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LaTeX – Writing Letters
A good simple howto on writing letters and envelopes using LaTeX. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Letters
Create a CGI directory which allows Directory Listing
I wanted to create a cgi-bin directory which would allow me to execute the files and also to view a directory index of them. This is the default setup for the system cgi-bin directory but it wouldn't allow me to do what I wanted. ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/...
Performing Image Tiling Operations ImageMagick
I just had the need to take a GIMP XCF file and create several different types of output images from it: PNG File JPEG File Resize to thumbnail in JPEG format 2x2 Tiled PNG with black and white borders Using the Imagemagick and xcftools you can do it all via the...
Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension “.vbs”.
Just installed Bluefish for Windows and let it take control of alot of the files that you might want to edit including .VBS files (Visual Basic Script). After which I got the following error: C:\Users\myusername\Desktop>cscript DownloadAndConvert.vbs Microsoft (R)...
Cygwin X – failed to activate core devices
Recently updated my Cygwin install on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Workstation. Tried to run startxdmcp.bat and got a Cygwin X error - failed to activate core devices Looking in /var/log/XWin.0.log showed nothing obvious as to why the X server failed to start. Ran Cygwin...
Javascript Best Practices
I don't do a lot of programming, and the languages I use are all interpreted (Perl, VBS, Kix, PHP) and not compiled. So people can easily see the mess I make of code. But I do like to know, at least, how to do things correctly. With regard to Javascript there are many...