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).
Perl script: retrieve current weather condition and forecast
I'm a little tired of checking out the weather condition via the web browser. In many cases I just want to see a short report in my terminal. After reading http://blogs.perl.org/users/zengargoyle/2012/08/not-to-hot-for-mojo.html, which shows how to use Mojolicious to retrieve the ...
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 ...