Posts
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WordPress update script
This is a script to update a WordPress blog with the latest stable version from Subversion.
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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
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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.