A Code Monkey's Blog

MC (Midnight-Commander) 4.8.5 is slow, try 4.8.6

Recently MC was upgraded from 4.7.x to 4.8.5 on my 32bit Fedora 17. The start-up time was totally unbearable, around 15 sec to start. I compiled the latest release v4.8.6 and that time dropped to the negligible (< 1sec).

Use Perl like sed

Recently I wanted to use Perl and Bash to deal with a large number of files. I ended up needing in-line string substitution to create new shell commands. I vaguely had an idea that I should use 'sed' to do the text transform but by any chance I would like ...

How to show GNOME top panel from keyboard?

My computer display is not big so I have tried ways to save my screen real-estate. It looks to me that the designers of GNOME 3 must have a huge display.  The default window title bar are too high in my view. Besides the top panel is thicker than that ...

Add the remote git repository for your open-source collabration

When I hacked on github I would clone the upstream repository FOO into my local disk creating a 'master' branch. I hacked there and formatted a patch to the upstream repo owner. But I quickly found the need that I wanted to have my github-hosted 'master' branch since I wanted ...