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Holy Poop!
My post about making a floppy disk pen holder just made lifehacker! Sweet!
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
I’ve been sitting on this post for a solid two months. I left it out of my baffle-clearing the other day because these thoughts are something I want to keep in text rather than being lost to the ether of ideas.
I am not a teacher, nor a parent of children attempting to learn math in [...]
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. Edit Apache2’s dav_fs.conf file:
cd /etc/apache2/mods-available
sudo vi dav_fs.conf
DAVLockDB /var/lock/apache2/DAVLock
<Directory “/var/www/webdav”>
DAV On
DAVMinTimeout 600
DAVDepthInfinity On
AllowOverride AuthConfig
AuthName “DAV Restricted”
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htaccess
Require valid-user
</Directory>
3. Create symlinks to [...]
Spread Firefox - Download Day 2008
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 wish to augment said work with tunes whilst also not killing my machine. iTunes isn’t [...]
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 sitting in my drafts folder that I’ll likely never get to finishing / cleaning / etc.:
Email [...]
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 still a good reference for me.] I read one the other day that made me [...]
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 typing out a ridiculous CD statement. Since then, however, I’ve found myself using Cygwin a [...]
The Dark Side
Heh.
Command Line Upgrade to 8.04 Hardy Heron
Ubuntu 8.04 is the second LTS release of the incredibly popular Linux distro. Inspired, I did a fresh install of my desktop at work and found the process smooth and about as simple as an XP install, (though admittedly about 10 minutes faster!), and am quite happy with the results.
Then, I thought it might be [...]
