DiscoMoose http://discomoose.org interesting things. Tue, 22 May 2007 20:57:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hacking the translation plugin for nicer URLs http://discomoose.org/2006/05/07/hacking-the-translation-plugin-for-nicer-urls/ http://discomoose.org/2006/05/07/hacking-the-translation-plugin-for-nicer-urls/#comments Sat, 06 May 2006 23:29:54 +0000 Steven http://discomoose.org/2006/05/07/hacking-the-translation-plugin-for-nicer-urls/ When I first installed WordPress on this site, I went to the codex plugin list and went a bit mad over the extreme extensibility on offer, grabbing many plugins, just to try them out. A lot of them I disabled after a short while (not that they weren't good, they weren't anything I was wanting to use). Anyway, one of the plugins which is almost completely useless to me, but which I have left activated is the Simple Thoughts Automatic Translation Plugin, which provides the little translation bar with the flags which you can see on the right of this page. I left it activated simply because it is neat. :)

As I use nice mod_rewritten URLs for all other WordPress powered content on this site, I decided to try and hack the script to allow nice translation URLs:
Old: http://discomoose.org/wp-content/plugins/translator.php?l=de&u=http://discomoose.org/
New: http://discomoose.org/translate/de/http://discomoose.org/
Now, I'm not experienced with mod_rewrite at all, so this is more than likely a poorly implemented hack. But equipped with an excellent mod_rewrite beginner's guide (found via Digg) I set about trying to implement it.

What I came up with is this:
In /wp-content/plugins/translator.php, change the get_translated_url function to this:

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PHP:
  1. // new version for mod_rewriteness
  2. function get_translated_url($language='de', $url) {
  3.     if(!isset($url)) $url = get_bloginfo('url');
  4.     return get_bloginfo('url') . '/translate/' . $language . '/' . $url;
  5. }
  6.  
  7. /* old get_translated_url function commented out for easy restoring:
  8. function get_translated_url($language='de', $url) {
  9.     if(!isset($url)) $url = get_bloginfo('url');
  10.     return get_bloginfo('url') . '/wp-content/plugins/translator.php?l=' . $language . '&u=' . $url;
  11. } */

And add the following to the top of .htaccess:

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CODE:
  1. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  2. RewriteEngine On
  3. RewriteBase /
  4. RewriteRule ^translate/([^\/]+)/(.*)$ /wp-content/plugins/translator.php?l=$1&u=$2 [L]
  5. </IfModule>

Then URLs such as /translate/<language>/<url> will work. As of yet I haven't encountered any major problems with this hack, but that's not to say there aren't any ;)

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http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx:yyyyy
Where xxxxx is a hash of the URL and yyyyy is the address itself.
You can access the cache of specific URL by omitting the hash part and simply using the url:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx
For example:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:google.com

This is also possible without editing the url, by searching google for "cache:google.com"

To highlight terms within the cache'd page, add them on to the end of the search query, for example: "cache:google.com news" will highlight the word "News"

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Press Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock all at once and a prompt will appear telling you that you have activated mousekeys, select ok then you can control the mouse with the numpad.

The controls are:
1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 = move the mouse
5 = mouse button click
+ = double click
insert = hold down mouse button
delete = release mouse button (after holding it down with insert)
/, * or - = select which mouse button the above controls will click (left, both or right respectively)
numlock = disable mousekeys

]]> http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/how-to-control-the-mouse-pointer-without-a-mouse-in-windows-xp/feed/ 0 Use Google to define words http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/use-google-to-define-words/ http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/use-google-to-define-words/#comments Mon, 01 May 2006 02:28:17 +0000 Steven http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/use-google-to-define-words/ You can use google to find definitions of words rather than looking them up in an online dictionary.
To do this, search for "define:" followed by the word (without quotes) you want to find the meaning of.
For example: "define:potato".

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F:\>tasklist

Image Name               PID Session Name     Session#    Mem Usage
===================== ====== ================ ======== ============
System Idle Process        0 Console                 0         16 K
System                     4 Console                 0         52 K
smss.exe                 592 Console                 0        108 K
csrss.exe                648 Console                 0      5,868 K
winlogon.exe             680 Console                 0      2,632 K
services.exe             724 Console                 0      2,376 K
(...)
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When you know the name of the image to stop:
taskkill /IM notepad.exe
Or when you know the process ID, eg 784:
taskkill /PID 784
For more usage variants, type taskkill /?

NB: some of this information about what processes are running can be obtained by the tasklist command.

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You can do this by using the site: command in your search, for example:

  • java site:sun.com - searches for java on sites with the domain name sun.com (this includes subdomains, like java.sun.com)
  • java site:java.sun.com - more specific; searches for java on sites with the domain name java.sun.com.
  • copyright site:gov - searches all US government sites (domain names ending in .gov) for the term copyright.
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]]> http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/google-currency-conversion/feed/ 0 Save Embedded Media and Other Files in Firefox http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/save-embedded-media-and-other-files-in-firefox/ http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/save-embedded-media-and-other-files-in-firefox/#comments Mon, 01 May 2006 02:13:01 +0000 Steven http://discomoose.org/2006/05/01/save-embedded-media-and-other-files-in-firefox/ There's a Firefox extension that allows you to easily save files which are embedded in a webpage, such as windows media files.

Download Embedded does exactly what it sounds like it does. It adds a right-click context menu entry to download all embedded files on a webpage. Its great for grabbing embedded flash animations, movies, music, etc., and a lot easier than digging through the page source or through Firefox's Page Info.

Download Embedded makes the process simple. My previous technique was to find the URL for the embedded media in the Adblock extension's 'Blockable Items' list.

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google-license-search.png

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