Category Archives: miscellaneous

Atom Editor: Configure proxy settings

Hi,

if you use the new Atom Editor from Github and want to use the integrated installer for packages and themes behind a proxy server you have to configure the .apmrc file.

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Git: Clone a project over a http proxy

Hi,

like subversion it is also possible to anonymously checkout the latest version of a project over a http proxy server.

Define the proxy server
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Subversion: Check out a project over http proxy server

Hi,

short post today. It is possible to anonymously checkout the latest version of a project over a http and a http proxy server. The only requierment is that the SVN respository must be available via http.

To define a proxy server open /etc/subversion/servers, locate the [global] section and add/edit the following properties:
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Firefox: Enable logging

Hi,

in some cases it may be necessary to log the http traffic of your browser. For example

  • Web developing
  • Or for forensic purposes when you want in detail logged which site you are visiting or from which site you are moved to other sites…

Mozilla Firefox  has the ability to do that. This behaviour is controled by 2 environtment varibales
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Windows Media Player: Exporting or printing a Playlists

Hi,

a friend of mine wants to print the content of some Windows Media Player playlists , but there is no export or print option available.
I wrote him a small C# program which does the job :-). It uses the AxInterop.WMPLib COM Interface.
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