November 2007

Installing mtr on FreeBSD Without a GUI

So you need to install mtr on FreeBSD but it tries to install X11, Gnome and a bunch of other stuff that doesn’t need to go on your Web server? Use these steps to compile mtr on FreeBSD without X windows.

cd /usr/ports/net/mtr
make clean
make -DWITHOUT_X11
make install
/usr/local/sbin/mtr –help

Alternatively, you could edit /etc/make.conf to include “WITHOUT_X11=yes” to get the same result without using the -DWITHOUT_X11 command line option.

Utilities

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Right-click to Copy a File Path in Windows Vista

In Windows Explorer, hold down the shift key and right-click a file or folder. Select Copy as Path to send the full path name as text to the clipboard. It also works with multiple selects. That is, if you select multiple files/folders by holding down the control or shift key, selecting the Copy as Path menu item will send all of the items’ names to the clipboard - one item per line. Nice! As a tech who is constantly sending and receiving information about files, shares and folders, this is reason enough to upgrade to Vista.

Windows

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