I was just looking at this sites XML sitemap in my browser and got to wondering how it is displayed in such a nicely human readable format. Looking at the source of the sitemap.xml shows that it references an XSL style sheet....
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A Good Kohana Tutorial
Check this out very easy to understand Beginners Kohana Tutorial. http://www.dealtaker.com/blog/2009/11/20/kohana-php-3-0-ko3-tutorial-part-1/ There are many other parts to it (I'm up to 2 at the moment).
Adobe Acrobat Reader without using The Adobe Download Manager
The latest version of Acrobat Reader has some pretty good security restrictions so an upgrade is a good idea. However if you work on a network which has 512kbps internet connection you don't want to be running Adobe's Down Load Manager 30 times and sucking the files...
Alcatel OmniPCX Voice Prompts
Just had to upload voice prompts to an Alcatel OmniPCX. The process: Record the message using the "Sound Recorder" on Windows 7 (which saves to WMA format and it's got a high sample rate and it got 2 channels etc) Upload to a Ubuntu 10.10 Linux box and use ffmpeg to...
How Old School Linux are You?
Remember the Registered Linux User Counter: LOL.
WordPress for Android Video Upload
This link http://android.wordpress.org/2010/05/11/wordpress-for-android-version-1-2-geotagging-and-video-upload/ has the secret sauce for uploading 3gp videos to a wordpress blog namely the PJW Mime Config plugin. After installing PJW Mime Config the mime type you...
HP Officejet Pro 8500A A910a on Ubuntu 10.10
Update: The latest version of hplip has the correct entries in the installer/distros.dat file. Go to the aforementioned link and follow the instructions to install on Ubuntu 10.10 and it should work well for you. Just bought a new HP Officejet Pro 8500A A910a as my HP...
The web.archive.org Wayback Machine – A trip down memory lane
If you wonder what content your site had or how it looked months and even years ago http://web.archive.org may be the place to visit. I just had a look at my site http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://toggen.com.au/ and there are pages from as far back as 2003. I...
Accessing Kohana PHP Frameworks Local Userguide
open application/bootstrap.php and make sure your base_url is correct in my case Kohana maps to /~jm/ on my local server Uncomment the 'userguide' => MODPATH.'userguide' module. http://localhost/~jm/index.php/guide
Exporting Dia Diagrams to PNG from the Command Line
A post from the Dia mailing list: I was asked to deliver some diagrams Dia diagrams I did, in PNG format. I just would imagine the nightmare it would have been to do this under "other" diagramming tools. for D in *.dia; do dia -t png -s 1024x $D; done I just checked...
