Swobodin v Brně

Porn, viagra, casino, and some words I don’t understand… I got more than 70 within a week! Fortunately, the WordPress keywords filter removed most of them, but it’s not enough, since the database size strangely increased. I am using a new method: denying spam robots with .htaccess file.
According to the WordPress site, you should […]

How did not I pay attention to that during all this time? An only-1-MB GTK-based offline dictionary!

StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk2 and data is availbale from the Website. I started to find out about it downloading both Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and the Russian Словарь Даля. Those data files […]

Firefox Slogan: Always use protection.
Firefox is the free web browser that offers greater privacy and prevents pop-ups, spyware and viruses.

To insert a link to a remote URL with LaTeX, import hyperref library in the document header
\usepackage{hyperref}
And set your link
\href{http://url}{text link)
Example:
\href{http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org}{Swobodin’s Blog}
Export to PDF, and pray:
pdflatex YourDoc.tex

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I have released a quick Perl script to parse an Apache log file and insert data into a SQLite database.
Click here to download the script.

Sometimes, you can find a very interesting web page, but the display is bad, especially for shining and incompatible colors, or very small fonts, …
EditCSS can fix this, but only for you: after installing the Firefox extension, right click anywhere in the page, and tick “Edit CSS” option; it will open a side bar with […]

I found out another OS called cdfs. The installation is quite simple: download it from http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/, then patch the kernel source. It is also possible to just type make at cdfs directory; insert the module and, depmod and modprobe it. You have a new filesystem!
Once done, update /etc/fstab adding the following line for example:
/dev/hdc   /media/CDFS   cdfs    […]

I found out some interesting tricks using gnuplot:
first, run the interactive program:
$gnuplot
type, in the shell, the following command
gnuplot> splot sin(x)+cos(y) with lines palette linewidth 4
Cool 3d output! You can even play with it making rotations and scales.
If you want to export it to a vector graphic and then edit it with Inkscape, type:
gnuplot> set […]

Kaiser (homo mæthimaticus), also a LaTeX guru, informed me once that there’s a LaTeX library called ArabTeX (عربتاخ) which consists of the following: you write your Arabic text as you pronounce in Latin characters, and the module converts it to Arabic (yes, simply!); furthermore, if you require it, your text will be accentuated (الشّكل) […]

I’m finding out about Festival, a text-to-speech system.
The purpose is simple, you type a text in English (it can speak Spanish too, I still haven’t tried it) , the program reads the text either in American or British English and it’s possible to export the output to any format; for example:
text2wave asciifile.txt | […]