Just like this guy when trying to do $ port selfupdate I’d get errors like:

The problem is that my macports version is very old and after an rsync dp_version is now in base/config rather than just base. Furthermore because the rsync happens before [...]

Anyone who has converted some old wordprocessed documents to plain ascii text will know that wordprocessors love to insert their only special versions for a few of the standard characters such as ‘ and ” (- also comes up pretty frequently). I personally came across while using odt2txt plus openoffice to convert some old [...]

I am a heavy vim user and want to be able to copy and paste from the system clipboard so that, for example, I can edit my posts in vim and then paste them from firefox in here. I should also mention that I prefer to use terminal not gui versions of vim which influences [...]

Just some random ideas on how to do this culled from elsewhere

Rename *.foo to *.bar:

ls -d .foo | sed -e ‘s/./mv & &/’ | sh

import os import shutil import commands

srcPath = ‘/var/share/music’

Very annoyingly if you update the WP site url (or move your blog without updating site url) your install will be b0rked and you will have to go mess around with the db. What you need to do (tested on WP 2.0) is:

update wp_options set option_value = ‘[wordpress -address]‘ where option_name = ‘siteurl’; [...]