After 4 years of running a pretty stable linux on my notebook I realized that the time had come that too much software and dependencies have been on my system so I set up a clean system. By doing so I also switched to a tiling window manager called awesome (with which I am pretty …
Tag: Linux
Attending Mozilla Devroom at FOSDEM: Hacking Gecko by Bobby Holley
Since I went to Brussesl to attend the Free Open Source Developer European Meeting and give a talk about graphity I had also some time to attend some interesting talks. Since I will teach a class in summer for students about creating a basic webserver and webbrowser I decided to listen to some talks of …
how to move wordpress directory: Problems with upload_path wp-content/uploads
Recently I was forced to move a wordpress site to a different webserver. By moving to a new server due to different hosting policies I also had to change the physical directory in which the wordpress files were stored. Before it was something like /var/www/wordpress afterwards it became /home/domainname/www/ . So after moving the data …
How to download Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an amazing data set to do all different kinds of research which will go far beyond text mining. The best thing about Wikipedia is that it is licensed under creative common license. So you are allowed to download Wikipedia and use it in any way you want. The articles have almost no spelling …