Tar tips

Tar is very useful to create backups and disk images. Normally Unix’s administrators know this pair:
tar -czf file.tar.gz directory/ # To compress directory into file.tar.gz
tar -xvzf file.tar.gz # To unzip file.tar.gz
It is possible to tar utility automatic discover compression format when unzipping using:
tar -xf file.tar.gz
Now imagine you need copy a hd’s content to another. You [...]

Crimson editor

A good alternative for Windows notepad is Crimson editor. Besides its feature of work as C, C++, Java and Perl editor have a lot of useful editing resources link spelling checker, undo/redo, user tools, macros, and more. Even it last version is from 2004, it’s still modern and achieve the purposes for it was built.

Amazing pictures

My friend Vicente Maia has in flickr his photos of his travels by the world. Take a look, is worth of a visit, the pictures are at least amazing. Below you can see some pictures as sample of you can get there.