Archive for September, 2009
Quick Tip: How to insert a double or triple hypen into a wordpress post (and more)
Posted by Adam in Quick Tips on Wednesday September 30, 2009
When typing out a blog post in wordpress, you may notice that certain combinations of repeating characters are collapsed into a single character, for example:
-- becoming —
--- becoming —
... becoming …
's becoming ’s
(tm) becoming ™
'' becoming ”
`` becoming “
and perhaps most oddly, words such as, 'twere and 't'aint becoming ‘twere and ‘t’aint.
To the untrained eye, there seems to be little difference. To a computer, they are each as far apart from each other as A is from Z.
Deploying a KIWI CD/DVD image created with KIWI to a USB drive
Posted by Adam in Linux, Setting Up on Saturday September 26, 2009
WARNING: Please read before continuing ▼
Difficulty: Moderate
Time: ~30 Minutes
Last Updated: 26th September 2009
Applies to: *NIX
KIWI is a new tool released by the people behind OpenSUSE for creating customised distributions. One of the best features of it is that the images created are portable. However, documentation is scant at this time, and the instructions for deploying an ISO image onto a USB device are buried deep in the manual.
The actual process for copying the file is simple, however, identifying the right drive can be tricky.