Archive for July, 2008

Associate mailto links with GMail!

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Sick of copying and pasting email addresses from a webpage into your GMail account manually when you want to send an email?  Use Firefox 3?  Read on…

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July 30th, 2008 at 10:01 am  

Posted in Discoveries, Mail

Oh GoDaddy, how I love to hate thee…

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I was using DomainsAtCost.ca for all my domain registrations, going back years…  recently however I wanted to put a few registrations on Paypal rather than Credit Card.  I like how I pay for it with real money immediately rather than later… which I often get out of hand with.

So I signed up at GoDaddy.

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July 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm  

Posted in DNS, Personal

One of my biggest pet peeves…

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…is opening up some source code and seeing ^M’s at the end of every line. It’s an issue caused by the different characters operating systems use when you hit the enter key. Read on for a bit more detail about this, and a quick fix for it in vi!

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July 15th, 2008 at 9:10 am  

Posted in Coding, Personal

Looping in CSH

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The syntax for looping in csh slightly differs from that of sh, bash, or other more common shells… I had to look it up just now so I thought I’d record it for future reference.

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July 15th, 2008 at 7:13 am  

Posted in Coding, Servers

How to Update Post Author in Wordpress

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By default when you install wordpress, the first user created is ‘admin’. I tend to take it no further, and just use this account for all my posting and editing tasks. However, seeing ‘posted by admin’ everywhere doesn’t give things a very personal touch… so I wanted to change my existing posts to come from a new user.

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July 11th, 2008 at 7:30 am  

Posted in Coding