I'm playing with g-cpan to try to install WordPress::Post in Gentoo without causing the usual mess.
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Rowan Rodrik, 4 days ago, on
February 05, 2010, at 03:02 |
With my big blog redesign, I wanted a auto-growing comment box. In the past, I've written a nice auto-resize textarea JavaScript function which does just that, but with jQuery belonging to the standard equipment of WordPress these days, I thought it would be cooler to find a nice jQuery plugin to do this.
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Rowan Rodrik, 4 days ago, on
February 04, 2010, at 21:02 |
For some reason, Debian can't do "/etc/init.d/iptables save". So, we have to fix something ourselves. I used this article as source, which also has some useful comments. Apparently, the iptables initscript used to exist...
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halfgaar, 6 days ago, on
February 03, 2010, at 14:02 |
I'm scanning old Flor y Fauna news letters for my Dutch Hardwood Investment Wiki. I need to do this because most of these newsletters, although produced digitally, are available in the Sicirec archive only in paper form. The only graphical item these news-letters sport is a simple graphical header, so I want to convert the scans to text and put the text in a wiki article for each newsletter; I don't want to upload dozens of image-heavy PDFs just to show the original (crappy) layout.
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Rowan Rodrik, 6 days ago, on
February 02, 2010, at 17:02 |
In this WordPress installation I have a problem with my admin menu. If I add clear: left; to the rules for #adminmenu li.menu-top it appears to be fixed.
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Rowan Rodrik, 7 days ago, on
February 02, 2010, at 11:02 |
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is on-line free MIT text-book that uses Scheme in an attempt to give the reader a general and practical understanding of programming.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 week ago, on
February 01, 2010, at 01:02 |
Matriux is a fully featured security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open source and free tools that can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network administration, cyber forensics investigations, security testing, vulnerability analysis, and much more.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 week ago, on
February 01, 2010, at 00:02 |
I just stumbled across the following post while trying to find out how to copy text from VIM using XSel without losing the selected text. It introduces Pipe Viewer, a Unix utility which is a kind of cat with a progress bar.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 week ago, on
February 01, 2010, at 00:02 |
Just a a kind of bookmark, I used this blog post as a base to find out how to install Windows as a DomU on Xen. I might at some point reconstruct my steps, but for now this link is all... (judging by the URL the blog won't exist much longer, but oh well...)
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halfgaar, 1 week ago, on
February 01, 2010, at 00:02 |
Since I first learned that Windowmaker installs two command-line tools,
wxcopy and wxpaste, to play around with X selections, I have wanted to be able to make and use X selections from my Bash shell. wxcopy and wxpaste never did what I expected them to do, so I gave up until recently I learned about all the different X selections.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 week ago, on
January 31, 2010, at 23:01 |
