Interacting via direct messages

You can interact with Remember The Milk via direct messages on Twitter. To add a task to your account, just send your rtm friend a direct message with the name of the task. You can also send one of the commands listed below to do more with your tasks.

If you're sending a message to Twitter via SMS or IM or the web update box, remember to add d rtm before your task name or command to indicate that it's a direct message. For example:

d rtm pick up the milk

d rtm !complete call jimmy

(If you're sending the message through the direct message web page on Twitter, you can leave off the d rtm part.)

Command list

You can direct message the following commands to rtm. You may receive a confirmation or info back via a return direct message.

Adding tasks

pick up the milk adds a new task with the specified name to the Inbox

call jimmy at 5pm tomorrow adds a new task with the specified name and due date to the Inbox

return library books in 2 weeks adds a new task with the specified name and due date to the Inbox

Sending tasks

@username pick up the milk sends task to the specified Twitter username (this person must be set up with Remember The Milk too)

Updating tasks

!complete call jimmy completes the specified task (shortcut: !c)

!postpone call jimmy postpones the specified task (shortcut: !p)

Getting tasks

!today gets tasks due today (shortcut: !tod)

!tomorrow gets tasks due tomorrow (shortcut: !tom)

!getdue friday gets tasks due on the specified date (shortcut: !gd)

!getlist personal gets tasks from the specified list (shortcut: !gl)

!gettag call gets tasks with the specified tag (shortcut: !gt)

!getlocation office gets tasks at the specified location (shortcut: !go)

Setting up

!on enables task reminders

!off disables task reminders

!help gets help info

!tips gets a list of commands

Useful Commands For The Linux Command Line

This short guide shows some important commands for your daily work on the Linux command line.

arch

$ arch

i686

cat

$ cat lorem.txt

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

cd

$ cd /bin

cksum

$ cksum lorem.txt moo.txt

3570240675 453 lorem.txt

4294967295 0 moo.txt

cp

$ cp lorem.txt copy_of_lorem.txt

date

$ date

Sat Mar 3 12:07:09 GMT 2007

df

$ df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on<br>

/dev/simfs            39845888    218048  39627840   1% /

du

$ du -h /bin

7.8M    /bin

echo

$ echo foobar

foobar

groups

$ groups

games users

hostname

$ hostname

anapnea.net

id

$ id

uid=1478(smallfoot) gid=100(users) groups=35(games),100(users)

man

$ man bash

md5sum

$ md5sum lorem.txt

56da9e37259af34345895883e6fd1a27  lorem.txt

mkdir

$ mkdir foobar

mv

$ mv lorem.txt ipsum.txt

ping

$ ping -c 2 127.0.0.1

PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms



--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.048/0.050/0.052/0.002 ms

ps

$ ps

  PID TTY          TIME CMD

21542 pts/12   00:00:00 bash

27706 pts/12   00:00:00 ps

pwd

$ pwd

/home/smallfoot

sha1sum

$ sha1sum lorem.txt

c942ddebd142ec8bacac9213d48096e74bab4957  lorem.txt

stat

$ stat lorem.txt

  File: `lorem.txt'

  Size: 453             Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file

Device: 77h/119d        Inode: 27312217    Links: 1

Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1478/smallfoot)   Gid: (  100/   users)

Access: 2007-03-03 12:24:39.000000000 +0000

Modify: 2007-03-03 12:24:39.000000000 +0000

Change: 2007-03-03 12:24:39.000000000 +0000

rm

$ rm lorem.txt

rmdir

$ rmdir foobar

touch

$ touch lorem.txt

tty

$ tty

/dev/pts/16

uname

$ uname -a

Linux anapnea.net 2.6.9 #1 SMP Wed Jul 19 16:24:18 MSD 2006 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

uptime

$ uptime

 14:50:26 up 7 days, 17:52, 18 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01

w

$ w

 12:14:30 up 5 days, 15:16, 19 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT

charlie  pts/0     Fri21    3:26m  2.52s  2.52s irssi

alice    pts/2     Wed17   30:21m  0.00s  0.00s -bash

emma     pts/4     11:37   36:57   0.00s  0.00s -bash

frank    pts/5     11:48   11:03   0.00s  0.00s -bash

smallfoo pts/12    12:01    0.00s  0.04s  0.01s w

wc

$ wc -l lorem.txt

7 lorem.txt

who

$ who

charlie  pts/0        Mar  2 21:37 (xtreme-11-65.acme.com)

alice    pts/2        Feb 28 17:48 (147.21.16.3)

emma     pts/4        Mar  3 11:37 (32.84-48-181.uac.com)

frank    pts/5        Mar  3 11:48 (port-212-202-233-2.foobar.org)

smallfoot pts/12       Mar  3 12:01 (c-12776f4.cust.example.net)

whoami

$ whoami

smallfoot

Tips/Default Commands

Start the console: mysql

List all databases: show databases;

Switch to a database: use $dbname;

List tables in a current database: show tables;

List columns in a given table: describe $tablename;

Setting permissions to a database: GRANT SELECT ON $database.* TO '$user_name'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '$password';

Deleting rows: delete from $db.$table where $condition;

Selects: select count(*) from $db.$table;

Altering a table:

ALTER TABLE get_cookie_log ADD COLUMN log_id INT(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, ADD PRIMARY KEY(log_id);`
ALTER TABLE get_cookie_log ADD COLUMN log_id INT(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, ADD INDEX(log_id);`
ALTER TABLE verify_reg_code_log ADD COLUMN log_id INT(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, ADD INDEX(log_id);`

Backup database: mysqldump $database [[-all] | [$table]]s >$file-name.sql

Import database:

mysql -e "DROP DATABASE $db; CREATE DATABASE $db;"
mysql $databasename <$file-name.sql