Migrated to Linux and still under the process of recreating an enviro where I'm as productive as I was on Windows. Almost there with Git. Still got to find a simple yet rather complete graphic editing tool to replace a SUPER old version of Paint Shop Pro. So far my go-to solution is photopea.com

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WordPress Upgrade Script

If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using. < View plain text > code #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE="http://yoursite.com/blog" echo Updating Wordpress in $CURDIR echo…

What Chmod ? Symbolic to Octal Notation Perl Script

Have you ever "ls -l" a file or directory, watch its "-r-x–s-wT" symbolic notation and ask to yourself: "what the hell is that chmod ?". This was the case for me several times today, so before I spent 1 minute on thinking about the notation, I decided to spent 5 minutes on a quick Perl script. What Chmod converts those…

How To Display UTF8 in your Putty Bash Shell

I was having a few reading problems on a server I've recently got my hands on: the locale is set to something like French UTF8, but Putty was displaying annoying é and stuff instead of accented characters. I was expecting the solution to be something linuxish like read boring man pages till I finally decide it's not worth the hassle…

The Live CD List: List of Live CD Linux distributions (180 and counting !), that boot and work right from the CD player without installing anything on local drives. Excellent stuff to bring Linux everywhere with you, I've personnaly tried Knoppix and MandrakeMove, very impressive.

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