When you’re working on your Linux or Mac OS X system’s command line, the prompt is the text to the left of the commands you enter. The default prompt varies for every system, but it usually gives you an indication of your username, your machine’s host name and your current working directory. Also, it ends with a dollar sign $ if you’re working as a normal user. If you’re working with root privileges, it ends with # instead.
The prompt can be customized to include relevant information that can help you increase productivity, to hide information you don’t care about, or to highlight the lines in your terminal output where you entered commands. …
As a follow-up question for advice when buying a computer, I would like to get another thing clear:
How do we assemble a computer properly?
In what order do I need to put the hardware I bought into my computer?
Do I need to watch out for static electricity? How can I avoid it?
What are the com...
In Snow Leopard I could easily capture a part of the screen using this, but it does not work anymore with OSX Lion, so I wonder whether you know any other approach to capture A PART of the screen (a rectangular selection) in OSX Lion
Everyone’s back in their home towns this week (Sorry for the audio quality last week. It was Joel’s fault [actually, it was TechCrunch's fault]). And joining Jeff & Joel this week is John Sheenhan, Developer Evangelist for Twilio.
Jeff and Joel are bored of board meetings. How do you make them productive or even useful? Brad Feld says you should give out a document beforehand. Joel does this, and nobody reads it, but they at least pretend they did. Maybe Joel should plant money under the attendees’ chairs? …
So why do we still have "noise or pointless" as a close option on Meta Super User (and Meta Server Fault) and nowhere else? I've just noticed that the "not a real question" option is missing.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I've got to add something here to ensure I get this ...
