Category: Computers
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Back in business
The building where I have my server which runs this blog lost power on Wednesday, June 4th, and it finally got restored this morning. Fortunately, I am pretty religious about making backups on an external hard drive, so I had a day-old backup, and was able to upload most stuff to my dreamhost account, and…
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Friendfeed plugin for wordpress
Friendfeed released an API a couple weeks ago. This made me excited, as I figured I could write a wordpress plugin to grab comments people leave on my friendfeed back into the blog. I did not of course find the time to do this right away, as I have already been spending way too much…
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Xorg.conf configuration — solved font size problem
Awhile ago I started having problems with some of my fonts on my computer at work. Interestingly enough, it only seemed to affect a very small minority of programs and situations, namely on startup, when Fedora is going through and telling me all the services it is starting, the fonts were so tiny I could…
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Finally a better LaTeX to html converter
About a year ago I wrote a post about my frustration with the lack of a good LaTeX to html converter. Recently I found one. It is called plasTeX, so named because it is written in python. Finally a converter which works well with most any LaTeX package or macro you write, and produces sane,…
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convert pdf to png with imagemagick
Imagemagick is a swiss-army knife of command-line image conversion, but can be a bit complicated to actually use. I have been making most of my figures with R lately, and printing them to pdfs, which I can include very easily into documents with pdflatex. I like pdf because it is scalable, fairly small file size…