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Mac and "Cheese" nutritional Yeast

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:46:09 -0500

3 1/2 cups elbow macaroni
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup flour
3 1/2 cups boiling water
1.5 tsp salt
2 Tbs tamari
1.5 tsp garlic powder
pinch of turmeric
1/4 cup oil
1 cup nutritional yeast
paprika to taste

Boil pasta while preheating oven to 350 F.

In a saucepan, melt margarine over low heat.
Beat in flour with a wire whisk and continue to beat over a medium flame until mixture is smooth and bubbly.
Whip in boiling water, salt, tamari, garlic powder, and turmeric, beating well to dissolve.
The sauce should cook until it thickens and bubbles.
Then add oil and yeast flakes.

Mix part of this sauce with the noodles.
Put noodles in a casserole dish and pour the rest of the sauce over the top.
Sprinkle with paprika and bake for 15 minutes at 350.
Then broil for a few minutes until “cheese” sauce gets stretchy and crisp.

"… to copy the inner identity to the outer identity [for accounting] (works with freeradius 1..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:05:28 -0500

“

… to copy the inner identity to the outer identity [for accounting] (works with freeradius 1 and 2):

DEFAULT FreeRADIUS-Proxied-To == 127.0.0.1 User-Name := `%{User-Name}`, Fall-Through = yes

”

- Nabble - FreeRadius - User - EAP/TTLS on LDAP with freeradius 2.0.1

InformIT on Pattern Matching

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:43:29 -0400

InformIT on Pattern Matching:

Using the replace() function in Javascript, $& is the found pattern.

"Research shows that motorists talking on a phone are four times as likely to crash as other drivers,..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:57:34 -0400

“Research shows that motorists talking on a phone are four times as likely to crash as other drivers, and are as likely to cause an accident as someone with a .08 blood alcohol content.”

- Driven to Distraction - NYTimes.com

Clear print queue in OS X

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:41:41 -0400

Clear print queue in OS X:

Works like a champ!

cancel -a -

JavaScript undefined vs. null

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:03:05 -0400

JavaScript undefined vs. null:

JavaScript is annoying me today.

Use if(!foo){foo="bar";}

Still Seeking an Exploded Tinderbox for Tiger – 0xDECAFBAD

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:56:24 -0400

Still Seeking an Exploded Tinderbox for Tiger – 0xDECAFBAD:

Oh, I completely agree! Except I never got sucked into TinderBox because I didn’t trust that I could get out ALL of my metadata. Exploded Tinderbox would be the best Finder replacement ever!

use expect on local machine

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:22:57 -0400

use expect on local machine:

I thought I was going insane because expect_out didn’t exist and I was starting to loathe expect … and it turns out that all I needed was to

spawn sh

. There goes a day of searching for the wrong answer to

can’t read “expect_out(buffer)”: no such variable

Example 14-17. Using set with positional parameters

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:31:42 -0400

Example 14-17. Using set with positional parameters:

Interesting … how to fake out ‘getopts’ and maybe support short and long options without needing a different options processor.

non-greedy matching with sed

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:30:20 -0400

non-greedy matching with sed:

The trick to get non greedy matching in sed is to match all characters excluding the one that terminates the match. I know, a no-brainer, but I wasted precious minutes on it and shell scripts should be, after all, quick and easy. So in case somebody else might need it:
Greedy matching
% echo "foobar" | sed 's/<.*>//g'
bar
Non greedy matching
% echo "foobar" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
foobar

Or, if you want to echo the input without displaying -p password then use
echo $@ | sed 's/-p [^ ]* /-p **** /g'

Exit Codes With Special Meanings

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:35:21 -0400

Exit Codes With Special Meanings:

The author of this document proposes restricting user-defined exit codes [from bash shell scripts] to the range 64 - 113 (in addition to 0, for success)

Shell Scripting Exit Codes

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:21:48 -0400

Shell Scripting Exit Codes:

the construct is

command && command-to-execute-on-success || command-to-execute-on-failure

Only one command can be in each part, though the ( ) brackets make a subshell, which is treated as a single command by the top-level shell.

Fixing SIMBL

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:41:47 -0400

Fixing SIMBL:

Before the problem drives you crazy!

Try this command in Terminal. It sets up privilege of InputManagers folder. sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers

Attention Deficit Trait

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:34:08 -0400

Attention Deficit Trait:

In his book, CrazyBusy, Hallowell argues that Crackberry culture leads to ADD-like symptoms in people that don’t officially have the disorder—a problem he calls Attention Deficit Trait (ADT).

"According to Hugh A. Sampson, M.D., “Virtually all infants who develop cow’s milk allergy do so in..."

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:45:49 -0400

“According to Hugh A. Sampson, M.D., “Virtually all infants who develop cow’s milk allergy do so in the first year of life, with about 80% ‘outgrowing’ their milk allergy by their fifth birthday.” (Click here for more on this article by Dr. Sampson in FAAN’s “Food Allergy News”)”

- Outgrowing a Milk Allergy? - Wellsphere

"getting people to think about how to share data as opposed to how to consume..."

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:56:30 -0400

“getting people to think about how to share data as opposed to how to consume information.
…
let’s start thinking about what it would be like if we had access to all the data out there instead of just the information we’re given.”

- Looking for swine and the data society - Network World - Mark Gibbs
(Backspin column May 1, 2009)

"Repair Disk Permissions"

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:27:15 -0400

“Repair Disk Permissions”

- Fix fruux “Missing Sync Session” error

"A healthy culture includes breathing room for people to remark the emperor has no clothes; otherwise..."

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:02:00 -0400

“A healthy culture includes breathing room for people to remark the emperor has no clothes; otherwise inflated silliness will rise unchecked by common sense.”

- Joni Keller

iCal and Google Calendar Zen

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:10:19 -0400

iCal and Google Calendar Zen:

A cli into Google Calendar! Spiffy!

match and replace a tab

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:21:22 -0400

match and replace a tab:

I never can remember this one:

a real tab, entered by issuing a ^V^I ( control-V control-I )