Posts tagged: TIPS

RealPlayer direct download

I learned this today from an anonymous comment over at FA:OSX. If you want to download RealPlayer but would rather skip the registration and the attempts to distract you into buying the payware version, just go here:

http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk


jima commented on Sat Oct 8 14:16:27 2005:

There’s also another version that the BBC had made exclusively for its radio listeners that doesn’t have all the spyware stuff that you get in the regular RealPlayer version. BoingBoing wrote it up last year, and it looks like the links are still good.

Watching logs

I have a webserver with about a dozen active domains. Sometimes I want to take a quick look at the ongoing action on a particular domain. I have an alias called “watchlog” that takes the domain name as an argument. It shows me the last 25 lines of the log for that domain and then new ones as they come, until I kill it.

It’s a tcsh alias (sorry, bash users):