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Blog: Hacks

This is a collection of tricks, scripts, one-liners, patches, hacks of all sort & anything related to computers and computing. Try at your own risks!

Stripping extension from files

The following command allows a variety of useful operations on files based on stripping their extension:

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Commenting on blog posts

I hadn't really realized that the possibility for readers to comment on our blog was in fact disabled. Now, this should be remedied. Please say hello!

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Mediawiki Extension News

I have installed Duesentrieb's Mediawiki Extension:News to keep an up-to-date record of what is new on our website.

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Rescuing files: the last of them

A friend encountered a silly bug which wiped an entire folder of data (which bug?).

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Remove portrait images

This little script removes images which appear to be in the portrait format (tweak it for your own needs).

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Installing xv on ubuntu

The following (originally from someone Kurt [1]) works like a charm:

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We have mouse rollover!

One of our most cherished goodies in our original website was the mouse rollover, or tooltip. Something like that (roll over!)...

We had to surrender this option when we turned to MediaWiki, since there was no good support for it and, until a few minutes ago, nothing close enough to what we wanted.

Now the situation has changed.

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Removing recursively special and accented characters in filenames

Don't use non-ASCII characters in filenames.

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LogGrid

I put here a Mathematica module to generate a logarithmic grid of points between given lower and upper bounds.

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Restoring corrupted Mathematica notebook

When you have a corrupted Mathematica notebook, which happens more often than not, you can use the wonderful Corruption.m package from Lou D'Andria.

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