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On pre-marathon meals
Don’t necessarily do as I’ve done here–I’m just illustrating a point. For my three fastest marathon times, I’ve eaten as the last meal before: – 3:32 – cheap mediocre Mexican food. – 3:39 – Mexican in Florence, KY on the way to Cincinnati and pub grub at Nicholson’s in Cincinnati. – 3:49 – pub food…
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Using Escape Codes and Setting Window Title on PS1 for ksh (Korn Shell)
I set up the following in my ~/.profile for my ksh login: export HOST=$(hostname) export PS1=$(perl -e ‘printf “33]0;${USER}@${HOST}:${PWD}07$”‘) Unfortunately, ksh doesn’t understand escape codes, so perl or awk is necessary to pull this off–or you can enter them literally via your editor. I like the perl route just for ease of maintenance. This was…
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Count Outlook Inbox Unread / Total From Ruby
Well, Track your unread items/total items count in Outlook on startup, except for the pesky Outlook Macro disabled security problem. Besides, I never restarted Outlook often enough for it to track much of anything. Instead, I decided to create a Ruby script to track the count. I’ve left reference URLs and test notes in place…