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See the most up-to-date version of the cheat sheet at http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/bibtex-cheat-sheet.txt . A quick copy: * Based on informat...

GRUB4DOS is a flexible, feature-extended version of the GRUB boot manager. This blog post explains how to create a bootable CD which boots G...

GRUB4DOS is a flexible, feature-extended version of the GRUB boot manager. This blog post explains how to create a bootable floppy which boo...

This blog post tells you how to configure dynamic DNS (using dyndns.org) on your router running OpenWRT Kamikaze. The instructions havene be...

If you want to render SVG vector graphics with text (i.e. convert it to a PNG), you might experience some problems: 1. the antialiasing glit...

I was facing a problem with Ghostscript 8.54 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite . When embedding a Type 1 font to the PDF, Ghostscript splitted the font to t...

This blog post demonstrates a TeX macro hack: using \romannumeral to expand many macros in a single expansion. The example goal is to defin...

This post gives a possible solution for typesetting two similar versions of the same LaTeX document differing only in some text fragments. H...

Let's suppose you have one or more local CVS and/or SVN repositories, and you want to merge them (with their change history) to new dire...

Example syntax highlighted Python code: (please ignore) def Hello ( self , x , y ): return x * y + "foo" # bar The s...

The blog post Ruby on Rails Unit Tests explains why it is a bad idea to give the unit tests access to the database, and how to set up your ...

ClassPublic.Java is a Java .class file converter which makes a Java class public and non-final, its fields public and its methods public and...

jdisasm.py is a Java class file disassembler implemented as a Python script. jdisasm.py displays a java .class file in a human readable form...

This post gives step-by-step instructions on deploying a Ruby on Rails application on a Linux-based server using Phusion Passenger and Ruby ...

There is a bug which prevents correct routing with Phusion Passenger 2.2.2 and Rails 2.3.2 (>= 2.2.2) and RailsBaseUri . For example, if ...

Recently I modified the Windows XP registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP from 437 to 65001 ,...

If you have a Philips laptop and you want to boot Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid on it, the system might hang indefinitely while booting (not rea...

This post describes how to set up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf on Linux if you have a laptop with an NVIDIA video card, and you want to attach a...

Let's suppose you have a program which forks subprocesses, and each subprocess writes log messages to the stderr they share. Since proce...

Create the TeX source file dump.tex like this: \documentclass{article} \pdfpagewidth2cm \pdfpageheight1cm \hoffset-2.3cm \voffset-2.3cm \be...

This tutorial describes how to install Ruby gems to your home directory. The gems you install there will not be visible to other user, and t...

We were using the Flash applet on Livescribe's web site in Firefox running on Ubuntu Hardy. We were using Flash 9.0 r124, and Firefox 3....

The naïve way of defining a C macro which tests whether a character is a digit (assuming an ASCII-based character set) is #define ISDIGIT(c)...

This blog post is tutorial which describes how to select a default sound card and run multiple playbacks simultaneously, using ALSA on Linux...

Download pytz from http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ . You can try out the code snippet below without installing pytz. Just create your Python sc...