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ASCII colour codes

Listing of the standard ASCII colours that can be used to customize the command prompt in your shell

Quick table of ASCII colour codes that can be used for modifying the look of the shell prompt.

Posted by Chris on Wed, Feb 28, 2024

How to enable sshd on Windows

Shell into your Windows computer like a boss

If you come from a ’nix background you are used to working with ssh in order to connect to remote computers. This is kind of an alien concept in the Windows world. Sure, …

Posted by Chris on Thu, Feb 15, 2024

Quality of life tweaks for vi/vim

Set some useful vi/vim settings that some operating systems don't enable as a default

I use vim as my standard editor for editing files at the command prompt. Almost all Linux based operating systems install it by default. When you first install the OS there is no …

Posted by Chris on Thu, Feb 15, 2024

Make /bin/bash tab completion case sensitive

User preference is a thing

This may or may not be something you want to enable depending how you normally work.

Posted by Chris on Wed, Aug 28, 2019

How to move Docker images between hosts

Don't "re-pull" the universe if you are at a low bandwidth site

If you are located at a site with a slow Internet connection or if your ISP sets a bandwidth quota per your contract, you may not want to waste your bandwidth downloading the same …

Posted by Chris on Mon, Nov 19, 2018

Convert badly formed HTML to something that can be translated

Character maps fails for fun and profit

One of my passions is classic and vintage cars. As part of that I sometimes end up trolling for information in very old, unmaintained portions of the public Internet. I’m …

Posted by Chris on Thu, Jun 15, 2017