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Essential WordPress plugins

Here’s a list (below the more tag) of the plugins I’m currently using, for recommendation purposes, and for my own reference in case something goes horribly wrong. I’ll keep this updated as I add/replace them. Not all of them are tested with 2.7.1 yet — in fact several aren’t even tested with 2.7 — but [...]

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Installing Flash on 64-bit Linux (Centos 5)

This took a fair bit of searching, and the answer’s non-obvious… Everybody (?) knows that in theory, if you have 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Linux (x86_64), you can use nspluginwrapper to install 32-bit plugins, like the Flash Player. There’s some instructions here for example. However, those instructions are flawed in two regards.

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Using Gmail on an iPhone with a different email address

Just a quick one today, but hopefully helpful. I’m a big fan of Gmail but I wanted to set it up to use a non-Gmail address as standard, in case Google go bust (unlikely), evil (slightly less unlikely) or mess up their interface in an infuriating way (you never know). This is trivial within the [...]

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Updating Subversion on 64-bit Linux (Centos 5)

I just ran into a problem when trying to upgrade to the latest rpm-packaged version of Subversion on Centos 5 x86_64 — simple solution, but not obvious, so hopefully this will help someone. It goes like this, as root: $ yum update subversion [normal messages snipped] Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psvn.el from install of [...]

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