I've used this web based regular expression test tool a couple of times over the last day or so. While I don't normally struggle with regular expressions, this tool has still come in handy; it has saved me from the "code it and cross your fingers" approach I normally take.This is a great tool for anyone who works with PHP, especially as the service uses PHP regular expression functions as a base for its operations.URL: http://www.solmetra.lt/scripts/regex/Philip Newborough. Some Rights Reserved.
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Foreword: If you enjoy these fonts and this post then please consider spreading the love by partaking in a little digging. I wouldn't normally ask but this site is currently powered by a prototype blogging application and I could really do with the extra traffic to help judge its performance. Thanks.Brian Kent is a prolific font designer. At 32 years old he's already amassed an impressive collection of handmade fonts. He's also a really nice guy and has agreed to let me package his free fo...
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I've not read the book, but the Wicked Cool Shell Scripts site and its example shell scripts are, erm, wicked cool. The site offers a whole host of scripts, some of which could quite easily be adapted/hacked into useful tools. If you're remotely interested in Shell scripting, you should take a look, even people with scripting experience might learn a thing or two.URL: http://www.intuitive.com/wicked/index.shtmlDownload the script library: wicked-cool-shell-scripts.tgzPhilip Newborough. Some Rights Reserved.
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Yesterday I permanently shut down the old family desktop. I say family, but in reality it was the desktop used by Becky and Emma before they got their laptops. Anyhow, before shutting the desktop down for the last time, Becky asked if I would transfer her music and photo collection to her laptop.Becky's laptop is one of my old machines, it's an Acer Travelmate 240. I used it for a good few years before handing it over to Becky sometime last year. Being one of my old machines, it was set-up for dual booting with Ubu...
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So, when I released the initial CrunchBang Linux I really didn't think that anyone would actually download it. Turns out I was wrong, and this really surprised me. Initially I had no intention of working on another release of CrunchBang, see the quote below from the release notes:
It should be noted that my remastered version of Ubuntu is intended for my own personal use. I had no intention of releasing any disk images when I started this project; however, now that I've produced a working copy, I've decided to releas...
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It was suggested on IRC that it might be useful to set-up some forums for CrunchBang Linux. So, I've set-up some forums for CrunchBang Linux. This wasn't an easy decision to make and personally I'm still not sure that the forums are needed; however, I do agree that it might be nice to have somewhere other than this blog for people to leave feedback and suggestions.Please feel free to visit the forums and register, get in quick before all the good usernames disappear 
There isn't much in the way of content yet, bu...
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Twitter, I guess it's one of those web applications where you either "get" it or you don't. For a long time I stood firmly in the don't "get" it camp. My history with Twitter is somewhat scattered, I posted my first couple of tweets on December 21, 2006. It was a while until I tweeted again, when I did it took the following form:
Testing twitter on my Nokia N95 06:15 AM January 22, 2008 from web
And then 7 days later I tweeted again:
Once again playing with twitter, still not sure that I "get" it! Hmm. 02:52 PM ...
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A Serbian translation of the random Ubuntu advocacy images is now available. The translation comes courtesy of Milos Jakovljevic and the Serbian Ubuntu LoCo team. Thank you Milos.The complete Serbian set can be viewed on this demo page. The code to display the images is below, simply copy & paste into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/rs/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
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CrunchBang Linux now has its own IRC channel on freenode. Thanks to Space Aviator for setting this up and mailing me with the details. You can connect to the CrunchBang IRC channel using an IRC client such as XChat, point your client to the freenode network (irc.freenode.net:6667) and join the #crunchbang channel.I use IRC most evenings and I'll add #crunchbang to my channel list. I'll try to log in whenever I can. Please say "hi" if you see me about, I'm always up for a chat with fellow Linux users. My nick is cor...
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The Ubuntu advocacy images are now available in 12 different languages. Alexander Telenga has done a fantastic job converting the images into Russian. These new Russian images are some of my favourites to date, I love the Russian character set. Thank you Alexander 
The complete Russian set can be viewed on this demo page. The code to display the images is below, simply copy & paste into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:
<script type="text/javascript" src="...
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