Michael Anthony Heap

Month :: April, 2009

Speeding up your Steam downloads.

I recently reinstalled Windows on my pc, which meant that I had to download all of my games off steam again. I started downloading one, and it capped about 30kb/s, which is a lot lower than it should have been. However, I just left it running overnight and it was installed in the morning. However,…

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Bash-Fu

I use the terminal to navigate and perform actions as much as I can, as I find I can work much more quickly. However, I’m always learning new shortcuts that make my life much easier. This post assumes you’re running your bash prompt in emacs mode. If you’re not sure, then it’s probably in emacs…

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Blockquotes and Cite

Just a quick one today, courtesy of Caius blockquote[cite]:after { display: block; font-style: italic; padding-top: 1em; content: "— " attr(cite); } The above code will take the cite attribute from your blockquotes and place it underneath your quote. Of course, it only works in post IE6 browsers, but it’s a nice little trick we can…

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My Ubuntu Setup – Development

Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope is set for release tomorrow, but I’ve been running the RC for about a week now. So far, so good! I was surprised that my wireless internet was working without me having to do anything this release. I’ve resorted to everything from using ndiswrapper to compiling madwifi from source previously, but…

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