CouchDB views are more like CREATE INDEX than SELECT: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9237735
Static netcat .exe files
Today we are going to create static .exe binaries for netcat.
While there are many ports and reimplementations of netcat, we are going to stick with win32 ports for netcat 1.11 or netcat 1.12 (the latter one enables sending CRLF line endings instead of...
Cheat sheet for Kindle Terminal
If you plan to run Linux on Kindle, using this terminal emulator with Kindle Keyboard, I drew up a cheat sheet for you:
How to convert a batch of wav file to mp3 files
If you do not want to convert .wav files to MP3 format by hand and you have only Windows prompt on your hands, together with a ffmpeg.exe (look here), the command to run is
for %f in (*.wav) do ( ffmpeg -i "%f" -q:a 2 "%~nf.mp3" )
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Solving locale problem on USB armory
Should you encounter the error message
need UTF-8 locale (LC_CTYPE) but have ANSI_X3.4-1968
for example, when running tmux, you should do following steps to solve the problem that causes it:
uncomment the appropriate locale in the /etc/locale.gen fi...
Mode switcher for USB armory
USB armory is a flash drive sized secure computing device with an ARM processor. You may purchase it with a micro-SD card, on which a Debian is preinstalled. The preinstalled configuration enables a network connection from the host device. But should y...
Utility for removing duplicated files for Windows
If you would like to remove duplicated files working in Linux, you use fdupes utility. But what alternatives do you have, if you are working in Windows?
Meet Duplicate File Finder and Remover (by Winston McMiller). It works in PowerShell, which nowaday...
Credentials for SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick
If you would like to connect to SanDisk 16 GB Connect Wireless Stick via external IP address, you will be asked for access authorisation. The credentials the stick wants are owner/wi-fi password
Print default values of CLI arguments in Python
If you would like to print default values of command-line arguments and if you use the argparse.ArgumentParser class in your Python program, consider setting the formatter_class option to argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter.
Example code:
argparser ...
An old German folksong
And now something about ethnomusicology.
Three years ago, I was at a party. At one point the host requested an old folk song, "Tief im Tannwald ein Vöglein...", and I liked it very much. After recording it, I set out to discover more about it.
In rec...
Wincent Balin
Treading on waves…