Jan 28, 2009

Along with my recent Ubuntu upgrade came the Firefox 3 beta, but LibX has not released a version of their extension that works with Firefox 3 yet. If you’re like me, all links lead to JSTOR, and you’re really missing the ease with which LibX allowed you to reload a page through your institution’s proxy. Luckily, this is as easy as adding a bookmark to firefox with the following as the location. If you’re not at UGA, you should replace the text inside the quotation marks with the URL of the proxy you use.

Jan 20, 2009

You can find discussions of Reddit’s “secret” API on a few blogs. Just as interesting, but not discussed on those blogs, is that Reddit will return any page in JSON format if you append .json to the URL. For example:

May 18, 2008

The LibX Firefox extension for the University of Georgia is now available for Firefox 3. You can install it from here.

Mar 9, 2008

I’ve been learning how to use debian-installer’s preseed functionality in order to automate some of the installations we do at Free IT Athens. Among other things, I wanted to set it to use apt-cacher, our caching proxy server for software, and to install some additional packages, including msttcorefonts. Msttcorefonts downloads each font as an exe file, which isn’t in apt-cacher’s whitelist of filetypes to accept. If you try, you’ll receive a 403 error and the message // Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file//. Since apt-cacher is written in perl, this was an easy fix; I modified line 646 to read