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WordPress does LaTeX

Grumpy Old Techie — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:19:29 +0000

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

For those that don’t know, is a computer typesetting system that really shines for difficult typesetting problems like mathematical formulas and scientific text. For more detail see What are and friends

It is now possible to do nicely formated formulas directly in WordPress, like:

The plugin simply takes the markup and generates a graphic from it and puts it into the post. Anyone that uses will be able to do this without the help of a WordPress plugin, but for people like me that use for all their documents (even invoices) it is kind off cool to be able to put the markup straight into the wordpress editor.

You can use for any type of document and unlike Microsoft Word it actually manages to number pages correctly and generate correct tables of content and indexes. If you want to try it out go to http://www.tug.org/begin.html

Tags: computer, computer typesetting, latex, mathematical formulas, microsoft, microsoft word, TeX, typesetting system

All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.

Grumpy Old Techie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:44:30 +0000

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....

Tags: e-mail, INBOX, Mac, mac mail, mail, mail client, mail clients, mail list, microsoft, Mutt, pleasure, postfix, pretty pictures, sourcecode, spam, suck, windows

Running those legacy apps

Grumpy Old Techie — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:48:23 +0000

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....

Tags: Apple, blog, crash, fun, ICT, licence, linux, Mac, mail, microsoft, open source, software, sysadmin, systems, user, vista, war, windows, work

How to fight Zombies

Grumpy Old Techie — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:02:36 +0000

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....

Tags: brute force, clueless, Countermeasures, countries, FUSSP, ICT, idiot, Mac, machine guns, mail, mail list, mail server, microsoft, network, open relays, open source, police, postfix, software, spam problem, Spammers, suck, Tech, ultimate solution, user, war, weapons, windows, work, zombies