Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Python Rocks! and other rants
A logging module for Python

Unix: Tips on fixing Command Not Found
do "whereis foo", or "find / -name foo -print", then add the correct result to your path if you find it.

Zap2It Labs shutting down, how will this effect sagetv?
Zap2It labs will discontinue on September 1. But .. It will not affect SageTV since they bought a commercial license or some such thing. Yay!

Chroot Jail vs Plash
Plash, a new fangled chroot jail type of deal. How does it compare? Read about it here.

Generating PDFs for Fun and Profit with Flying Saucer and iText
How to programmatically generate PDFs easily with plain XHTML and CSS

Searching Bash History Quickly
[ctrl]+[r], type in part of the command, [ctrl]+[r] again to cycle through the matches, [enter] to run the command.

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2 Responses to “Mini Searches with Answers”

  1. ragaskar says:

    the ‘command not found’ error can also occur if you are attempting to use some ‘root’-only commands (like useradd) via su or sudo.

    Apparently, logging on using ’su -’ instead will automatically correct the path settings for you (although I didn’t research why. ;) )

  2. Ragaskar, thanks for the tip.