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Re: Let That Be a Lesson To You, Son: Never Upgrade.
Background: Jeff Atwood uses anecdotal evidence to show that Linux audio capabilities suck.
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Subversion checkout script
Here's a simple script to check out all subversion repositories on a remote host. It requires that you have SSH access on the host, to be able to fetch the repository names (otherwise you can hardcode them in
$repositories). You'll also need to have Perl installed. -
Subversion backup script
Following up on the good work of Jean-Francois Roy, here's my slightly extended version of his script (Update: sorry, the link is dead) to backup all Subversion repositories to a remote host.
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Recursive symbolic link creation script
This might be useful if you keep your settings (
.bashrc,.subversion/config, etc.) outside the home directory, like in a Subversion repository. Just copy the following script to the repository directory corresponding to $HOME and run
/path/to/make-links.sh
to create symlinks from~to each file in the repository, recursively. -
HOWTO: Synchronizing vCard address books with Nokia 6300 via Bluetooth on Ubuntu Linux
Edit: After learning a bit of
sedmagic, this is now a single script. -
ISO mount script for Nautilus & shell
Final update: This stuff has moved to GitHub - There's better code and information there.
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Reader's diggest: 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke
2001: Aliens have left a monolith to monitor and help mankind's evolution towards intelligence.
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How to serve vCards with the right encoding
It seems that some programs which recognize vCards only support the ISO-8859-1 character set. So if you're serving vCards on your web site, you might want to check if the encoding is correct. Try inserting a non-ASCII character like "å" in a note or address, and see if it comes out as a strange character when loading it from the web site.
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Convert XHTML to HTML with XSLT
After fiddling a bit with the "copy-no-ns" XSLT template, I've ended up with a style sheet which converts XHTML to HTML 4.01 (Update: Unfortunately this site is long gone. Sorry for the inconvenience!), so you can use it as a post-processing step when serving to Internet Explorer. Note that this has not been tested with alternative namespaces such as SVG or MathML.
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TED.com bloat
If you're a TED.com user, I'm pretty sure you've noticed the slow page loads compared to ... Well, just about any other site out there. I've sent some feedback (below), and I'm hoping you'll help out as well by suggesting general and specific improvements.