Handy tip for starting the Debug Console in Linux

[Diziet Sma]

Excellent.. looks like you're all set.

[CommRLock78]

I like those ls aliases, by the way, very cool. Did you come up with those Diziet ?

[Diziet Sma]

<chuckles> I wish!

No mate.. none of that .bashrc is my own work. As I said, it's just the bog-standard (default) .bashrc file. It's been that way for years.

[CommRLock78]

<chuckles> I wish!

No mate.. none of that .bashrc is my own work. As I said, it's just the bog-standard (default) .bashrc file. It's been that way for years.

I thought I'd ask since those ls aliases looked custom .

Well, I installed virtualbox 4.2 and - openSUSE VM is connected to internet - for the first time ever Hurray, thanks for the tip there, I think that going with the new version helped, a couple tweaks and I was online

[Diziet Sma]

Well, I installed virtualbox 4.2 and - openSUSE VM is connected to internet - for the first time ever Hurray, thanks for the tip there, I think that going with the new version helped, a couple tweaks and I was online

Excellent news! Don't forget to update the Guest Additions in your openSUSE VM!

[Tricky]

Handy aliases I use...

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# Aliases
# #######

# Some example alias instructions
# If these are enabled they will be used instead of any instructions
# they may mask.  For example, alias rm='rm -i' will mask the rm
# application.  To override the alias instruction use a \ before, ie
# \rm will call the real rm not the alias.

# Interactive operation...
# alias rm='rm -i'
# alias cp='cp -i'
# alias mv='mv -i'

# Default to human readable figures
alias df='df -h'
alias du='du -h'

# Misc :)
# alias less='less -r'                          # raw control characters
alias whence='type -a'                        # where, of a sort
alias grep='grep --color'                     # show differences in colour
alias egrep='grep --color -E'                 # show differences in colour
alias fgrep='grep --color -F'                 # show differences in colour

# Some shortcuts for different directory listings
alias ls='ls -hF --color=auto'                # classify files in colour
alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
alias ll='ls -l'                              # long list
alias la='ls -A'                              # all but . and ..
alias l='ls -CF'                              #

alias ds='ls -rS -alF --color=auto'
alias dt='ls -rt -alF --color=auto'
alias dv='ls -v -alF --color=auto'
alias dx='ls -X -alF --color=auto'

alias md=mkdir
alias rd=rmdir

alias qq=nano
alias pstree='pstree -Uulhca'
alias linkdead='ps -a | grep "^I.*bash$" - | cut -c5-9 - | xargs kill -HUP'
alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
alias make='LC_ALL=C make'

[CommRLock78]

Handy aliases I use...

I like those - I also like the comments that have been put in . I'm not sure if I'd want to eclipse my rm, mv and cp commands, but it probably isn't a bad idea to be prompted while using them .

[CommRLock78]

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alias md=mkdir
alias rd=rmdir

I didn't snap at first - these look like DOS commands, if I'm not mistaken - it's been a long time since DOS (which has bastardizations of Unix and CP/M commands)

[Diziet Sma]

A handy little alias I just now thought of for resizing Oolite screenshots before uploading to photobucket.

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# Proportionally resize images to 900 pixels wide for Oolite forum
alias shrink='mogrify -resize 900'

e.g. :-
shrink oolite-547.png - for a single file, or
shrink *.png for an entire folder of images.

[Cody]

A handy little alias I just now thought of for resizing Oolite screenshots before uploading to photobucket.

<looks around - no penguins> I've taken to cropping screenshots for posting, rather than resizing them - I think the image quality is slightly better that way.
Of course, that only works for pics with the hud disabled - but that's how I take most of my pics anyway.

[CommRLock78]

A handy little alias I just now thought of for resizing Oolite screenshots before uploading to photobucket.

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# Proportionally resize images to 900 pixels wide for Oolite forum
alias shrink='mogrify -resize 900'

Man, you have no idea how long I've wanted an easy way to go about resizing. I'm addin' this one to my list

[Diziet Sma]

<looks around - no penguins> I've taken to cropping screenshots for posting, rather than resizing them - I think the image quality is slightly better that way.
Of course, that only works for pics with the hud disabled - but that's how I take most of my pics anyway.

I often crop as well.. Ubuntu had a handy little image viewer that could crop.. haven't seen something similar on Mint yet. I might need to dig up the name of the program I used to use and install it.

Man, you have no idea how long I've wanted an easy way to go about resizing. I'm addin' this one to my list

I've been using mogrify for ages.. the alias just occurred to me because I was sick of toggling through my bash history to save typing the command from scratch. (Mogrify is an amazingly versatile tool.. read up on it when you have some time..)

[CommRLock78]

Man, you have no idea how long I've wanted an easy way to go about resizing. I'm addin' this one to my list

I've been using mogrify for ages.. the alias just occurred to me because I was sick of toggling through my bash history to save typing the command from scratch. (Mogrify is an amazingly versatile tool.. read up on it when you have some time..)

<fires up terminal and types in man mogrify > Man, there sure are a helluva lot of options for this utility

[Diziet Sma]

<looks around - no penguins> I've taken to cropping screenshots for posting, rather than resizing them - I think the image quality is slightly better that way.
Of course, that only works for pics with the hud disabled - but that's how I take most of my pics anyway.

I often crop as well.. Ubuntu had a handy little image viewer that could crop.. haven't seen something similar on Mint yet. I might need to dig up the name of the program I used to use and install it.

I finally remembered the name of the program I was using for cropping:- Shotwell. It's pretty basic, but faster and simpler than loading up GIMP just to crop an image.

[CommRLock78]

<looks around - no penguins> I've taken to cropping screenshots for posting, rather than resizing them - I think the image quality is slightly better that way.
Of course, that only works for pics with the hud disabled - but that's how I take most of my pics anyway.

I often crop as well.. Ubuntu had a handy little image viewer that could crop.. haven't seen something similar on Mint yet. I might need to dig up the name of the program I used to use and install it.

I finally remembered the name of the program I was using for cropping:- Shotwell. It's pretty basic, but faster and simpler than loading up GIMP just to crop an image.

EV isn't actually a penguin, so I don't think he'll be able to make much use out of Shotwell .
I added another alias, it's actually a couple more letters than oolite, but, it will launch the game and exit the terminal, much like your debug alias

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alias ooniverse='nohup oolite & exit'