Author: johayek
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to proselytize
For those, that don’t trust me (again), that there is no such word: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proselytize . For some reason I prefer this word over the similar http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evangelize . Right, they don’t actually show the some progress of the process (ROTFL!!!), but they go to the same direction. @szabgab: I had to think of you and p-e-r-l,…
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a new wonderful book on DocBook by Norman Walsh: “DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide”
Norman is an excellent writer, and it’s good fun reading his books. If you are interested in DocBook, then get this book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449389604 = DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide – O’Reilly Media I purchased the PDF recently from O’Reilly, and I just printed a single page for a friend, who looks like being my newest DocBook proselyte.
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duplicating a tab in Firefox
Came across this recently whilst browsing one of those magazines. What would you need this for? Well, if I have my Google Mail Contacts open and I want to write a message to one of my contacts, but I also still want to keep … Contacts open – you never know, how long it takes…
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keyboard shortcuts on all the major operating systems
For the last couple of months I have been struggling with the keyboard of my beloved MacBook Pro. How often did I click on “Show Keyboard Viewer“? And it still didn’t really help on the long run. Today I did some respective “research”, and here are the links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts / comparison of keyboard shortcuts – that’s…
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using curl for “streaming” Flash movies into a file on your hard disk
<!– www.bibleserver.com | 521: Web server is down body{margin:0;padding:0} <!–[if lte IE 9]>/cdn-cgi/scripts/jquery.min.js<![endif]–> /cdn-cgi/scripts/zepto.min.js<!– /cdn-cgi/scripts/cf.common.js Error 521 Ray ID: 3a8c60d04b412342 • 2017-10-05 00:48:56 UTC Web server is down You Browser Working Frankfurt Cloudflare Working www.bibleserver.com Host Error What happened? The web server is not returning a connection. As a result, the web page is not…
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activating the Meta key for the Terminal app under Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I just came across a description on how to do this, which seems far outdated and just not working. So I thought, I would let you know, how it really works with Snow Leopard. Here you see the window, that pops up for Terminal’s Preferences menue entry: You can see the Use option as meta…
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“rake”, the ruby DSL, improved
Well, I started using rake instead of make in 2007, when I got ruby infected. I noticed then, that rake’s output is a little “dis-arranged” (the entire “command” came printed in one single line). That changed in the meantime, at least now with 0.8.7 it is just the way I like it. Thank you to…
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Google Mail Contacts is my personal killer app
Serious!!! Once again: it syncs with the iPhone address book. I use it for reverse look up (phone number to address book entry) together with my telephone system in my home office, and that’s build around an AVM “FRITZ!Box“. The glue software got implemented by myself in ruby (w/o Rails). Why ruby? I thought, I…
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my own “tiny” Facebook security leak
I started using a Facebook “Profile Badge” here on this blog quite a while ago. Today I noticed, that all my Facebook status updates got shown here on that Profile Badge in the right column of this blog. Believe me: I seriously hurried removing that field “Status updates” from my Facebook Profile Badge. To be…