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Non-Running CouchDB Testsuite

By simon | Published: July 23, 2010
Just updated my CouchDB install guide as I discovered a problem with the install. Mostly my own fault for not checking the testsuite immediately after I installed but when I came to do that today, after discovering that none of my views worked, and even a temporary view was causing the CPU load on the [...]
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First Steps With Tor

By simon | Published: November 15, 2009
I finally got around to getting Tor working on one of my workstations. The process is quite simple to set up to enable anonymous browsing. My workstation is running Ubuntu so I firstly had to install the Debian/Ubuntu APT repository (NB. More detailed instructions for steps 1-3 are available from the Tor Project Debian/Ubuntu Installation Instructions [...]
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Searching a file hierarchy for strings

By simon | Published: March 30, 2009
A colleague asked today how to search a set of directories for files containing a particular string and this is what I came up with: find . | xargs grep gnu where gnu was my search term. The find command with the dot alias as input recursively descends the file hierarchy from the present working directory. The [...]
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Converting Adium Chatlogs to HTML

By simon | Published: March 29, 2009
Weaning myself away from various applications on OS X I ran into a problem of getting my IM logs out of Adium and into something more useable. For some reason the Adium developers have been very resistant to the idea of making it easy to migrate away from Adium. There is no easy way to [...]
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A Craftsman’s Tools…

By simon | Published: March 27, 2009
So there has been talk of standardising the ways that materials are made available to students. Dundee University has a web based system called MyDundee that is supposed to be the standard virtual learning environment for the university. I haven’t gotten around to using this yet. I have logged in several times but I find [...]
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