Accents with Gnome

February 29th, 2008

Need to search for José González in Rhythmbox? Just found out about Sígur Rós?–Með Blóðnasir anyone? Had an essay on þe grammatical structures of Old English?
Being a native English speaker, I previously managed using the ‘Insert Symbol’ dialog, however lately I can’t seem to escape accents and letter forms. You too can be pretentious while […]

Recursively Counting Lines in Source Files

May 2nd, 2007

Using the BASH shell to issue the wc and find commands you can recursively count the lines in files of types you specify. First navigate into the directory, then alter the following command to your needs:

wc -l `find . -regex ‘.*\(.php\|.xsl\|.css\|.xml\)’ -print`

In my coursework directory this returns 2340 lines. Size eight font for this one.

Flash 9 Beta for Linux

October 20th, 2006

I’ve been following the native Flash update for Linux development blog since May. Up until now the whole atmosphere has been that of Adobe stringing along Linux enthusiasts for all it’s worth, with a tentative release date here and some development problems there. However on the flip-side at least the community has been getting that […]