Here is a handy little shortcut I recently figured out (it took me long enough, didn’t it!).
You can mount an ISO image as a directory in linux. Very nice for when you are remote and want to have a CD on that system.
mount -t iso9660 -o loop imagename.iso /mnt/isoimage
Categories: Linux, System Administration
Tagged: Linux
Don’t you hate it when your browser locks up because you unknowlingly clicked on a PDF File? Let’s face it – Adobe’s PDF Format rocks but the reader takes way to long to load and also locks your PC up.
Foxit Software just released Foxit PDF Reader 2.0. If you haven’t tried it already, [...]
Categories: Programs, System Administration, Windows
Tagged: adobe, Foxit Software
I recently had a problem where I was opening a browser window from an e-mail client. After taking a survey, I wanted a button to close this same window. In IE, it was fine to simply use window.close(); to close the window. However, Firefox, the evil genius that it is, will not let you do [...]
Categories: Code Samples, JavaScript
Tagged: firefox, JavaScript
Don’t you hate it when you try to visit a digg story and the site has been dugg? Use the greasemonkey firefox plugin and this duggmirror greasemoney script to add three links to each digg entry – the duggmirror archive, Coral NYU Mirror, and the Google Cache of the page, all with a nice graphical [...]
Categories: JavaScript, Linux, System Administration, Windows
I am using the Visual.Syntax code highlighting plugin by Matthew Delmarter. There were some code highlighter plugins out there, but they were all pretty complicated and the output was fancier – a little too fancy. I wanted something simple to copy/paste from and Visual.Syntax won the day for me. iG:Syntax Hiliter is a close second [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Site Updates
Tagged: Matthew Delmarter
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