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Real protection is missing in the Nova Scotia Crown Lands Act
The purpose of the Nova Scotia Crown Lands Act [1], as defined in the Act,
Emacs as an X Clipboard Manager, take 2
I am no longer using any of the solutions from my first Emacs as an X Clipboard Manager post . I am now using an automatic, event-driven solution that is just a simple shell script. This makes the Emacs kill-ring an X clipboard manager without requiring the user to run some yank operation to pull content from the X clipboard. The shell script depends on clipnotify .
EuroBSDCon 2018 Trip Report
The developer summit began on Thursday morning with an unconference feel. After
Upgrading Mastodon on FreeBSD
Update: On 2017-09-15 the FreeBSD Mastodon port, net-im/mastodon, was overhauled with version 1.6.0 to handle installation of Mastodon's node modules and assets. This installation guide has been updated to reflect those changes. --> This post is now out of date. The FreeBSD port/package of Mastodon , net-im/mastodon, is no longer available. To install Mastodon on FreeBSD, refer to the Mastodon…
Running Mastodon on FreeBSD
Update: On 2017-09-15 the FreeBSD Mastodon port, net-im/mastodon, was overhauled with version 1.6.0 to handle installation of Mastodon's node modules and assets. This installation guide has been updated to reflect those changes. --> This post is now out of date. The FreeBSD port/package of Mastodon , net-im/mastodon, is no longer available. To install Mastodon on FreeBSD, refer to the Mastodon…
ZFS Snapshot Management and Replication with zap
ZFS on Root and Full Disk Encryption: FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.0 or One pool to rule them all
Thanks to Allan Jude for steering me through this on IRC and Warren Block for his feedback.
Problems using Microsoft Office 365 at Dalhousie University
Users of some browsers, including Safari, do not see attachments in Office 365's web interface if they are part of valid messages sent from my local mail client. A workaround is to use the drop-down menu on the right side of the screen to display offending messages in a new window. After doing this, missing attachments suddenly appear. Before the switch to Office 365, people in the Math & Stats…
Emacs as an X Clipboard Manager
This post is now deprecated. See Emacs as an X Clipboard Manager post, take 2 .