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wmsystray, a notification area DockApp for WindowMaker

Many X apps these days require a system tray. GNOME and KDE have system tray applets enabled in their panels by default. WindowMaker doesn't have a panel. It supports DockApps, which are, of course, much cooler. :-P Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on April 08, 2009, at 22:04 | No comments

Increasing (encrypted) disk image size with dd

When you have a raw disk image file, you may need to increase its size at some point. With dd, you can do this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on April 03, 2009, at 10:04 | No comments

Encoding a motion jpg video produced by a canon A430 to xvid

mencoder, motion jpeg, xvid, canon a430 Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on March 31, 2009, at 19:03 | No comments

My Window Maker “desktop” configuration

During the ten years of my love-hate relationship with X-Windows, I've often tried and enjoyed using full-fledged desktop environment (starting with KDE and later sometimes GNOME too), but, given time, I always gravitate back to WindowMaker. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 30, 2009, at 13:03 | 3 comments

Mounting a MediaWiki installation with WikipediaFS for FUSE

Another one of those I-wish-I-had-blogged-about-this moments: I wanted to bulk-edit some pages in my Dutch Hardwood Wiki and I knew I had previously done some scripting using a FUSE filesystem for MediaWiki. However, I didn't remember the name of the filesystem I had used before. Searching for "mediawiki fuse" didn't help in any way. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 27, 2009, at 14:03 | No comments

Extracting the MP3 stream from a Flash Video (flv) file

I wanted to convert an Flash Video (flv) file from YouTube to MP3. The first tip I found essentially streamed the original file into a different file: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 10, 2009, at 21:03 | 2 comments

MediaWiki problems with MySQL VARBINARY padding

I have been wanting to protect a certain page on my Dutch 15Monkeys wiki for weeks. I could install the ReCaptcha extension already (the best Captcha there is), but it's just that one page that's being spammed. So far, I've been unsuccessful in regaining my Sysop right for that wiki. I need these rights if I'm going to protect these pages. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 09, 2009, at 14:03 | 2 comments

Wget one-liner

Earlier today, I wanted to download all songs by this totally kick-ass rap outfit: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 23, 2009, at 21:02 | No comments

Silent change in URLs of Ruby on Rails svn repository

I don't know why, but everything associated with Ruby on Rails seems to change all the time, without notice, or (in the case of URLs) without redirect. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on February 19, 2009, at 15:02 | 1 comment

WordPress feed pagination

Wiebe uses his author Atom feed to generate a list of his blog posts here on his own website. WordPress feeds only display the latest 10 entries. He has written 16 so far. What he needs is a feed with all his entries. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 16, 2009, at 23:02 | 1 comment