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How to get the most out of your creativity

Posted January 25th, 2008 by Nik
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Get the most out of your creativity

Image courtesy of Campin' Guy

This post is about how you can get the most of your creativity and your creative mind

Beeing a fan of Apple's Macintosh computers, I had a conversation with a very good friend. Why is a Mac better than a Pc in multimedia, video/audio proccessing, graphic design, 3D animations etc ?

My friend provided the answer.

"Pc's and Mac's are the same" he clamed.

"You can use photoshop here and photoshop there, there is no difference at all"

You are right I said, Photoshop is the same. But think also of the other capabilities and featurees a Mac has.

Without any thoughts my friend answered "Well on my pc I can get the best software for image, video, audio proccessing I need. Why should I buy a Mac?"

 So without having any strong argument I answered him with an example.

New Look new features new answers

Posted January 22nd, 2008 by Nik
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New Look new features new answers

I am very proud to announce you that I Got Answers has been updated and renewed.

The migration from Wordpress to Drupal was a real challenge, but as you can see for yourselves I have survived ! :-)

A few tags were lost but the posts and the comments are in their places. There are now new features installed, like the quick question form in your right side. There you can ask your question and submit it directly to me.

Also I've installed features like voting on my answers (that will come in the future because I have not answers yet).

What do you like on my new site ?

Posted January 22nd, 2008 by Nik
I love the new look.
50% (3 votes)
I like that it's broader.
17% (1 vote)
The easy way to ask a question.
0% (0 votes)
The new features.
17% (1 vote)
I don't like it.
17% (1 vote)
Total votes: 6

Linux shell useful commands

Posted January 3rd, 2008 by Nik
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Command Description
apropos word Show commands pertinent to word.
which command Show full path name of command
time command See how long a command takes
time cat Start stopwatch. Ctrl-d to stop.
nice info Run a low priority command (info in this case)
renice 19 -p $$ Make shell (script) low priority. Use for non interactive tasks
look reference Quickly search (sorted) dictionary for prefix
grep --color reference /usr/share/dict/words Highlight occurances of regular expression in dictionary
gpg -c file Encrypt file
gpg file.gpg Decrypt file
alias hd='od -Ax -tx1z -v' Handy hexdump. (usage e.g.: hd /proc/self/cmdline | less)
alias realpath='readlink -f' Canonicalize path. (usage e.g.: realpath ~/../$USER)
set | grep $USER Search current environment
ls /usr/bin | pr -T9 -W$COLUMNS Print in 9 columns to width of terminal
touch -c -t 0304050607 file Set file timestamp (YYMMDDhhmm)
cd - Go to previous directory
cd Go to home directory
(cd dir && command) Go to dir, execute command and return to current dir
pushd . Put current dir on stack so you can popd back to it
gzip < /dev/cdrom > cdrom.iso.gz Save copy of data cdrom
mkisofs -V NAME -r dir | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz Create cdrom image from contents of dir