commandline

I find myself Google-ing for command-line fu a lot more than I should, here are some favourites… rsync with ssh Although this should be the default by now, really, who trusts the defaults? Manage it yourself with something like this: rsync -avP -e "ssh -i ssh_key_file -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" /home/jas/local-dir/* remote-user@webhost.com:/home/server/www/yourdomain.com/ Rainbow Shell Prompt Put this in .bashrc or wherever is appropriate for your OS: export PS1="\[$(tput bold)\]\[$(tput setaf 1)\]\u\[$(tput setaf 208)\]@\[$(tput setaf 3)\h\[$(tput setaf 2)\]:\d \[$(tput setaf 4)\]\@:\[$(tput setaf 55)\]\w\n$PROMPT_COLOR\$ \[$(tput sgr0)\]" YouTube-dl on Linux Obtain it from here: https://github....

Did you know that all of your images contain a bunch of metadata? This is mostly harmless. But actually some of the metadata is not harmless. Dianne Feinstein, an American, famously said, post-Snowden, that “Our courts have consistently recognized that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in this type of metadata information and thus no search warrant is required to obtain it”. Yikes! Also, note that the EFF have thoughts on fingerprinting of digital cameras, printers, CD ROM burners, and MAC addresses in routing devices....