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flexSURVEY

Marianne — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:15:22 +0000

I came across flexSURVEY, which looks similar in idea to my Template 2.0 for web experiments, except flexSURVEY uses PHP (Template 2.0 is pure JavaScript up to the point of data submission at the end).

I haven’t tried it, but it looks like it could be a nice way to do some speedy PHP-based questionnaires.

How to change the timeout and default in the boot menu on a Windows/ Linux dual boot

Marianne — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:03:10 +0000

The file you need to edit is /boot/grub/menu.lst and it contains lots of helpful comments. The two lines you’ll most likely need are:

timeout     10

which gives the timeout in seconds, and

default     0

which defines the default boot option, as the order of the item in the menu list, starting at 0. You can of course see the menu list when you boot, but it is also contained further down in the “menu.lst” file. Linux always keeps a few old kernels around to boot into when it updates the kernel, so your Windows entry will usually be the last in the list. If it is, for example, the fifth entry, you need to replace 0 with 4 (because we start counting at 0).

LaTeX: using apacite and hyperref in the same document

Marianne — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:25:33 +0000

The latest (4.0) version of apacite no longer conflicts with the
package hyperref, but you must load hyperref before
apacite.

That is, the preamble of your document should look something like this:

\documentclass{article}
... other packages etc ...
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{apacite}
\begin{document}
...

At least, that is the only way it worked for me. When I had apacite
loaded first, LaTeX would hang on the second run, with an error
message along these lines:

! Undefined control sequence.
\hyper@@link ->\let \Hy@reserved@a
...