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CPAN on OSX

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:53:42 +0100

http://triopter.com/archive/how-to-install-perl-modules-on-mac-os-x-in-4-easy-steps/

Block those f*cking Youtube annotations

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:46:58 +0100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIuxWSlJUck

Get round Word document protection

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:51 +0100

Had to get round protection in a Word document recently. Found this trivial fix: http://mediakey.dk/~cc/crack-or-recover-read-only-password-protected-word-document/ Why bother protecting it if it is that easy to crack honestly?

Cool shirts

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:56:13 +0100

Some very nice T-Shirts - http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/

14 myths of technical authoring

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:57:41 +0100

Interesting article : http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/06/26/myths-myths-myths-about-technical-writing/#more-1639

TV

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:54:23 +0100

Theater is life, cinema is art, television is furniture. - Anon

Stephen Fry on England

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:00:26 +0100

"This country is run by idiots. We know that because we sat next to them at school." The man is a genius, and if you haven't listened to his podgrams then you've missed out.

Magnets

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:39:30 +0100

Amazing magnet shop - http://www.supermagnete.ch

Desktop Backgrounds

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:42:21 +0100

Ever on the lookout for fresh desktop background images I came across these recently: http://www.mybestdesktops.com/ http://www.caedes.net/ Both examples of good, non-commercial, non-clutter sites where the default looks like one of those mobile phone ringtone ads in the back of a glossy magazine.

Prevent DS_Store files being created on remote volumes

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:33:55 +0100

Apple have written an article detailing how to stop .DS_Store files being created on remote volumes: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

vi - search replace with command

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:51:53 +0100

To search for a string, and then perform a vi command : :g/string/command for instance: :%g/endofline$/join will search for the string "endofline$" and then append the next line to any line that matches. Vim documentation: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/

Matias - Tactile Pro

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:26 +0100

I've been using the Matias Tactile Pro keyboard for a while now. Wondefull old school clacky feel to it. However one of the feet broke. Quick email to the guys at Matias and they are sending me a replacement. Now there's service. Thanks guys!

Odile Kinart

Thu, 29 May 2008 22:31:00 +0100

I love these sculptures: http://www.okinart.com/

smpatch access to remote servers

Fri, 02 May 2008 15:12:58 +0100

The more recent versions of Solaris come with an online patching utility smpatch. This requires access to various servers on the public Internet. I cannot find any definitive documentation on exactly which servers are accessed, the documentation only suggests updates.sun.com, but this is patently not the whole story. There seems to be a system of redirects and load balancers in place that mean a bunch of other servers might be queried as well. This makes creating outbound firewall rule sets difficult. So far I have made up the following list. The /24 networks are not entirely necessary, but I'd rather be a little generous here than having to add IPs to my rule set every time I want to patch. Access does seem to be restricted to port 443.

72.5.124.61
80.231.19.70
80.231.19.71
195.176.255.0/24
198.232.168.0/24

Shell - Test for argument

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:28:55 +0100

I always forget this and spend ages finding out how to do it. How to test for an argument passed from the command line to a shell script, and not get "argument expected" error: if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo argument expected exit 1 fi The secret is the quotes around the $1.