7deeds » how-to http://blog.7deeds.com Petros Amiridis - A humble programmer's seven noteworthy actions for the community Mon, 31 May 2010 12:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How to enable VCS infromation in zsh http://blog.7deeds.com/2010/03/10/enable-vcs-infromation-in-zsh/ http://blog.7deeds.com/2010/03/10/enable-vcs-infromation-in-zsh/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:07:59 +0000 Petros http://blog.7deeds.com/?p=409 If you are using zsh as your terminal in Ubuntu, you can use a built in feature to display version control information at the prompt.

After reading “Zsh Prompt Magic” I created the zsh_vcs_info file which you can download. You place it in your home directory and open .zshrc and add the following line:

source /home/user/.zsh_vcs_info

Notice that I added a . (dot) in the filename because I want it to be hidden. Also, notice that “user” in the path above, is the username of the account you use to log into Ubuntu.

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]]> http://blog.7deeds.com/2008/12/26/how-to-generate-the-md5-checksum-of-a-file/feed/ 1 How to create an ISO image http://blog.7deeds.com/2008/12/26/how-to-create-an-iso-image/ http://blog.7deeds.com/2008/12/26/how-to-create-an-iso-image/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:48:57 +0000 Petros http://blog.7deeds.com/?p=84 In order to turn a CD/DVD into an .iso one can:

sudo umount /dev/cdrom

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso bs=1024

In order to turn a folder into an .iso one can:

mkisofs -r -o file.iso /location_of_folder/

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Let’s say you backed up MyDB and you want to restore it to MyNewDB. You can run the following TSQL:

Of course, the paths and the names of the database should be changed according to your needs.

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