There is nothing special with GitHub and Gitorious here. This technique would work exactly the same the other way around or with other servers. In a nutshell # Inital setup git clone --mirror git://gitorious.org/weasyprint/weasyprint.git weasyprint ...
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol which works on the basis of "tickets" to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. (Source Kerberos_(protocol) ) Backups Create backup: ...
Quick reference article for how to use Emacs. Yes, it is really old skool! Cursor Motion ...
A bunch of recipes useful for an ArchLinux system environment. Mostly around system administration. Custom Repos and Packages In the repo directory, put all the packages in there. repo-add ./custom.db.tar.gz ./* ...
Notes on doing different things within the PHP language. Object oriented introspection property_exists(obj,prop_name) method_exists(obj,method_name) is_a(obj,'clas_name') or ($obj instanceof ClassName) ...
Instructions on how to remove DRM from E-Books and videos. How to Remove DRM from Ebooks (and Back Up Your Library Permanently) The easiest way to strip DRM from Kindle books (and Barnes and Noble, Adobe Digital Content, etc) is with the free ebook software Calibre, DRM removal plugins, and a copy of the Kindle desktop software (PC/Mac). These directions are for Kindle, but will work with Barnes and Noble, Adobe Digital Editions, and older formats. Here's what you need to do: Download Calibre, the the plugins, and the Kindle Desktop software. Unzip the contents of the plugin directory. ...
This article describes how you creeate hyperlinks within Wordpress. There are a number of ways to do this, depending on the configuration and the types of data we are linking to. Linking Without Using Permalinks This actually works whether or not Permalinks are active. Using the numeric values found in the ID column of the Posts, Categories, and Pages Administration, you can create links as follows. Posts ...
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Some notes on GNU Make. I always have to look-up these in the manual. Here now for my own convenience. GNU Make automatic variables: From http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Automatic-Variables.html. $@ ...
Use DVCS as backend (GIT) Output html markdown Prefer perl/python Mostly RO so to avoid merge conflicts. ...
Recipe for cleaning a google calendar. Sign in to Google Calendar Click on Calendar Settings (current version has this just above the list of personal calendars, under an arrow). Click on "Delete" of the main calendar. A confirmation dialog box appears telling you that that "This deletes all events on primary Calendar". ...
When using virtualisation it is very common to create template VMs that can be cloned from. This makes deployment much easier than having to install a new VM from scratch. Unfortunately, the cloned VMs lack any Active Directory memberships and the VMs have to be manually added to the AD domain. For automated deployment scenarios this is less than desirable. This recipe intends to solve that issue in a ...
This is for SATA and IDE interfaces that do not automatically detect added/removed devices. Scanning for newly added discs: echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan safely removing a disk echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/delete ...
Finding icons: iconfinder. In 2023 I am using: icons8 This allows to download icons in different formats, and also allows you to do tweaks such as: ...
A collection of links for Web-Authoring. This focuses on using Web (HTML and CSS) technologies directly and not through a CMS like Wordpress. http://www.webestools.com/ Free online tools, generators, services, scripts, tutorials. ...
After a long time in Limbo we are back with 0ink.net as a live site. ...
Determine what is the local PERL5LIB configuration: LIB=$( for d in `tr : ' ' <<<$PERL5LIB do if [ -w $d ] ; then echo $d ...
Miscellaneous hacks to use the keyboard under Linux. Special Characters on X11 The compose key, when pressed in sequence with other keys, produces a Unicode character. E.g., in most configurations pressing Compose e ``` produces é. Compose keys appeared on some computer keyboards decades ago, especially those produced by Sun Microsystems. However, ...
This is a handy tip. If you don't want to give out your real email address to register for a site and don't want to go through the hassle of creating a spam email address, just point your browser to Guerrilla Mail upon loading the page you'll have an automatically assigned email ...
Start working on a Topic Branch Keep Topic Branch current Merge a Topic Branch Start working on a HotFix Keep HotFix Branch current ...