Having trouble reconciling your multiple e-mail personalities? Mutt’s reply-hook and send2-hook are your friends for most cases. For switching on the fly, I use Trevor Parson’s method of defining macros in the .muttrc.
WordPress, the software I use to write this blog, removes backslashes from posts, which is more than annoying for code examples. For me, this solution seems to work: Turn off the visual editor for all users. Go to Users → Edit user → Your Profile, and untick “Use the visual editor when writing”. When writing […]
Replacing whitespace, lifted directly from the handy collection of sed one-liners at Sourceforge: Delete all leading whitespace from line (tabs and spaces): sed ‘s/^[ \t]*//’ Delete whitespace at end of line: sed ‘s/[ \t]*$//’ Delete leading and trailing whitespace: sed ‘s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//’
I’ve just set up an acount with www.citeulike.org to keep track of papers. Speaking from my first impressions, here are some advantages and disadvantages: Advantages: Clear and intuitive layout Can import and export BibTeX references. Can export EndNote and RSS. Lets you manually edit BibTeX citation keys (unlike Connotea). Lets you upload a personal .pdf […]
Google Earth is finally available for Linux — nice. Here’s how to install: wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin You’ll see the download progress. When it’s finished, make it executable and run it: chmod 744 GoogleEarthLinux.bin ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin This asks you to agree to the License Agreement, then to confirm the installation directory. I changed this to /home/mpromber/bin/, and then […]