I’ve recently taken a fancy to Mephisto, a blogging-platform written in Rails. I have nothing against Wordpress, but being in Ruby and using Liquid for themes, Mephisto is far easier (and more fun) to tweak and configure, especially when I want to migrate my sites away from the “blog look” and make them more dynamic. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mephisto for the Masses - Installation howto", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/10/mephisto-for-the-masses-installation-howto/" });
Mac OS X is capable of intelligently detecting whether a cat5 cable is connected to a network device or to another PC. When connected to another PC, it will (digitally) flip the pins to “emulate” a cat5 crossover cable.
Here’s an example on how to share files between a Macbook and another box (XP, Linux etc). [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sharing Files Locally Without a Crossover Cable on OS X", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/10/sharing-files-locally-without-a-crossover-cable-on-os-x/" });
I was staring at the 30+ RapidShare tabs I have open, annoyed that I had to keep waiting for the countdown timer before starting each download. The problem was that I kept forgetting about the countdown and the downloads altogether (30 second timer + Geek-ADD… impossible). It literally took me 10+ hours to get one [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fetching Lots of Small Files from RapidShare? Tip to Save Time", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/09/downloading-lots-of-small-files-from-rapidshare-heres-a-tip-to-save-time/" });
There are plenty of ways to save pictures you find on Flickr. One way of doing so (in Firefox) is right-clicking the browser page and heading to View Page Info -> Media. This is too much work.
Flickr layers a transparent file named spaceball.gif - a 43 byte 1×1 px file - over some images, rendering [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bypassing spaceball.gif When Savings Images From Flickr", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/09/bypassing-spaceballgif-when-savings-images-from-flickr/" });
Vim 7.2 beta was released last month, and 7.2 is now stable. First check to see if your distro offers a package, and if not, follow these simple instructions on how to install it from source, from the vim7.2 subversion branch.
cd /tmp/
svn co https://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/branches/vim7.2
cd vim7.2/
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 --enable-cscope --enable-pythoninterp
make
Now you can use sudo make install [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Easily Installing Vim 7.2 From Source", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/08/easily-installing-vim-72-edge-from-source/" });
I had used Trac 0.10.4 for awhile before upgrading to 0.11. First time around I had no problems, but on a new server, a fresh install of 0.11.1 was giving me this error when I visit certain pages:
[Sun Aug 10 19:41:57 2008] [error] [client 69.204.200.139] PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend: Traceback (most recent call last):, referer: http://issues.biodegradablegeek.com/congen9
[Sun Aug [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Workaround for “ImportError: cannot import name compat” issue in Trac 0.11.x", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/08/workaround-for-importerror-cannot-import-name-compat-issue-in-trac-011x/" });
If you are experiencing segmentation faults with vim and rails.vim, it may be due to this bug, which appeared after 1.7.127, but has been resolved in 1.7.147 (patch log).
To check if your installation has this bug, type the following (cred goes to Ralph) in vim: :r ~fo<tab> (’fo’ being the start of a username present [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Has vim/rails.vim been crashing lately? Here’s why.", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/08/has-vimrailsvim-been-crashing-lately-heres-why/" });
Hardware acceleration is not available in fullscreen mode for Linux yet, at least not with Adobe’s Flash 9.x plugin. This isn’t much of a problem with small videos, but it results in choppy, sluggish playback in fullscreen mode. Fortunately, there’s a simple way around this while we wait for Adobe to address the issue.
Workaround
If [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Speed Up Fullscreen Flash Playback in Linux", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/how-to-speed-up-fullscreen-flash-playback-in-linux/" });
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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