I write about Linux, Debian, Windows, general geeky stuff, making things and just about everything.
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Sune Vuorela wrote a post asking people to make sure their private hacks become public. That inspired me to publish Expadirk. Expadirk is my solution to my accounting software provider requiring me to purchase yet more proprietary software in order to…
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Piwik GPL web analytics
Piwik is an open source (GPLed) web analytics program. It looks very comprehensive. I will endeavour to install it and test it out soon. I’ll report back on it when I do. There is also a WordPress plugin for Piwik.…
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Emacs Rocks videos
Magnar from @emacsrocks has produced some really nice emacs demos. They confirm my emacs tragic status. I hope to one day be 1/10th as good as Magnar. I found the video about multiple-cursors particularly fascinating. In fact all the videos are…
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I broke my favourite mug
About 18 or so years ago (I can’t believe it was that long ago) a friend (Jules, drop me a line if you read this?) from Canberra gave me this mug. She picked mugs with similar messages for me, Damo…
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Import historical data from Apache logs into AWStats
One of my clients had a problem where the last 6 months of data was not in Google Analytics. Upon investigating it turned out that for some reason the WordPress Google Analytics plugin was not active. I could not determine…
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Select what you typed rather than the completion in ido-mode
Sometimes you don’t want the completion that ido is offering me in Emacs, for instance when trying to create a temporary buffer C-x C-b sometempbuffername. C-j will to get ido to accept what you typed rather than the completion.
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Apache Virtual Host configuration for a Networked WordPress Installation
Direct any URL request that Apache receives to the WordPress installation. You need to do it if you are setting up a WordPress Network multi-site installation that has sites with their own unique domain names. e.g. site1.org, site2.com, someothersite.co.uk etc.…
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Migrating single site WordPress installations to a multisite network
I have seen this question about migrating to a networked multisite WordPress install come up more than once so I thought I’d write down my experience. I used to host about 10 individual WordPress installations. Managing them and keeping them all…
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Ordered list with letters in Twenty Twelve
UPDATE: It turns out I was wrong. type= is deprecated. The correct way to do this is style=”list-style-type:lower-alpha”. I updated my post to reflect that. It appears there is a bug in Twenty Twelve as of this writing where specifying…
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A word on WordPress security
First of all, I am not an expert on security. So please check this info for yourself, and don’t be shy to suggest improvements either. In order to keep your WordPress site secure, one of the things you can do…
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