Aug

25

SVN AUTO UPDATING A DEV SERVER ON COMMIT

August 25, 2013 | 1 Comment

My goal here was to update a dev server anytime I commit a file. The simpliest way to do that seemed to create a post-commit hook. The difficulty though, came from file ownership and user issues. Basically, the post-commit script is executed as Apache : www-data on debian. And this user, on my setup, didn’t […]

May

27

Aria2 : Console Download Manager (Linux / OS X)

May 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment

We live in an awesome place in the country and love every minute of it, the only possible drawback being that our Internet bandwidth is not what it used to be 😉 . We can’t complain though, even Netflix works, but downloading big files (such as a linux dristrib) is almost impossible. Eventually, we realized […]

Jan

26

Display your terminal colors

January 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Playing with my brand new ZSH prompt, I needed to get a preview of my terminal colors. To see the result above, you can : download this script [display_colors.py] and save it locally run it with python /path/to/display_colors.py –terse When working on your prompt (or any other output you with to colorize), you can pick […]

Jan

26

Bash to ZSH

January 26, 2013 | 1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago, I switched from bash to zsh on my Mac OS X machine, today, I decided it was time to do the same to my linux server running Debian Squeeze. Here is how to switch : * As root, 1aptitude install zsh * run 1chsh <username> * Enter your user’s password […]

Jun

7

Installing OpenSSH on Windows 7

June 7, 2011 | 67 Comments

Today, I was tempted to take control of a Windows machine remotely in console mode as I’m trying to script the launch and use of VLC. A quick Google search reveleaed the existence of the sshwindows project which is a more lightweight solution than a full cygwin installation. Here are the installation steps : Download […]

Apr

17

Convert a VMWare Player appliance to be used with Virtual Box

April 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

As I understand, this post might soon be outdated if the next version of Virtual Box does manage to natively run VMWare Player appliances. Still, this version hasn’t be released yet and, since the VMWare Player doesn’t exist for OS X, I had to convert an appliance from VMWare player to Virtual Box. Here are […]

Jan

29

iTerm2: advanced features

January 29, 2011 | 7 Comments

At bluekiwi, I constantly have no less than 10 opened terminal sessions at the same time. Because it is so easy to launch a command in the wrong window (on the wrong server), I got used to always order my tabs the same way and always give them the same name. As I needed more […]

Jan

23

FTP upload in a script

January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The FTP protocol is simple to use. In a console, type ftp <host> to connect to your host. Enter your login and password when prompted and use get to download and put to upload a file. But what about doing that in a bash script ? Here is a working example of an FTP upload […]

  • About Me


    photo of Samantha Halfon Samantha Halfon
    Software Engineer
    blueKiwi software
    Paris, France
    I enjoy playing with my computer(s), listening to Bob Dylan (and related artists) and watching movies (especially if they were directed by Martin Scorsese or John Cassavetes). Sometimes, I play a little guitar... If not doing any of the above, I am either riding a small red bike around Paris, or, making videos. About my videomaking please check out World Wide Angle and its blog.