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111 Geekery articles in total, showing 41 to 50
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Magento tip: Working on success page without having to place an order
The other day I needed to make a trivial change in the checkout page in the New iNternationalist ethical shop. I always want to visually test a page before rolling it out live. I know how easy it is to mess up the position of an angle bracket or something! Normally you can only see the checkout s …
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Allow mixed https/http content on Iceweasel/Firefox 23 and above
Since version 23, Firefox has started blocking mixed content — pieces of an HTML page that are delivered over an insecure, unencrypted connection when browsing an SSL-encrypted page. Now this is probably the right thing to do. Most of the time. And there is a subtle little shield thingum …
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Tech briefing: CSS book, Node.js and some other javascript tools
This is a writeup of my notes from my August reading day and might therefore be less coherent than my usual ramblings on the site. I read a book called Everything you know about CSS is wrong! and then moved on to some research on node.js which seems to be the thing that all the web hipsters are l …
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Navigating your bash history. A quick reference.
One of the ways to make yourelf more productive and to save unnecessary typing in the bash shell is to get familiar with navigating your history. There are a number of ways to navigate your bash history beyond simply using the up arrow to get at your last command. This is a quick reference to some o …
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Solved: Hackers Keyboard keys invisible on Onda v972 with Android 4.2
tl;dr The Hackers Keyboard app doesn’t play well with the Onda v972 tablet running Android 4.2.2. I made an apk which allows you to scale the key labels bigger so that you can read them. Grab a copy of Hackers Keyboard with improved keyboard label scaling.Last night I upgraded my Onda v972 t …
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Anonymous Public DNS with OpenNIC
The Domain Name System (DNS) is like a phone book — you send a query to a server that says what is the number for charlieharvey.org.uk? and it sends back an IP address. Nowadays lots of people use either their ISP’s DNS server or one of the public DNS servers like Google’s 8.8.8 …
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Magento tip: How many and which products are in abandoned carts
I wanted to get an abandoned carts report in Magento the other day. What I wanted to see was what SKUs were in carts and how many of each SKU. A long search turned up nothing of use, so I went straight to the database and started typing SQL. In the end this is what I got and it seems reasonably c …
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Stegospam: Hiding messages in spam for fun and mischief
tl;dr GCHQ/NSA seem to keep encrypted data but throw away spam. I made a tool that lets you hide your encrypted data in spam. In recent weeks it has emerged that GCHQ and NSA have been spying not only on their political allies, but on the population in general. Many of us are shocked, if unsur …
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Hack: Simply Scheme as a single pdf with wget and pdftk
There’s an introductory Scheme programming book called Simply Scheme that is available online for free. I wanted to brush up on my Scheme recently as part of writing my own implementation of the language in Haskell. However, the book is only available as html or as pdfs of the chapters. Whi …
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Stop MediaWiki thinking that a .ppt is a .doc
New Internationalist, along with teacher friends Linda Ruas and John Shepheard runs an Easier English wiki, which provides simplified versions of many of the stories from New Internationalist magazine. We are just running MediaWiki, nothing fancy. A few weeks ago after upgrading MediaWiki we hit …
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