Posts In Category mac
Snow leopard + wordpress + latex problem
on October 1, 2009 by lieven in iMath, mac, Comments (0)
Ever since I’ve upgraded to Snow Leopard I’ve been having problems with the webserver.
At first there were the ‘obvious’ problems : mysql-connection lost and php-error message. These were swiftly dealt with using the excellent Snow Leopard, Apache, PHP, MySQL and Wordpress! advice from ‘tady’.
Right now, access to this blog is extremely slow (and often [...]
bib2html
on April 16, 2008 by lieven in iMath, mac, Comments (1)
One computer and one system-upgrade ago, I tried to convince people to set up their own MOPP (My Online Publications Page).
The essence of such pages is that they need an update, once in a while… I’m a bit embarrassed to admit it, but, I failed to re-install the package, following my own instructions.
Fortunately, there are [...]
iTouch as network sniffer
on February 22, 2008 by lieven in mac, Comments (2)
In the iTouch warwalking post I was considering trying to gain access to closed networks for innocent purposes such as checking mail, rather than stealing secret passwords from people allowing you free access to their wireless network, but still, I should have thought of the following possibility
Here’s a walk-through :
type the following command into your [...]
block google analytics cookies
on January 31, 2008 by lieven in general, mac, Comments (2)
When more than 200.000 websites are using google analytics, a one-man action proposed last time to de-activate GA on neverendingbooks is pretty useless. Perhaps a better alternative is :
When you use google analytics on your site, announce this and add a link to CustomizeGoogle BLOCK GOOGLE ANALYTICS COOKIES. Your visitors can then decide whether or [...]
yahoo pipes on iTouch
on January 24, 2008 by lieven in iMath, mac, Comments (5)
The next thing on my tech-to-do-list : learn all about Yahoo Pipes :
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs. Here are a few popular ways the service can be [...]
quick iTouch links
on January 16, 2008 by lieven in geometry, mac, Comments (0)
MacBookAir? Is this really the best Apple could come up with? A laptop you can slide under the door or put in an envelop? Yeez… Probably the hot-air-book is about as thick as an iTouch. The first thing I did was to buy a leather case to protect the vulnerable thing, making it as thick [...]
iTouch warwalking
on January 10, 2008 by lieven in mac, Comments (0)
Four years ago I had a brief fling with wardriving. It went only as far as getting Ethereal to crack the security of our house-network. I simply couldn’t picture myself walking around the neighborhood with my laptop under my arm… However, jogging around with an iPod will attract far less attention.
Starting an iTouch [...]
overloaded iTouch
on January 5, 2008 by lieven in iMath, mac, Comments (4)
A jailbroken iTouch can do many wonderful tricks : by sarting up an AFDd server one can use it in Disk mode, exactly as an iPodClassic, one can use it as a WebServer by installing Apache and PHP and run a Wiki, one can install OpenSSH and secure shell to the rest of the [...]
top iTouch hacks
on December 30, 2007 by lieven in iMath, mac, Comments (2)
So, you did jailbreak your iTouch and did install some fun or useful stuff via the Install.app … but then, suddenly, the next program on your wish-list fails to install ??!! I know you hate to do drastic things to your iTouch, but sooner or later you’ll have to do it, so why not NOW?
Move [...]
mathML versus LaTeXRender
on March 21, 2007 by lieven in iMath, mac, rants, Comments (0)
No math today. If you’re interested in the latest on noncommutative geometry, head over to the NCG-blog where Alain Connes has a post on Time. Still, Alain’s post is a good illustration of what Ill be rambling about : TeX and how to use it in a blog.
If you’re running a math-blog, sooner or later you want to say [...]
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