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19 Feb, 2010

Juan Corbett it’s all in the name?

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So, what would it take to rank for Juan Corbett’s name? Perhaps having a Hacker News profile of juancorbett or maybe making an email address for juancorbett@alicious.com would do it?

14 Oct, 2009

Turn off Akonadi on KDE4

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If you’re being bugged by the kres-migrator wanting to move your resources over to akonadi, but like me are not using the KDE PIM apps (KMail, KOrganizer, KContactManager, KPilot, etc.) then here’s what to do.

Let people visit your site rather than be hijacked by Digg? Here’s how. All Digg links now are served within an IFRAME this code breaks out of the frames and leaves only your site there.

07 Apr, 2009

Topographical web page view

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Hide content and show structure using an overriding stylesheet – it’s kinda like a reverse “reset” stylesheet – this was inspired by the Firefox Webdeveloper Toolbar by Chris Pederick but is intended to create a more obvious structure and to show off user interaction elements.

form parts like textarea and input are green
links are blue
headers are [...]

Following a question about Inkscape and support for cutting plotters by Cricut, , I’ve looked at some cutting software from SCAL ( craftedge.com ) and Cricut and am having a bit of a What-The-Flip moment.
SCAL & Cricut plotting and cutting applications
The Cricut cutting machines are apparently “serial” [ie RS232] with a USB to serial interface [...]

20 Oct, 2008

Piping ls through less with colors

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Here’s one you may have pondered, can you pipe ls through less and keep the colours? Well, yes, yes you can and you can even set it up to work just by typing “ls”.
Well the answer is in the man pages, from “man ls”:



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