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quizlet export -> csv2sql ->mysql

http://pathboston.com/ajax/csv2sql.php runs the conversion which gets uploaded through phpmyadmin

visualthesaurus vocgrabber to db

11/19 - vocab from vocabgrabber a javascript that you run with an article open in the browser that you want to grab then you select the words you want and save the list.

javascript:var%20_vgurl='http://www.visualthesaurus.com';%20var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.src=_vgurl+'/vocabgrabber/bookmarklet.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);%20void(0);

http://pathboston.com/vocab/grab/vocabgrab.html goes to the visualthesuarus list page and parses the word and usage into arrays, looks up the definition

ebooks

http://nyquil.org/archives/1235-Converting-Amazon-Kindle-For-PC-Books-Now-Possible.html

0) Install Kindle for PC. The latest version of Kindle for PC has broken the scripts, so install this older version, and make sure you disable automatic updates in Kindle for PC’s settings.

1) Install 32-bit python 2.6 for Windows from here (even if your system is 64-bit you need the 32-bit version in order for this to work) : http://www.python.org/download/

2) Download unswindle.pyw and mobidedrm.py via this zip file and unzip it somewhere on your PC

3) Open the unzipped folder and double-click unswindle.pyw

Kindle For PC will now open.

4) Select the book you want to convert.

5) When the book loads, simply exit Kindle For PC

A ‘Save’ dialog will open asking you where you want to save your new decrypted .mobi file. And we’re done.

(As it uses mobidedrm, it still won’t work on Topaz/.tpz files, and the first one I tried happened to be one. Still, most books will work.)

chromium

• http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mac_instructions
• http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/wiki/doku.php?id=multiboot

mediawiki

mailto:mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

bot

mediawiki API

creating a bot

login bot (MrMcKenna bh)

append21.html (gets error badtoken)

Trying to send stuff to api.php to append to a page. Eventually I want to append to the main page of all users. First I'll us a POST form then I'll try multiple POSTS without a form using this snippet

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/54334

bulk import to users

http://pathboston.com/forms/bulk.html then from terminal ssh'd to pathboston.com

cd public_html/hum310/maintenance/

php importUserSubpage.php --title test

will put a page with that title on each user page

Don't transclude especially not sources:biblio

tesseract-ocr

to OCR an image

1. open ~/Applications/ControlCenter.sh, use custom scan toBWtiff
2. get it on screen (big) and 'file/grab' it or take a snapshot of it
3. saveas 'j' nocompress, noalpha, TIFF
4. open a terminal and run ocrjtif (it is in $PATH in /opt/sbin) and then copy and paste the ocr'd text from the terminal window.

quiz authoring environments

http://escholarship.bc.edu/jtla/vol4/6/

http://www.attotron.com/pub/quizmaker.html

http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcexam_description

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~rbowman/JSQuizMaker/makeselftest-questions.html

http://www.extropia.com/

vocab

http://wise.sourceforge.net/ http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down/index.php

xp pro

CD KEY:

V2C47-MK7JD-3R89F-D2KXW-VPK3J

firefox extensions

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -no-remote -P dev &

http://lifehacker.com/software/programming/how-to-build-a-firefox-extension-264490.php

unix

perl

• one liners
• http://www.somacon.com/p127.php

handy code

remove blank lines from file

perl -wnl -e 'print $_ unless /^$/' infile.txt >outfile.txt

sed awk

• SED tutorial
• http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2008/09/programming-patterns-in-sed.html
• http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk_2.html

lib/images/toolbar/list_ul.png

lib/images/toolbar/rule.png

lib/tpl/default/images/interwiki.png

People with shell access to their server can copy the text above and paste it into a file on the system, then run the following commands to check for and remove all those files. Only those that exist are removed.

grep -Ev "^($|#)" /tmp/removeold.txt | xargs -n 1 rm -f

If you are paranoid, replace the "rm -f" with "ls -la" to see what files will be deleted.

To remove directories as well as files you have to use: grep -Ev "^($|#)" /tmp/removeold.txt | xargs -n 1 rm -fd

However, some systems may not support the "rm -d" option for directory removal. In that case, you have to use recursive removal (just be sure to double-check that the file list does not include any paths that will delete too much): grep -Ev "^($|#)" /tmp/removeold.txt | xargs -n 1 rm -fr

regex

• ^[ \t]+ //finds all the space and tabs
• [1-9]\. //finds all the line numbers. (replace with #)
• [A-E]\. //find A. etc (replace with ##)

to clean special characters from a string

$clean = preg_replace("/^[^a-z0-9]?(.*?)[^a-z0-9]?$/i", "$1", $text);

sites

• http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2010/beyond-vi
• http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Regular.html#uh-2
• http://www.regular-expressions.info/php.html

expressions

If you want to get'Aloha World'out

Input:

Hello World

Aloha World

Hey There

RegEx:

  \<div\sclass\=\"somename\"\>(?<Text>.*?)\<\/div\>

Yields:

Aloha World (note: In a single group named Text)

mycode

file:///Users/teacher/code/

/hosted/vocab/quiz/db2egg.php

uses multidimensional arrays

does sorting

• parsemeta.php
• txt2flp.pl
• parsephr.php

msaccess/excel

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=208840

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread546932.html

http://www.blueclaw-db.com/mail_rtf_report_access.htm
http://forums.aspfree.com/microsoft-access-help-18/ms-access-email-report-19094.html
emailing reports

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319317 printing to particular printer

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/user-defined-functions.html

http://www.contextures.com/xlToolbar02.html

http://www.ozgrid.com/VBA/sum-count-cells-by-color.htm

http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/index_vba.php

online tools

http://www.sitebuilt.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=2&edit=1&sesskey=zsCDYluKen http://www.sitebuilt.net/moodle/course/mod.php?id=2&section=0&sesskey=zsCDYluKen&add=quiz

Ari's phone: 011 237 529-4438 calling card:

• 18008872991
• 617

installedMACtools

pic

http://www.rentron.com/Myke3.htm

http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/jk_nand_flip-flop.html

http://www.digital-diy.net/16F%20Examples/LM35DZ.aspx

open source circuits wiki

sparkfun hobby shop

batchpcb.com pcb fabrication

AVR is alternative to PIC

a good tutorial on embedded systems

Google any of these for more info. I have chosen the ATmega168 as the learning IC of choice. Why?

• 20 MIPs (million instructions per second!) is powerful enough to do some really cool projects
• It's cheap! $2.13 currently
• It's got all the goodies under the hood (UART, SPI, I2C, ADC, internal osc, PWM, kitchen sink, etc)
• 16K of program memory is enough for almost any beginner project
• The tools are free! (C compilers for many of the other micros cost a lot of money)
• The programming and debugging tools are low cost ($20 will get you started)

evil mad scientist on AVR programming

isp

host 206.71.150.94

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp

http://www.namecheap.com/myaccount/index.asp mckennatim nanj

https://thenynocportal.com/clientarea.php

text a photo to picasa

text it to your and then forward it without the tmobile gifs then forward it to mckenna.tim.upload@picasaweb.com

making transparent in gimp

1. open image

2. Right click the image and go to LAYERS then ADD ALPHA CHANNEL. You won't notice anything happening, but don't be concerned. It basically adds a transparent layer at the bottom of your image so when we erase the colors.....it's shows the transparent layer. Which of course would show whatever was under it on the screen.

3. Right click on the image again and go to SELECT and then down to BY COLOR. A window that is all black opens up. Don't change any of the settings....just use the defaults for now.

4. Now click on the color in the image you want to be transparent. These colors will now show up outlined.

5. Right click on the image again and go to EDIT and then down to CLEAR. This should now erase the outlined color you just picked from the image and the "transparent gimp checkerbox" should show through. This is the Gimps way of showing you that section is now transparent.

6. Right click on the image and choose SAVE AS and make sure to save as a GIF file if you want the transparency to work on the web.

embedding video

  1. find the file Sanitizer.php in the folder /includes of your mediawiki installation
  2. find the function removeHTMLtags in that file. below that you’ll find a list of whitelisted HTML tags. add the tag embed to the list.
  3. find the function setupAttributeWhitelist in the same file. several lines below you will find HTML-attributes being whitelisted for each HTML tag. so you add a new line (maybe below the line that defines span):
     ‘embed’ => array( ’style’, ‘id’, ‘type’, ’src’, ‘width’, ‘height’ ),

take care to replace the typographic ‘-quotes by straight ones when doing copy&paste. (wordpress converts the quotes on this blog, so you need to convert them back.)

you’re done. now you can copy the HTML-code provided by google or youtube into your wiki textbox and it’ll work. (make sure to make backups and document so you know what you’ve changed. when upgrading you’ll have to repeat the process. no warranties for possibile security leaks resulting from the hack.)

update april 2007: i just tested, this hack also works with mediawiki 1.9.2, just that you need to add embed to $htmlpairs. (note: in case the embed-code you want to use has the format <embed /> you now have to convert it to <embed> </embed> before posting it to your wiki.) i also would recommend to paste the last line of code near br instead of span (the file has got rearranged a bit).

mediawiki memory problem

php.ini is in public_html, it has to be copied into everywhere that uses php left ini_set commented out in localsettins.php .htaccess php_mem ... didn't work

mediawiki upgrade

• cp -r mediawiki-1.16.0/* /home/pathbost/public_html/hum08 - copy new vwrsion right over old
• from /maintainance run: php update.php

then get rid of all the revisions

• SpecialDeleteOldRevisions2 in code/mediawiki/extensions on mac, add this...

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['DeleteOldRevisions'] = true;

require_once( $IP.'/extensions/SpecialDeleteOldRevisions2/SpecialDeleteOldRevisions2.php');

old info

http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/09/05/mediawiki-upgrade-procedure/ easy way:

• goto maintainance directory and run php dumpBackup.php --current> dumfile.xml
• on new site install wiki, put dumpfile.xml on its maintenance dir run php importDump.php dumfile.xml

mediawiki images

Does the user running the apache httpd instance ($ ps ax | grep httpd) have permission to write to images? Dan

mediawiki css

• sitewide changes go in Mediawiki:Monobook.css
• user changes go in User:MrMcKenna/monobook.css

compiling PH w /scripts/easyapache

!! You can change how PHP is configured. As root, simply execute:

   /usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_phpconf --help

for more information.