Monthly Archives: May 2008

Set Up WebDAV for iCal Sharing on ubuntu 8.04

Enabling WebDAV for iCal publishing/sharing is fairly straightforward: 0. Install apache2 (if it’s not already installed): sudo apt-get install apache2 1. Create a WebDAV directory in your DocumentRoot with the proper permissions: mkdir -p /var/www/webdav chmod -R 777 /var/www/webdav 2.

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Spread Firefox – Download Day 2008

Spread Firefox – Download Day 2008

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iTunes Playlist Export

One of my long-time gripes with iTunes is that the only ways to export its playlists are to text and xml which aren’t particularly useful by themselves. I’ve been doing more processor- and memory-intensive work on my laptop lately, and

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Clearing the Baffles (II)

Three months ago, I “cleared the blogging baffles” and actually found it fairly cathartic. Based on that, I set up a task reminder to remind me to do just that every three months on the 20th. Here are the posts

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Prime Time

Every so often I go back through posts on my old blog, which is securely archived for my own random access. [There are some fairly good posts on it about technology that wouldn’t make sense to re-post here, but are

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Cygwin Prompt Here (for tcsh)

In a post I can no longer find, Scott Hanselman blogged about a registry entry to add a “Command Prompt Here” item to Windows’ right-click context menu. This has, many times, saved me almost 30 seconds of opening cmd.exe and

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