Omnifarious

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bio	website	omnifarious.org/~hopper/…
	location	Seattle, WA
	age	41
visits	member for	1 year, 11 months
	seen	Dec 18 '12 at 5:32
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I'm offering my services as an online tutor for Python on TeachStreet. And if you feel like giving me a tip for a good answer, send me some Bitcoins at 1bDMa8UcyHX71kNJUVcCyrDCkum3TDybQ.

I've been programming since I was 8. I started with Apple Basic, then Timex Sinclair (ZX-81 at the time) Basic. After that I discovered the list of op-codes next to the ASCII chart in my ZX-81 manual. I began to compile my own hand-lettered sheets that put all the addressing modes of a given instruction in the same place so I could more easily handle-assemble small machine language programs.

It's gone on from there. The learning never ends.

Currently I do most of my programming in Python and C++ on Linux. I have a strong preference for Open Source software.

I've noticed that this site tends to have a slight bias for existing members. Members with a higher reputation tend to be voted up more even if their answer is very similar to someone else's with a lower reputation.

	586 reputation	bio	website	omnifarious.org/~hopper/…	visits	member for	1 year, 11 months
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Dec 17	answered	How to choose LUKS encryption when installing RHEL 6?
Nov 26	comment	Is there any way to let it snow on my linux mint destkop? Only 16 hours left, and I likely don't have enough time to see what's going on with this, and I'm not the best person to do so either. I hope someone answers your question. I'd like to know too. :-)
Nov 26	comment	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact Yes, that helps a bunch. It's a pity the only reasonable character to use as a placeholder there is `/`.
Nov 26	comment	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact `echo -n "$file"` would work. :-) Oh, and `"`'s around the `$( ... )` expression (aka `"$( ... )"`) would do it.
Nov 26	comment	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact I also believe this falls down on the case of 'no extension' and a filename with `\t` characters in it.
Nov 26	revised	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact added 4 characters in body
Nov 26	comment	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact How does `sed` decide which `.` to apply maximal munch to? I would feel a lot better about it if the second `.` were `[^_]*`.
Nov 26	comment	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact Terse, pithy, nearly write-only! Yay perl! chuckle
Nov 26	revised	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact added 90 characters in body
Nov 26	answered	Replace dots with underscores in filenames, leaving extension intact
Nov 25	awarded	Critic
Nov 23	comment	Is it possible to run shell commands inside zip files? Why do you want to do this?
Nov 22	revised	appending a variable to a file in Bash not working deleted 42 characters in body
Nov 22	comment	appending a variable to a file in Bash not working @Kevin: Oh, that's very interesting to know. Well, reduces the potential security issues of not quoting properly. I should've tested before I said something. I modified my answer accordingly.
Nov 22	answered	appending a variable to a file in Bash not working
Nov 22	comment	appending a variable to a file in Bash not working Also, just because it's good practice `echo "$preffix" >>myFile.txt` and `echo "$version" >>myFile.txt`.
Nov 22	revised	How to tell where recent ssh sessions originated from? added 100 characters in body
Nov 22	answered	How to tell where recent ssh sessions originated from?
Nov 21	comment	What does etc stand for? The file modification problem is being slowly solved by having programs read multiple configuration files from a directory. Some of those will be shipped with the package, and others supplied by users. The ones that are shipped may possibly be removed, but should not be user modified. Fantastic and informative answer BTW.
Nov 21	revised	How to export a private PGP email key added 28 characters in body