Author: johayek
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WordPress: how do I remove “Uncategorized” from posts with more than 1 category?
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/232436/how-do-i-remove-uncategorized-from-posts-with-more-than-1-category A couple of months ago I had a bad plugin installed for a couple of days, and it deliberately removed categories from my posted articles. In the meantime I added proper categories again more or less systematically, but those articles where still tainted with the category “Uncategorized“. Now this is a way to clean…
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how to move files from one git repo to another (not a clone), preserving history
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365541/how-to-move-files-from-one-git-repo-to-another-not-a-clone-preserving-history http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-another-preserving-history/
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my ‘git log’ shows plain ESC sequences – how to get this right?
http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-log-escape-symbols-shown-as-ESC-33-and-ESC-m-td7602089.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25332598/how-to-suppress-display-of-escape-sequences-in-diff Until right now my LESS environment variable did not include “R” for passing through ANSI codes. Solutions: Either I add “R” explicitly, or I start git w/o LESS in its environment: $ env LESS=-MMiR git log $ env -u LESS git log
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rcs2git using Perl, Ruby, AWK
https://github.com/knuta/rcs2git – using Perl https://github.com/JochenHayek/rcs2git – using Perl – I forked knuta’s version https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/simple-rcs2git – using AWK https://github.com/Oblomov/rcs-fast-export – using Ruby https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619737/migrate-project-from-rcs-to-git
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Microsoft Windows and the X Window System — new title: updating my cygwin installation left me in trouble again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel $ startxwin I usually prefer the rootless way. My applications nowadays “usually” run on a Linux (Debian, …) system or AIX. Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately. I had no idea, that startxwin uses this start-up file: /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc . The last utility called there usually makes X wait…
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is there a multi-tab terminal replacement for Cygwin’s terminal?
https://superuser.com/questions/264901/is-there-a-multi-tab-terminal-replacement-for-cygwins-terminal
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how to list files of a Debian package (without installing it)?
https://superuser.com/questions/82923/how-to-list-files-of-a-debian-package-without-install $ dpkg -c package_file.deb # -c = –contents
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*most* of my blog posts get shown w/o category resp. “Uncategorized”
why is this? I searched the web for help, tried to “repair” the table mentioned there, but to no success. the only plug-in I had installed a little before was this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-to-bible/ it did not work the way I expected it to work, so I disabled it anyway. because of the warnings regarding misbehaving…