Levitate? Do I look like some priest? I just blink away!

Or more likely, hit blink, it bugs out and you go half a meter backwards instead… But then you can always ice block or slow fall to save the day!

other warlock

It is always the warlocks that are the problem.

Signed, a mage

mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully.

Well no, your shell does. And there are limits to how many matches, for a more robust way use find.

As for the post topic. I use xmms2 with a small script bound to the windows-keys, left for play/pause and the right opens a file selector to load new files.

There is a saying (paraphrasing) that sadly is almost never implemented.

“Don’t tell your employees what to do, hire really smart people and listen to their ideas”

That is good advice, however sadly a lot of install scripts are basically: download this script from us, and pipe it to a root shell.

Sounds like CMOS battery dying/dead on the motherboard. It stores BIOS settings, including password and clock. (Though you really should be using ntpd)

Nice rack!

That exact same phrase is used in a very different context in other communities!

More often than not that is corporate speak for “we fired the old team and replaced them with cheaper workers. And we didn’t want to pay them to learn the old code/they tried but failed, so we are dumping features now”