To uninstall the Inquisitor search (http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/index_en.php) plugin from safari issue the following commands on the command line:

sudo rm -Rf /Library/InputManagers/Inquisitor/
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/inquisitor*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Inquisitor/

Quit and restart Safari

... so now i have to try it out and see how it works.

To restore a file or folder in subversion you must copy the older version of the file forward to the HEAD.

svn copy https://svn.example.com/trunk/foo/bar@24178 https://svn.example.com/trunk/foo/bar -m "Restoring deleted file"

where @24178 is the version number of the file/folder you wish to restore. This command operates directly on the repository so be careful!

Ever wonder why you project insists on including some old library file? To print a tree of all of the dependencies within your project use the following maven command:

mvn dependency:tree

Have you ever had mythTv crash on you and then show the length of recorded shows incorrectly? e.g. 37 hours for a CSI episode you know is only 1 hour long … running this on the console can fix it:

mysqlcheck -u mythtv -p --repair mythconverg recordedseek

mysql mysql
SELECT `Host`, `User`, `Password` FROM `user`;
set password for 'auser'@'%' = password('changeme');
flush privileges;

You can compress movies and recorded video for viewing on a blackberry curve using the following mencoder command line. A typical 1.5 hour movie will be about 225mb when finished.

mencoder -vf scale=320:-10 [input filename] -o [output filename] -of avi -ofps 15 -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=230:acodec=mp3:abitrate=64

If your are compiling software from source under linux you may be able to obtain the required packages using apt-get, first locate the packaged software using apt-cache:

sudo apt-cache search [software]

then look for the appropriate package name and then use apt-get to install the required dev packages, libs etc:

sudo apt-get build-dep [package]

To mount a usb key on linux first create a folder as your mount target (do this only once!):

mkdir /media/sda

plug the usb key into the computer and execute the following as root

mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda

the drive will now be accessable in /mount/sda and before removing the device type:

umount /media/sda

before removing the key from the computer.

http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext