Removing Dot-Underscore Files ~ Kadin2048's Weblog

In a recent post, Stephan Schmidt makes several suggestions in order to write "Next Generation Java". Unfortunately, I disagree with most of them

Using ffmpeg, you can easily re-encode a video to reduce its file size.

Command

Do it like this:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset slow -c:a copy -movflags +faststart output.mp4

Arguments

• -i input.mp4 specifie...

When you have files in your .gitignore they won't be considered for changes, but still you might want to get rid of them, e.g. because they clutter your file system.

While a regular git clean will ignore them as well, passing the -x switch ...

If you have trouble updating something on FreeBSD you should always take a look in the UPDATING file.

For this error there is this solution which worked perfectly for me:

20141127:...

Cucumber will clean up files you've uploaded in your Cucumber features automatically with the attached code. Put the file in features/support/.

The number of operators that you can overload is very small and each of them is attached to very specific semantics that makes little sense outside the realm of scalars and of a few other specialized mathematical concepts (e.g. matrices).

To force a check on your next reboot (here for your root partition), simply:

touch /forcefsck

To manually do this, here is how to do it for the first partition on sda, when you are using ext4:

fsck.ext4 -fn /dev/sda1

• -f forces th...

Say we want …

• to create a Gallery that has a name and has_many :images, which in turn have a caption
• to offer the user a single form to create a gallery with any number of images
• immediate uploads with a progress bar per image
• a snapp...

When storing files for lots of records in the server's file system, Carrierwave's default store_dir approach may cause issues, because some directories will hold too many entries.

The default storage directory from the Carrierwave templates loo...