The Technical Bits

IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS
IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS

GNU Screen is a “full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.” My .screenrc file:

shell -/usr/bin/bash
hardstatus alwayslastline "%{=b}%{G} Screen(s): %{r}%w
    %=%{+r}%{ky} %D %d %M %C " 

My default .bashrc file. This is taken from cygwin.# base-files version 3.7-1

# To pick up the latest recommended .bashrc content,
# look in /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc

# Modifying /etc/skel/.bashrc directly will prevent
# setup from updating it.

# The copy in your home directory (~/.bashrc) is yours, please
# feel free to customise it to create a shell
# environment to your liking. If you feel a change
# would be benificial to all, please feel free to send
# a patch to the cygwin mailing list.

# User dependent .bashrc file
# Shell Options
# #############

# See man bash for more options…

# Don’t wait for job termination notification
# set -o notify

# Don’t use ^D to exit
# set -o ignoreeof

# Use case-insensitive filename globbing
shopt -s nocaseglob

# Make bash append rather than overwrite the history on disk
# shopt -s histappend

# When changing directory small typos can be ignored by bash
# for example, cd /vr/lgo/apaache would find /var/log/apache
# shopt -s cdspell
# Completion options
# ##################

# These completion tuning parameters change the default behavior of bash_completion:

# Define to access remotely checked-out files over passwordless ssh for CVS
# COMP_CVS_REMOTE=1

# Define to avoid stripping description in –option=description of ‘./configure –help’
# COMP_CONFIGURE_HINTS=1

# Define to avoid flattening internal contents of tar files
# COMP_TAR_INTERNAL_PATHS=1

# If this shell is interactive, turn on programmable completion enhancements.
# Any completions you add in ~/.bash_completion are sourced last.
# case $- in
# *i*) [[ -f /etc/bash_completion ]] && . /etc/bash_completion ;;
# esac
# History Options
# ###############

# Don’t put duplicate lines in the history.
export HISTCONTROL=”ignoredups”

# Ignore some controlling instructions
# export HISTIGNORE=”[ ]*:&:bg:fg:exit”

# Whenever displaying the prompt, write the previous line to disk
# export PROMPT_COMMAND=”history -a”
# Aliases
# #######

# Some example alias instructions
# If these are enabled they will be used instead of any instructions
# they may mask. For example, alias rm=’rm -i’ will mask the rm
# application. To override the alias instruction use a \ before, ie
# \rm will call the real rm not the alias.

# Interactive operation…
alias rm=’rm -i’
alias cp=’cp -i’
# alias mv=’mv -i’

# Default to human readable figures
# alias df=’df -h’
# alias du=’du -h’

# Misc 🙂
alias less=’less -r’ # raw control characters
alias whence=’type -a’ # where, of a sort
alias grep=’grep -n –color’ # show differences in colour

# Some shortcuts for different directory listings
alias ls=’ls -hF –color=tty’ # classify files in colour
alias dir=’ls –color=auto –format=vertical’
alias vdir=’ls –color=auto –format=long’
alias ll=’ls -l’ # long list
alias la=’ls -A’ # all but . and ..
alias l=’ls -CF’ #
alias lr=’ls -ltr’ # reverse list

alias h=’history 10′
alias j=’jobs’

alias fa=’fortune -a’
alias fo=’fortune -o’

# Functions
# #########

# Some example functions
# function settitle() { echo -ne “\e]2;$@\a\e]1;$@\a”; }
fortune

ssh -C2qTnN -D 4567 user@somehost.com

Options used:

• C – requests compression of all data.
• 2 – forces ssh to try protocol version 2 only.
• q – quiet mode; suppresses all warning and diagnostic messages.
• T – disables pseudo-tty allocation.
• n – redirects stdin from /dev/null, i.e., prevent reading from stdin. Must be used when ssh is run in the background.
• N – means do not execute a remote command.
• D – specifies the local application-level port.

ntsd -p [pid] -c "q"

Nuked Gallery has an excellent integration module for interfacing phpBB, et al., with the gallery2 image software. It was fairly straightforward to do this, but I had some trouble getting the phpBB header link bar working correctly when the gallery was being displayed. This forum post describes the problem and the solution.

For reference, the solution is to comment out this code in the gallery2.php file:

/*
$template->assign_block_vars('switch_phpbb_base', array(
'PHPBB_BASE' => strtolower(substr($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'], 0,
strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'], '/'))) . '://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .
substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, strrpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '/') + 1)) );
*/

To use rxvt as the terminal in Cygwin:

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sr -sl 10000 -fg gray -bg black -fn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12" -T bash -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i

This creates a gray-on-black terminal using the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font.