I use a lot of strike-through during my day (well, hopefully I do as I get things done!). Here’s a couple of keyboard short-cuts for strike-through on MS Office products: OneNote: Ctrl + – Excel: Ctrl + 5 Word: Ctrl + D (font menu) then Alt + K (tick strike-through) then Enter Not exactly consistent, but useful nonetheless.
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Quick access to Windows start-up folder
Want to find your Windows start-up folder to add a new shortcut? Win+E then clicking through Computer -> C: -> Users -> AppData -> i\forget\where\it\is\these\days buy steroids online with credit card too much of a drag? Try: Win+R then type shell:startup I found a huge list here, most are a bit pointless but cialis online [...]
Keeping your Dropbox secured
I was building a shared work laptop the other day, something that would be primarily used by me on building sites for system commissioning. As part of the install I had automatically installed Dropbox along with other useful utilities and then suddenly had the thought. “I won't be the only person using the laptop. All my stuff is on here in [...]
Multiple project Trac set-up
I’ve already installed Trac and I now want to be able to set-up multiple projects with the minimum of fuss. My requirements are: Not having to mess with the Apache configuration every time I add a new project because I don’t want to have to restart apache Make some simple modifications to the stanadard trac.ini [...]
Vim auto indenting
I used to get annoyed when pasting text into a Vim window as each line would indent one more tab than the last line. To fix it I used to add set noautoindent in /etc/vimrc, however this unsurprisingly turns off auto indenting, which is a useful feature for normal typing. Today I came up with [...]
Subversion over ssh
My background task over the Christmas holidays was to ensure that I had the ability to give read/write access to a subversion repository situated on a machine within our corporate network so that staff or external contractors can access it via the interweb but without me needing to open up additional ports on our firewall. [...]
Installing Trac on Debian etch
The following is a no-frills install guide for getting Trac up and running on a Debian ‘etch’ Linux system. The assumption is that you’ve already got mysql and subversion working and have created a subversion repository (tip: apt-get install mysql-server subversion). The first thing that we buy cialis online need to do is install Python, [...]
MySQL replication
More brain dumping, this time after setting up MySQL on my test server to replicate offsite as the data on there is becoming important. To start with both machines are running fully updated and upgraded Debian Etch and MySQL 5 as a Debian package with identical copies of the MySQL databases in /var/lib/mysql/. On the [...]
Search and replace multiple files with sed
Ok, if you ‘do’ linux then you’ll probably already know this one. I did, kinda, but canadian pharmacy no prescription had to Google to remind myself of the exact chain of commands. So here I am writing it down so it’s easier to find next time. In my case I had a load of apache [...]
Removing DOS linebreaks from your files using Vim
This morning I’m debugging an issue on a script that gets cronned every minute. I’ve a shell open on the server and the file in question open using Vim and I notice each line has a trailing ^M…. Aargh the dreaded DOS linebreak. Dusting off my rusty vim-foo I simply do a search and replace [...]