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Uninstalling subversion (or any package you’ve compiled manually)

Posted by michael on September 22nd, 2008 under Hacks
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I compiled subversion 1.4.4 and its dependencies (apr, neon) from source when I first got my Macbook, before I had installed MacPorts. Recently I wanted to upgrade to subversion 1.5, and also remove any trace of my previous compile, so I went to my src folder where I had subversion untarred and tried:
~/Documents/src/subversion-1.4.4$ make uninstall
make: [...]

10 Ways to get on to Digg’s frontpage

Posted by michael on April 3rd, 2007 under General, Hacks
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Digg is the new Slashdot, and whilst getting digged might not bring your site down like a true slashdotting, it is far cooler and carries more interweb credibility. So here are the top ten ways to get your site onto the frontpage of Digg:

Buy your diggs
The easiest way: create a fake website/blog and fill it [...]

Internet Explorer 7 on Linux

Posted by michael on January 7th, 2007 under General, Hacks
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Updates

Sérgio from IEs4Linux wrote to say that the latest beta has fixed the black-box image problem, and also has no WGA requirements - so I think it’s best that everyone moves over to using his installer, as mine was a once-off and probably won’t be maintained! Thanks for the interest shown by everyone!
You can find [...]

Internet Explorer 7 and !important

Posted by michael on December 18th, 2006 under Hacks, Internet Explorer
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Internet Explorer versions 6 and below didn’t not parse the !important css modifier correctly - this allowed you to specify styles for browsers like Firefox and such, using the following syntax:
identifier {
  background: #000 !important; /* Firefox */
  background: #FF0000; /* IE */
}
The element’s background will be set to red because the red declaration is after the [...]