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13  08 2008

Logitech QuickCam E2500 on Ubuntu Skype

I recently discovered the wonders of skype, and tried to get my new webcam working with it under linux, and of course this proved to be quite tricky. After much fiddling I eventually got it to work, hopefully these steps will work for you too.

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13  05 2008

jsvi and TiddlyWiki

When adding posts to my TiddlyWiki, I oft found myself craving vi, rather than a simple textarea. There were a few options that involved using a plugin for Firefox such as mozEx, and using an external program to edit textareas. However, I found a nice ‘integrated’ option instead.

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13  05 2008

Integrating LatexRender into TiddlyWiki

This post is adapted from my LatexRenderPluginDoc page on my wiki, so might contain a couple of errors on the copy over. If something doesn’t seem right, refer to that page, and please tell me in a comment below.

This uses LatexRender, my simple TiddlyWiki macro, LatexRenderPlugin, and a custom script I created for the purpose, render.php, which renders LaTeX fed to it as an argument. You’ll need imagemagick enabled on your server.

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05 2008

Laptop hard drive clicking in Hardy

Since I installed Hardy a week or so ago, I noticed the hard drive in my laptop was making a strange clicking noise every 5 seconds or so. At first I thought it must be slowly dying, and I was starting to get a bit worried, but then realised it seemed a bit suspicious that it coincided with Hardy so closely, so I searched around.

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05 2008

Wordpress

So, I installed WordPress. I guess I’m just procrastinating from exam revision, but maybe I will actually manage to update this thing occasionally.