Tag Archives: command line

Turning Firefox into a web screensaver using a bash script

Posted on 19/04/2009 by mcmlxxii

There’s a little program available for windows that lets you turn your browser into a screensaver, looping through various web content. However, there are 2 things wrong with it. Firstly it costs money. Secondly it doesn’t run on linux. So … Continue reading →

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No! Please don’t do it!

Posted on 13/11/2008 by mcmlxxii

There are some highly entertaining examples on the net of command line program output, but it’s great when you’re doing some system maintenance in Linux on your own machine and a gem unexpectedly crops up: :~$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart [sudo] … Continue reading →

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