1. You can’t really crop in Inkscape. :-( But you can change the size of a svg drawing to get some perspective on how large or small the drawing will be after it is exported.
2. Ctrl + Alt + A opens align window in Inkscape.
3. To create Stylish Text with GIMP create a new layer, select a portion of the text to make shiny from original layer, copy and paste selection into new layer and change the color of the pasted portion.
4. This is how good iterative web design goes.
5. Y Combinator is now accepting applications for summer 2007 funding. Aahhh, if only I were confident and had a partner.
6. There are a number of sites that support OpenID. What prevents someone from claiming your site as their own (other than it being against OpenID’s policy)?
7. On the Rails deployment learning front, I discovered that ‘require_dependency…’ lines go in environment.rb and not in the controllers themselves (at least for how my hosting company has things set up).

Use Rubyful Soup to get all of the hyperlinks on a page…

soup = BeautifulSoup.new(page_content)
result = soup.find_all('a')
result.each { |tag| 
  urls[i] = tag['href']
  if urls[i].to_s.slice(0,1) != 'h' then
          #add first part of url to href link if link is internal
          urls[i] = home + urls[i]
  end
  i = i + 1
}

Here are my very own new words. The original challenge was to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

I’ve combined words on some of these; that tends to be funnier.

Depicable: capable of being depicted

Dramastically: drastically dramatic

Incouragable: incapable of being encouraged

Litiginous: indigenous people who are apt to sue

1. HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR SED
2. HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY
3. Linux Shell One-Liners
4. Save time with text editing one-liners: Fast editing examples using cat, ed, and sed
5. One-liners 101: Perl as a command-line utility
6. The one-liners I use the most

My problem

• Had an external hard drive that I used with my MS Windows machine.
• Got a new linux machine.
• External hard drive did not allow linux machine to write to it – because hard drive is NTFS.

How could I write to external hard drive from linux machine without re-formatting the external hard drive?

• Follow this tutorial on How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft

The only instruction I would add to this tutorial is that you must have properly ejected the external hard drive from your Windows machine in order for Edgy to mount the drive.