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Setting up my Radiant Blog

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I just started setting up my personal Blog after forays into WordPress and Mephisto I have settled on Radiant. Radiant is a very flexible system with lots of development. The folks in #radiantcms are extremely helpful and the entire site is in ruby and uses the rails construct. How did I set up GIT? Which … Read more

Dragon Naturally Speaking on Windows 2008 Server

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Recently, I purchased the upgrade to Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 for Windows and experienced some difficulty installing the software. Officially, the web-site lists the following supported versions: Windows Server 2000 Windows Server 2003 Windows XP SP2 or higher, 32-bit Windows 2000 SP4 or higher Windows Vistaâ„¢ or Windows Vistaâ„¢ SP1, 32-bit 64-bit OS not currently … Read more

Generating PDF files with RTeX

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I love LaTeX and I love ruby/rails. I want to use rtex, it seems perfect for me. But, I am having trouble and am looking for help — once i get this working i’ll make a blog post for the world. First, do i have what it takes? tim@polycarp:~/test_rails$ which pdflatex /usr/bin/pdflatex tim@polycarp:~/test_rails$ which latex … Read more

getting git-svn up and running on ubuntu

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tim@polycarp:~/web_apps$ git svn clone http://svn.fitwit.com Can’t locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core//git-svn line 29. so i realized i needed to install the perl git-svn libraries: sudo apt-get install git-core git-svn did the trick. enjoy.

My first blog post

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Today was a sad day. Sad because a friend left. This friend gave me much and I feel that I gave so little in return. The whole day seemed so surreal. There were many who stood up and said things and I sat there stuffing my face with food. I was aware that I was … Read more

Reset

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/* ————————————————————– reset.css * Resets default browser CSS. Based on work by Eric Meyer: * meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/ Icons are available for purchase at: * http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/arts-and-entertainment/arts-symbols/4575877-satin-icons-set-9.php?id=4575877 ————————————————————– */ html, body, div, span, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, code, del, dfn, em, img, q, dl, dt, dd, ol, … Read more