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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, 1 decade ago, on March 30, 2009, at 13:03 | 7 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, 1 decade ago, on March 27, 2009, at 14:03 | 1 comment

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, 1 decade 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, 1 decade 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, 1 decade ago, on February 23, 2009, at 21:02 | Comments closed

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, 1 decade 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, 1 decade ago, on February 16, 2009, at 23:02 | 1 comment

Jock itch: my cock itch

Ok, so according to the family doctor it was never a fungal infection (which a jock itch is), but really eczema. Nobody knows what that is. Whatever. I'm not a doctor. It itches and it affects my cock, so I am just going to refer to it as my cock itch. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on February 16, 2009, at 04:02 | 1 comment

Using ROT13 to circumvent Gmail’s .exe filter

Wiebe reminded me by mail to send him a Windows executable. I use Gmail. Gmail doesn't allow me to send archives containing .exe files. Something to do with viruses on Windows. Wiebe doesn't use Windows. He uses Wine. I just want to send the damn executable. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on February 11, 2009, at 21:02 | Comments closed

xwd, the best X11 screen grabbing tool

xwd (1) is my favorite screen capture program for X Windows. Usage is simple: "xwd|xwdtopnm|pnmtopng>/tmp/screen.png" Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on February 11, 2009, at 14:02 | 1 comment