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Activity for DavidCary
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| Comment | Post #294557 |
I agree that *in general* SQL dumps often *are* large binary files, and standard git isn't great for large binary files. However, WordPress database dumps are mostly plain text. And I hear git is great for text files -- it works just as well with a large plain-text fictional novel as it does with... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294557 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What are best practices for keeping my blog in version control repository (Wordpress in a git repo)? What are best practices for keeping my blog in version control? In particular, I hear that many people use `git` to version control a Wordpress blog. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) That way if something gets deleted or mangled on the public blog (usually the authorized user, me, ma... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290503 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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How do I set UTF8 in a Vim modeline? Occasionally someone occasionally modifies one of the files I'm responsible for with an archaic tool that decides to convert the updated file to UTF-16 (probably lossless) or an even more archaic tool that converts the file to Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) (probably lossy). Is there a Vim modeline I ca... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #290061 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page? How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page? Some people have showed me diagrams online where the lines are animated dotted lines / animated dashed lines, where each dash moves towards the arrow-point end of the line. (I hear this kind of animated dotted lin... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289602 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Determine encoding of text Quick fix I agree with Canina that you need to do two translations to fix this problem. Fortunately, it appears that you can recover the original text without loss. Try this: ```bash first convert from UTF-8 to WINDOWS-1252 iconv -f UTF-8 -t WINDOWS-1252 junk.txt next re-interpret th... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285253 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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How can I ssh to a remote server from my Chromebook? How can I ssh to a remote server from my Chromebook? A lot of the work I do involves ssh'ing to a remote web server, running software on that remote command shell, and testing things using a web browser. A lightweight Chromebook seems like it would support that. A lot of old documentat... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285048 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Distinguish like I'm 5 years old — ArtBox, BleedBox, CropBox, MediaBox, TrimBox Historically, books and magazines were printed on large pieces of paper, which were then cut into smaller pieces of paper. Even today large reels of paper run through rotary printing presses where the partial image printed in one color by roller needs to be lined up with the partial image pri... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |