Month: July 2010
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Ruby 1.9.2 gets a second release candidate – The H Open Source: News and Features
Ruby 1.9.2 gets a second release candidate – The H Open Source: News and Features … According to the developers, the final version is expected to arrive in August …
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defunct Ethernet cables because of broken “thingie”
Over the last many years quite some of my Ethernet cables got defunct because of that broken “thingie”, which should in theory make the plug stay in the jack. If you don’t replace the plug yourself (which looks quite difficult to me), you can just through the entire cable away. No shop offers a service…
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this seems to be a “LinkedIn Day”
There are calm days, and there are awfully calm days, this one is not – like half a dozen of “friends” today confirmed my add for them resp. requested me to confirm their add.
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DocBook Berlin – created the Google Group for the 1st regional DocBook User Group
I am very excited about this. There is an exploding number of web views on that Google Group. Keep your fingers crossed, that there will be frequent activities soon. DocBook Website is going to revolutionise the activities necessary to set up static and almost static web-sites, it will not stay the gold mine for a few…
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how to browse music?
Today resp. just now I found “yet another time …“, that browsing my music library in iTunes / on the iPod / on the iPhone “by genre” is much more fun, then browsing by name on my file system – what a surprise! Yet I still insist, that my music library has to be kept…
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editing XML documents in emacs using nxml-mode
One good reason for not not authoring in XML is not having a suitable editor or IDE. I personally use and recommend emacs and James Clark‘s nxml-mode. I create and modify all sorts of XML documents this way. If you supply nxml-mode with the right schema for your document, nxml-mode can even help you with tag completion and document…
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DocBook Slides
If you really are into XML, if you even write your documents in XML ie. DocBook, then you will love DocBook Slides: The Slides Document Type is an XML vocabulary derived from DocBook. It is used to create presentations (slides, foils, whatever you call them) in HTML or print. Presentations are by nature visual and…
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want to get signalled, when a command line job on your computer is done?
I have a long list of cpanm jobs, don’t want to put them in a batch all toghether, and want to get signalled, when each of them is done: $ while true; do beep; done In my case the beep is acutally just the flashing of an xterm window. Update: Yes, notify-send is far, far,…
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GNU Coreutils “seq”
the manual page. Why do I keep forgetting the name of this wonderful little helper? seq prints a sequence of numbers to standard output. Synopses: seq [option]… last seq [option]… first last seq [option]… first increment last seq prints the numbers from first to last by increment. By default, each number is printed on a separate line. When increment is not specified, it defaults…