Category: Technology

Correcting Spamassassins stale mirror configuration

My spamassassin updates daily by running sa-update. Recently, I've been getting failure notices that mirror spamassassin.kluge.net was no longer available. This was because of a known bug, apparantly. So, I deleted the MIRROR.BY file and ran sa-update again. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on June 19, 2009, at 10:06 | No comments

Adding locales in Ubuntu

I wanted the dates on my Kubuntu system to be shown as Dutch dates. Therefore, I needed to add a locale. The place to do it is in /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local. It now contains this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on June 16, 2009, at 11:06 | No comments

Gentoo update: WiFi drivers (iwl4965)

When I got the Wireless working on this laptop (a Lenovo T61), I was using Linux kernel 2.6.25. I remember that it was quite a pain, because the iwlwifi stuff had only just stabilized enough to replace the (now deprecated) ipw stuff. One of the things I didn't get working at the time was Monitor mode. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 11, 2009, at 11:06 | No comments

Customizing Google AdSense alternate ads

When AdSense runs out of inspiration (i.e.: no targeted ads are available), it displays public service ads by default. You can choose to replace this with a custom ad of your own choosing. To do this, you have to put a HTML page somewhere and change the alternate ads settings for the appropriate ad unit: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 10, 2009, at 16:06 | 3 comments

Complete WordPress Atom feed: an XSLT transformation

Previously, I tried obtaining a full Atom feed without pagination from WordPress. I didn't succeed, so I ended up writing an XSL transformation which merges all the pages of this Atom feed into one valid Atom XML stream. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 10, 2009, at 15:06 | 2 comments

Enforcing Drupal URL aliases

I hate modules, especially core modules. I prefer code to be tightly integrated. I want it to work together. Is that too much to ask? In Drupal, most functionality has been stuffed in modules. There's a Locale module, a Content Translation module and a Path module. What's missing is a Working Together module. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 10, 2009, at 14:06 | 13 comments

Gentoo update: system

This Gentoo box needs upgrading badly. I started this in February, so perhaps it's time to continue. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 09, 2009, at 22:06 | No comments

With Vimperator it almost feels as if I can control Firefox

Wednesday, after returning to Groningen from Barcelona, I saw Ying using Vimperator. I was sold immediately. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 07, 2009, at 23:06 | 4 comments

Drupal 5 image management

Today, I have to face the task of finding reliable Drupal 6 modules for image uploading and WYSIWYG editing, so I dug into my drafts bin and found an old unfinished post dated March 24, 2008 about a similar quest for Drupal 5: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on May 27, 2009, at 10:05 | No comments

Styling XML SVN logs with CSS

My friend, Wiebe, keeps his website in Subversion. (Always keep your project files in version management or you'll be sorry.) He used to manually track the date with the last significant change in each file (because who cares about typos, right?). But, of course, he kept forgetting to update this when he actually made such changes. So, he decided that he wanted to publish the full SVN log for each page. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on May 26, 2009, at 10:05 | 1 comment