Comments for Those Darn Geeks http://thosedarngeeks.com "They would have gotten away with it, too..." Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Comment on Unix and The Baha Men by Mike Hilty http://thosedarngeeks.com/unix-and-the-baha-men/#comment-342 Mike Hilty Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:50:36 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=663#comment-342 You have *NIX /bin/bash 'ed into your brain... ;-) You have *NIX /bin/bash ‘ed into your brain… ;-)

]]> Comment on Amazing Musical Video Hackery by Gary Coulbourne http://thosedarngeeks.com/amazing-musical-video-hackery/#comment-256 Gary Coulbourne Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:14:12 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=639#comment-256 Thanks for the pointer, Canis. I can always rely on you to expand my horizons. Thanks for the pointer, Canis. I can always rely on you to expand my horizons.

]]> Comment on Amazing Musical Video Hackery by Gustav Gloop http://thosedarngeeks.com/amazing-musical-video-hackery/#comment-255 Gustav Gloop Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:14:01 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=639#comment-255 That Was A Treat! That Was A Treat!

]]> Comment on Amazing Musical Video Hackery by Canis Lupus http://thosedarngeeks.com/amazing-musical-video-hackery/#comment-254 Canis Lupus Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:20:29 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=639#comment-254 This is from http://thru-you.com/ -- there's a complete album containing 7 tracks done like this. Check out track 4, "Babylon Band" in particular for some awesome old-school analogue synth action :) This is from http://thru-you.com/ — there’s a complete album containing 7 tracks done like this. Check out track 4, “Babylon Band” in particular for some awesome old-school analogue synth action :)

]]> Comment on Amazing Musical Video Hackery by Calophi http://thosedarngeeks.com/amazing-musical-video-hackery/#comment-253 Calophi Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:51:39 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=639#comment-253 I don't really like how the harmonica part fits. It makes the whole thing really jarring. I'd have liked it as just the band and leaving out the singer for a nice instrumental jazz piece. I don’t really like how the harmonica part fits. It makes the whole thing really jarring. I’d have liked it as just the band and leaving out the singer for a nice instrumental jazz piece.

]]> Comment on Amazing Musical Video Hackery by Scott Lawrence http://thosedarngeeks.com/amazing-musical-video-hackery/#comment-252 Scott Lawrence Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:56:50 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=639#comment-252 Reminds me a bit of something from Emergency Broadcast Network. Ace! Reminds me a bit of something from Emergency Broadcast Network. Ace!

]]> Comment on A Capella Molto Bella by Jose Fritz http://thosedarngeeks.com/a-capella-molto-bella/#comment-247 Jose Fritz Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:16:07 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=620#comment-247 I own the soundtrack for Disorderlies on LP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorderlies I own the soundtrack for Disorderlies on LP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorderlies

]]> Comment on A Capella Molto Bella by Calophi http://thosedarngeeks.com/a-capella-molto-bella/#comment-243 Calophi Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:26:59 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=620#comment-243 I've always liked the beatboxing flute player. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0</a> I’ve always liked the beatboxing flute player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0

]]> Comment on Perl -p is the sweetness by Douglas Bodden http://thosedarngeeks.com/perl-p-is-the-sweetness/#comment-240 Douglas Bodden Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:13:55 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=616#comment-240 Eric - so did they ever fix the bug with the command line parsing that forced you to ALWAYS to "perl -pi.bak -e" instead of mixing the p, i, and e as you ought to be able to do? Eric – so did they ever fix the bug with the command line parsing that forced you to ALWAYS to “perl -pi.bak -e” instead of mixing the p, i, and e as you ought to be able to do?

]]> Comment on Perl -p is the sweetness by Eric S Law http://thosedarngeeks.com/perl-p-is-the-sweetness/#comment-239 Eric S Law Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:15:49 +0000 http://thosedarngeeks.com/?p=616#comment-239 One of my fav perl oneliners is to modify files in place like this: perl -i.old -pe 's/oldstring/newstring/g' somefile.txt Updates the file and saves the old one with .old suffix. The newest flag I've learned is '-l' which puts n on print lines for you One of my fav perl oneliners is to modify files in place like this:
perl -i.old -pe ‘s/oldstring/newstring/g’ somefile.txt

Updates the file and saves the old one with .old suffix.

The newest flag I’ve learned is ‘-l’ which puts n on print lines for you

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