Cross-platform Notes

• Latex / Lyx preamble for document metadata and styling – How to use the Latex / Lyx preamble for document metadata and styling.
• Create charts / graphs in OpenOffice oocalc – How to create charts / graphs in OpenOffice oocalc
• oowriter variables – How to create variables in oowriter
• PHP – PHP notes
• How to print landscape in Open Office oocalc – How to print landscape in Open Office oocalc
• Latex / Lyx footers – How to get footers in your Latext / Lyx documents
• CUPS client-error-document-format-not-supported – A potential solution to the CUPS 'client-error-document-format-not-supported' error received when attempting to print from Windows.
• Prevent password prompt when starting Apache's SSL – How to prevent OpenSSL asking for a password when it starts.
• Ruby on Rails – Notes on Ruby on Rails.
• How to save a copy of a file cached by Firefox – How to find information about files in the Firefox cache and save a copy.
• Generate Javadoc – How to generate Javadoc and avoid a couple of oddities.
• Firefox find as you type problem – How to turn off the 'find as you type' feature of firefox, so that you can hit a key without firefox searching the page.
• Creating a bibliography in LyX using BibTeX – Creating a bibliography in LyX using BibTeX
• Java Collections – Notes on the Java 2 platform's Collections framework.
• How to clean a trackball – How to clean a trackball mouse so that it moves freely without stiffness.
• Eclipse – Notes on Eclipse, the development environment, and related plugins.
• MODx – MODx Content Management System
• Copy a VMware Server virtual machine – How to copy (or backup) a VMware Server virtual machine (VM).
• RSI - Repetitive Strain Injury – Some tips on how to overcome RSI.
• Tomcat – Notes on Tomcat, the Java server.
• Regular Expressions – Notes on regular expressions.
• Ant – Note on Ant, the popular build tool.
• A description of i386 i486 i586 i686 – A description of i386 i486 i586 i686
• Jar – Notes on Jar, the Java archive program.
• High-speed Brute-force Password Cracker for MySQL 3 – This C program can crack passwords that have been hashed using the old MySQL 3 password hashing function. I tried it and it works, fast.
• Prevent Apache listing directory contents – How to prevent Apache web server listing the contents of a directory, using a .htaccess file.
• CSS width on inline vs block level elements – Example illustrating that you can only set the width of block-level elements using CSS.
• Permanently remove Mozilla Firebird extension – How to manually uninstall a firefox extension, before the uninstall feature is introduced into the product (bug 170006).
• MyISAM to InnoDB – How to convert MySQL tables from MyISAM to InnoDB for transaction support.
• MySQL – MySQL notes.
• Problems with hyphens in MySQL. – How to deal with problems you'll no doubt receive if you created a database that contains a hyphen in its name.
• Determine which storage type is used by a MySQL table – How to determine which storage type (e.g. MyISAM, InnoDB) is being used by a MySQL table.
• Problem dropping MySQL user – What to do if you can not drop a MySQL user - revoke all privileges and try again.