Wine, the Windows emulator-that's-not-an-emulator for Linux distributions, has a way of maintaining separate Windows systems using the WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH environment variables. While it's a powerful mechanism, it's not so handy to …
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A quick shell script for wine prefixes
Tags:Resilient Ubuntu boot-to-RAM USB stick
Tags:(Ubun2RAM) - Updated for 13.10 I love my little-engine-that-could media server machine. It runs incredibly well on hardware from at least two generations ago; it is completely headless; the entire system loads itself into RAM in the form …
WordPress plugin minify Makefile
Tags:While working on my first commercial WordPress plugin, the need for build automation finally struck me. The environments in which I do my most development are all driven by Linux, and so I wanted to use a tried, true, and ubiquitous build …
Using cURL for parallel PHP without pcntl_fork
Tags:So, you want to do some parallel processing in PHP (alliteration FTW!), but your service provider does not grant you access to the pcntl family of functions*. What do you do? If you're in a *nix environment with access to the curl command …
Kill all shared memory segments in Linux
Tags:See update below. I recently whipped up a shell script to kill all (IPC) shared memory segments in Linux for a client on oDesk. He wound up going with another contractor's offer, and so I figured I would post my script here for the …
Send XMPP messages with Perl (from the command line, too!)
Tags:I had been looking for a small, simple utility for Windows that could send XMPP messages from the command line for use in various automated tasks and notification processes. I came across sendxmpp as part of the CygWin installation, but …
Help! I can't delete phpMyAdmin's setup.php
Tags:I've got a VPS server running Debian 5 "lenny" and recently attempted to perform several software upgrades to bring it up to speed (it had been longer than I care to admit). However, the upgrade for the phpMyAdmin package …
Backup automation and emailing attachments in Linux
Tags:Any programmer who's ever been burned by data loss can tell you—you've got to have backups of your work. If it's code, perhaps they use a version control system such as Subversion. If it's something a little less-readily available, such …
Linux: Get size of sub-directores in current directory
Tags:Edit: Now that I'm more familiar with the Linux command line, I realize that I was trying to reinvent the wheel. I don't know if I missed this part of the du manpage or what, but the functionality I was looking for is baked in: du -hd 1 …