Category Archives: Technology

Invisible scheduled tasks on Windows XP

Just a note to self: to make a scheduled Windows XP task run invisibly, schedule it to run as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:

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Disabling RSS in WordPress

In some instances, it is desirable to disable generation of RSS feeds by WordPress.  Akuna Matata presents a simple solution to this problem.  Just add the following to your theme’s functions.php: /** * Disable Our Feed Urls */ function disable_our_feeds() … Continue reading

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Defeating the Black Screen of Death

Equipment: a Toshiba Satellite A215-S7437 laptop (AMD Turion 64 X2, 2,048 MB DDR2 SDRAM, 200 GB HDD, DVD SuperMulti optical drive, 802.11b/g wireless network card) running Vista Home Premium. Problem: an atypical Black Screen of Death.  In most cases, the Black Screen of … Continue reading

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Installing fonts in Fedora

Just a note to self…  To install fonts (in this example, the Arial family) on a Fedora system: Log in as root Change to the font storage directory: cd /usr/share/fonts Create a subdirectory to hold the Arial family of fonts: … Continue reading

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.8…

…seems to have been completed without a hitch. A separate source of happiness is that none of the plugins were broken in transition.

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Solar panels get cheaper

From Business Week: Solar Panels Get Cheaper With Congress considering both a cap on carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy requirements for power companies, utilities are trying to figure out how they’ll produce clean energy. One increasingly viable option: solar … Continue reading

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include_HTML gets an update

I just updated include_HTML to version 0.3.  This is basically a bug-fix release; it turned out that the solution I worked out to resolve compatibility issues with WordPress 2.7 was causing problems when trying to access URLs containing special symbols.  … Continue reading

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An ethanol glut?

From Business Week: Lobbying for a Better Blend The ethanol industry is about to hit a wall—the “blend wall.” U.S. biofuel factories now have the capacity to make about 12 billion gallons of ethanol a year, and the U.S. market … Continue reading

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Introducing the Bookworm plugin

If you are familiar with Drupal, you are probably familiar with the concept of a “book”. A Drupal “book” is a collection of Web pages that are automatically tied together with proper hyperlinks, so that there is no need to … Continue reading

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The WordPress Projects page

It’s been a while since I wanted to give my modest WordPress-related efforts a place of their own.  Well, here it is: the WordPress Projects page.

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