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Creating WordPress child themes and preventing automatic linebreaks in pre-tags
I wanted to prevent automatic linebreaks in pre-tags in the “Twenty Fourteen” theme. I followed WordPress’ description on how to create child themes. In the /usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes directory, I created the twentyfourteen_local directory. In this directory I created the style.css file. The file was given the contents shown below. In the Dashboard, I clicked on Appearance. […]
Read More → Creating WordPress child themes and preventing automatic linebreaks in pre-tagsReferencing IETF RFCs inline in LaTeX
In LaTeX documents without the need for a separate bibliography, these macros might be handy for referencing and creating clickable URLs pointing to IETF RFCs.
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Happy New Year 2014!
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I wish you all a Merry Xmas!
Read More → Merry Xmas!Detecting clang in C code
If you’re looking for a way to detect when your code is being compiled by clang, try the command clang -dM -E -x c /dev/null In the large list presented, you’ll find these macros the most interesting ones:
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Type this in LibreOffice Math: and you’ll get:
Read More → Functions with cases in LibreOffice MathTrouble upgrading older Subversion on recent FreeBSD? You might be missing devel/scons
I upgraded Subversion 1.8.1 to 1.8.5 on some non-critical FreeBSD servers the other day. Normally I would run this command: portupgrade -fprv devel/subversion I noticed www/serf also needed updating, so this time I ran a command like: portupgrade -fprv www/serf
Read More → Trouble upgrading older Subversion on recent FreeBSD? You might be missing devel/sconsObserving leap seconds
I came across a blog post by Emil Mikulic on the leap second introduced by the IERS on 1 July 2012. Inspired by Emil Mikulic’s blog post, I created the following short programme.
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A student’s Toshiba Satellite laptop equipped with Windows 8 and Secure Boot refused to shut down by simply pressing the power button. The solution is to hold down the Fn button prior to holding down the power button. Keep both buttons depressed until you hear the laptop actually shutting down. Boy, do I love Secure […]
Read More → Toshiba Satellite laptop, Windows 8, and Secure Boot – what a combination!Having trouble starting named from dns/bind99 automatically? Here’s how I solved it!
I tried to convince named from dns/bind99, as of r333563, to start automatically at (re)boot on stable/10 and head. My /etc/rc.conf file contains lines like these: named_enable=”YES” named_program=”/usr/local/sbin/named” named_wait=”YES” named_wait_host=”localhost” named_auto_forward=”YES” named_auto_forward_only=”YES” Eventually, I resolved the matter using the following patch: The tabs are missing, so you better apply this patch by hand. It’s not […]
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