Archive for November, 2009

Awk and other Unix utilities

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Ahh.. Where else can you do smth like: awk ‘/PAGE\[Q/ {split($4,fields,"[");print fields[2];}’ dts.output | awk -F, ‘{print $1;}’ | sort | uniq > filtered.output To take in a page of 3000+ lines messy text n info and get exactly what you want in 218 lines.

Royal Copenhagen – Tea Lounge Singapore and 2012!

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Monday was great! tp finally brought us to this little hidden tea place she has been talking about previously. It’s hidden in a small corner of Taka, but has great view of Orchard outside and luckily when we were there it was pretty empty. The food was very very shiok, very strong tasting so you [...]

Damnit

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Bah. Dammit. Just got news one baby died. Hope the last egg still hatches tmr. :(

Using Bitmap fonts in Ubuntu

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Having discovered Dina in Windows, wanted to try installing in Ubuntu back home. Hellish nightmare. Font support in Ubuntu is pretty bad, Windows does it so much better. Just a quick note here to record things I’ve found out which works, before I forget again. Most old (2005-07) results on Google will point to using [...]