’s mostly a problem of my lack of understanding too. I’ll need to take another pass at the whole affair after reading some advice I got. I know how I’ll do things differently next time.
I hope to get into it later this week, although docs are a higher priority at this point since I’ve left things on auto-pilot for a while.. i.e. nobody was doing anything.
I had speed issues, as well as anomalies on the background images of some websites, like http://slackware.com/. Most annoyingly was the horrible hanging in the visual editor when making a new post in WordPress. This is using Slackware 12.2 and either Firefox 3.0.11 or 3.5.1, with or without safe mod.
Here’s how I solved the issue.
I went way out of my way to comb through all of the settings of msec to make sure things are to my liking. However, my preferences have been overwritten by a default for the second time!
This really pisses me off to no end. The one thing whose configuration is amazingly important to not screw up.. gets screwed up.
I strongly suspect this was done by PCLinuxOS updating.
I take sick pleasure in discovering a fundamental flaw in my programming and tearing it all down to rebuild it again.
I finally got around to testing the Firefox 3.5 betas since beta 4. It’s only been 8 days and I’m now using my fourth version.
