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Dumping WYSIWYG: Building Android User Interfaces at Run Time

if you ever need to retrieve your voice memos from you IPhone, you can do it by scp: Voice memos are found at: /User/Media/Recordings/

This is a good thread on info about the new grub in karmic http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

This one handles files with white spaces: find . -name "*~" -type f -print0|xargs -0 rm

I just learned about the rsync command which is amazingly useful. I have been using scp to copy folders from one machine at home to a machine in the lab back and forth and so far it's been good, and dead simple, but always involved extra work like making moving directories around. Now that I learned rsync, I can simply back up my work from the lab to my machine and vice versa using a simple command. Here is the command I use: rsync --delete -ravuzn -delete-excluded --exclude=*~ --rsh=ssh ~/work/ david@server.at.work.com:~/work/ and then, (notice I remove the n flag) rsync --delete -ravuz -delete-excluded --exclude=*~ --rsh=ssh ~/work/ david@server.at.work.com:~/work/ so what does this command do: flags: --delete: if I have removed files from my local computer, they are also deleted on the server r: recursively go through the folders and subfolders a: archive v: verbose mode u: update z: compress files --delete-excluded: deletes excluded files passed as parameter (next flag) --exclu...

Situation: You are on machine A, and you want to log in machine B without having to enter your password each time. On machine A: type: ssh-keygen -t rsa then press enter for default settings, and make sure you don't enter any paraphrase. Now, you need to send your public key to machine B. type: cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh b@B 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' That's it !

This is taken from http://techkr.blogspot.com/2007/02/python-how-to-get-output-from-ossystem.html: How to execute python inside python and capture output: A quick solution using popen : import os result=os.popen('command').read() print result where command is your command (expl. on windows: dir,ipconfig,...) If you expect more than a line and want each word in a list: import os,string result=string.split(os.popen('dir/w').read())