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Expanding the size of the Wordpress editor

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General : Tuesday, 29 July 2008 17:48

I have no idea if there's a significant reason for the Wordpress editor being limited to 980px wide, but it's easy to fix.  Just edit /wp-admin/css/global.css, find the section for ".wrap, .updated, .error" and remove the line that says "max-width: 980px;"

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 October 2008 00:24
 

Installing Subversion 1.5 on Ubuntu 8.04

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Ubuntu : Tuesday, 29 July 2008 17:56

ubuntuFor various reasons I won't go into, you can't get Subversion 1.5 to build on Ubuntu 8.04.  You can however install it from this alternative repository...

First, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/clazzes.org/ubuntu hardy main

Then update the repo and install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install subversion

Now go back into the sources.list and remove (or comment out) that repository:

# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/clazzes.org/ubuntu hardy main

All done!

Thanks to Seffyroff for ferreting out this info, gleaned from various locations.  This reportedly works with both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Ubuntu.

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 October 2008 01:12
 

Brushes!

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General : Thursday, 22 November 2007 22:52

dwarfIt's pretty much impossible to over-state the importance of a decent paint-brush when working with miniatures.

sableThe weapon of choice for acrylic paints is a brush using natural hairs from the sable, a small mammal found in Russia, Mongolia and Japan, however the ones I now use are actually made from Kolinsky Sable which, just to confuse things, isn't actually made from sable hairs but from the hairs of the kolinsky - a small weasel.

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 October 2008 01:07
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Cutting Circles in Polystyrene

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Tools : Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:25

dwarfAs I mentioned in my last post about cutting up HDPE I've started working with high-density polyethylene (HDPE). One of the challenges I faced was how to cut a neat circle, as a knife was just not creating a circular-enough shape, and the hot-wire cutter I just could not control enough to produce an even circle.

I had recently bought a beam compass (with cutting blades as well as pencil-leads) and this is the ideal tool for cutting circles in stuff. This consists of an adjustable pin and a fixed blade, so it is possible to cut circles of any size. The problem is, and this may be visible in the image below, is that the HDPE is relatively soft, so the act of trying to cut through it tends to make the centre-hole huge and messy, which obviously affects the cut (and leaves a whacking great hole in the middle of your item).

beamcompass

My solution to this was the PointProtector™. Read on for details...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 October 2008 01:18
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Fixing a moved VM's NIC back to eth0 in Ubuntu

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Virtualisation : Thursday, 17 July 2008 18:32

ubuntuIf you move or copy a VM, you'll be asked if you want to Create or Keep the identifyer for it.  If you create a new one, one of the actions VMWare does is to change the MAC address of the NIC.  Since some of the networking config is tied to this information, you have to perform some steps in Ubuntu to make it think your main NIC is eth0 again...


The solution is simple: delete the udev rules for the NIC and reboot:

sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

sudo reboot

 

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:03
 
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