Today, I have been fighting playing the html code in templates of Wordpress and the CSS of the site. I wanted to display the posts of the Cobra blog a bit more visible than an RSS feed, but not (like it was) importing every entry into this blog, so I came up with a block on the homepage which is fairly visible so it …

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After quite a long period of using ecto, I have switched to using Marsedit. Ecto got sold beginning last year by Adriaan to Illuminix. There has been no update of ecto since and I'm seeing no signs of improvement either. Does this mean ecto as a product is bad? No. I still love the idea and implementation of it. It is …

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While looking for a solution to a LaTeX path search problem i ran into this: <div class="attribution"> <blockquote cite="http://hans.fugal.net/blog/2009/03/12/microwave-duty-cycle#comments"> <p>As you may know, when you change the power setting on most microwaves, it doesn’t change the power output of the magnetron. …

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As of last thursday, I've started to migrate everything in our network to use GSSAPI or Kerberos authentication. The amount of passwords and accounts grew over our heads and the inevitable "I'll use the same everywhere" started to be apparent. The actual preparation for this already started more than a year ago. We …

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Finally gotten around to integrating http://cobra.mrblog.nl and this site to the wordpress installation. This site already ran under wordpress—µ for while, but I wanted to wait for the integration part until most of the 2.7 features appeared in the subversion repository. Creating this site (toplevel mrblog.nl) in the …

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