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WordPress does LaTeX

Published on 20110329 in Stuff and Tech. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

While I was setting up another wordpress site today, I found out to my great surprise that WordPress can actually do \LaTeX markup by simply installing the jetpack plugin.

For those that don’t know, \LaTeX is a computer typesetting system that really shines for difficult typesetting problems like mathematical formulas and scientific text. For more detail see What are \TeX \LaTeX and friends
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All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.

Published on 20080806 in Stuff and Tech. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

I get lots of e-mail, about 300 messages a day (excluding spam). Ok admittedly I don’t really have to deal with all of it immediately but if you let it go you very soon have thousand of e-mails waiting in you INBOX. more....

Running those legacy apps

Published on 20080723 in Bad Tech. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I’m doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called new and improved software.  more....

How to fight Zombies

Published on 20080409 in Bad Tech and Stuff. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Anyone that runs a mail server very quickly learns how to fight spam if he wants to do his job properly. It is also one of the favourite pastimes of the clueless to think up stupid ways to fight spam. Today I saw a brilliant answer to one of these ideas on the postfix mail list. more....