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blog@matijs.net (matijs) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:36:00 +0000

I was enthousiastic about noobkit for about a week. Finally an alternative to the rough style of Ruby’s standard API documentation.

Until I actually wanted to use it.

Most pages have a full width block of Google ads above the main content. This is just too much. For some methods, the text is one line. The ad block then is five times as big.

I’ll go back to using the old version, thanks.

[Also, the search function is not geared towards API documentation, but instead uses a generic Google-like method. Why not highlight the search results that actually describe the method or methods with the searched name?]

crontab -r

blog@matijs.net (matijs) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:27:00 +0000

I don’t use the crontab command on my own machines (I just put files in /etc/cron*), but recent experience on another machine made me wonder why crontab has the following options (this is from crontab --help):

-e      (edit user's crontab)
-l      (list user's crontab)
-r      (delete user's crontab)

Right. E is for edit, L is for list, R is for delete. Makes sense. And as a bonus, it is easier to accidentally delete your crontab when you want to edit it.

Brilliant.

Toxic Elephant : Tag usability, everything about usability

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crontab -r