cp -r /path/to/source/dir/* /path/to/destination/dir

But bash’s glob rules won’t include hidden files/folders in the top level of the source directory. I finally found an answer over at linuxquestions.org. Just tell bash to use a different glob rule and you’re done:

shopt -s dotglob

Another commenter suggested cp -rT /path/to/source/dir /path/to/destination/dir as an alternative, but I haven’t tried it. It’s also not in the man page (at least not on my OSX machine.)

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

Been awhile since I posted anything. Better posts to come, I swear.

# /etc/hosts
# -------------
# format: IP  FQDN Aliases, comma separated
# list localhost on a line by itself like

127.0.0.1 localhost

# and external ip w/ fqdn and alias

xxx.xxx.0.1 myhost.example.com myhost

—

# /etc/hostname
# set to _just_ the machine hostname/alias, not fqdn
myhost

—

Now test with:

username@myhost:~$ hostname -a
myhost
username@myhost:~$ hostname -d
example.com
username@myhost:~$ hostname -f
myhost.example.com

At any rate, now that I’ve been enlightened I set eclipse to use 11pt Andale Mono. I found it in the accepted answer of a stackoverflow question on the topic. There are, of course, many other options. Even after a few weeks to adjust I still look at my code and think, “Wow, that just looks so nice.” This is a completely new emotion, to look at source code and find it visually appealing. Code formatting certainly comes into play there as well, but the addition of a well-designed font increases its appeal by at least one order of magnitude.

$ ls -l /
...
d--------- system system 2009-05-09 11:30 sdcard
...

I couldn’t figure this out. Why would the system process have wiped all permissions from the directory? I had recently mounted it, while installing my new ultimate doom wad file (more on that later.) It turns out that since I still have the usb cable plugged in, even though I had unmounted the volume, the system process still wanted control of the sdcard. Makes sense, since ubuntu can still see the volume exists but is unmounted. Once I unplugged the cable everything went back to normal. Duh!

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Thanks to BB for turning me on to Semiconductor.

So what’s “bright static”? In some sense it’s just some words that I thought sounded good together. I don’t remember exactly how I came up with it, other than mashing on the keyboard for the better part of an hour in front of a whois.net. Naming is hard. Anyway after coming up with it the first thing that came to mind was a starfield:

There’s also some interesting interpretations related to data mining / machine learning / information retrieval. Honestly though I picked it because I thought it had a “ring” to it, and only then did I start thinking about what it meant.