Category: General

Upcoming Firefox books

Neil Deakin has collected the titles of upcoming Firefox books. Firefox and Thunderbird Garage by Chris Hofmann, Marcia Knous and John Hedtke Firefox for Dummies by Blake Ross Firefox Hacks by Nigel McFarlane Kurt Cagle's Firefox...

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Numbered backups in jed

Cool. I'd been wanting to have this for a while. Turns out that it is built into jed. Just put this in your .jedrc: backups_on (); % numbered backups instead of just ~ - see backups.sl Instead of foo~, now you get foo.~1~,...

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Accessing a remote CVS server over ssh

A lot of pages discuss using the pserver method to remotely access CVS, but my web hosting provider doesn't allow pserver and I have a shell account anyway so I just wanted to use ssh. It's quite easy once you know the trick -...

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Are there any podcasts that don’t suck?

Yesterday, I decided to see what the fuss about podcasting is about. I downloaded iPodder and subscribed to 10 or so feeds. I listened to them this morning and they pretty much all sucked. They were amateurish and rambling and...

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USM is pretty cool

What is USM? Answer here I installed the USM Windows Reference Installer from this page and chose My Yahoo! as my RSS reader. Now I can click feed:// URLs (like this one) and they get added automatically. That's pretty cool...

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Knoppix 3.8 torrent

Knoppix torrent http://www.boegenielsen.dk:6969/ http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents/...

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