Monthly Archives: August 2006

Evil wget isn’t as evil as regular wget

Compiling wget for Windows is not a difficult task, but there is almost no good documentation out there to help. This guy has a decent guide. I use Visual Studio 2005, but Microsoft gives away a free version that will work just as well for this purpose. Wget depends on openssl (to connect to secure [...]

LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

By default OS X Terminal doesn’t have colored output enabled for ls. Some people love colors in ls (me), others hate them. I like them, but the default colors aren’t very useful. Directories are blue, meaning they blend in very well with a black terminal background. It’s even worse if you’re using a blue background [...]