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Tool: Twitter RSS Feed Getter
Update: Now this uses my new TwitRSS.me tool. Please donate and keep TwitRSS.me online.User: With replies?: Love it or loathe it, it looks like Twitter is likely to remain an important part of the infrastructure of the interwebs for some time. Bac …
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Projects
First thing, I have taken a fairly liberal interpretation of what a project is. So, a project might be a little hack I did one weekend, or something I made, or it might be a bit of work that I’ve done as a volunteer or even a bit of paid work that I’ve done. Well, I think you get th …
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Vimperator Tip: Cut and paste with ctrl—c/ctrl—v
I’m a huge fan of the Vimperator Firefox plugin. It works just like you'd want it to and doesn't break much. Well, it breaks one useful thing, which is the almost universal ctrl-c/ctrl-v cut and paste shortcuts. So, I was well chuffed to find a Vimperator cut and paste tip on superuser. I̵ …
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Thunderbird/Icedove sort order and delete order on Debian Squeeze
Its true. By default Icedove (that’s Thunderbird to non-Debianists) puts the newest emails at the bottom of the message list. This is wrong and evil (I may be exaggerating). It took me a while to find the proper solution and then a bit longer to figure out I needed to delete the .msf …
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Debian Tip: Get a list of all installed packages with dpkg
I like to make sure that I always have a listing of all the files I have on my Debian boxen. Fortunately dpkg has a quick way of doing just that. # dpkg --get-selections > /path/to/mybackup.txt I run that once a day or so as a cron job dumping to a file, that file will be in my usual rsync backup. …
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SSH Tip: Proxy your browser with SSH
I was just now trying to see how the New Internationalist website might look from Canada, to test some GeoIP set up that we’re working on. So I used a trick that I mainly use when I’m browsing the interwebs from public WiFi networks. Given the emergence of tools like Firesheep, whic …
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