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 [...]

January 14, 2007 • Posted in: Tech, Tools • 2 Comments

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 clints clints 184819851 Jan [...]

January 9, 2007 • Posted in: Tech, Tools • No Comments