Archive for January, 2007
The Mighty Bitlbee – Providing Instant Messaging to the IRC Crowd
I was recently introduced to Bitlbee. Weird name I know, but I think I hear you asking “what is bitlbee?”. Well, I’d say it’s a gateway for Instant Messenger (IM) using Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Bitlbee’s job is essentially to allow any individual to provide a simple access to the IM networks using your irc [...]
GNU tar is my friend, is it yours?
Today, while evaluating some content at work, I came across a very neat trick I didn’t know about. tar can archive or extract gzipped, bzipped or compressed content without using their respective switches. First, we must have a couple correct archives: tar -czf projects-withz.tar.gz /share/projects/ tar -cjf projects-withj.tar.bz2 /share/projects/ $ ls -l projects-withz.tar.* -rw-rw-r– 1 [...]
