A really frustrating issue I had when writing my project report, was that of dealing with source code formatting.

I had created a new style for source code similar to that I use on my blog; a box with a border and coloured background. The problem I was having was when pasting source code into the document. Each line had a paragraph break between itself and the next, which meant that there was a spacing between each. To fix this, I had to insert a manual line break between each line. Luckily I found a shortcut to pull this off, which was Shift + Enter.

Does anyone know of an easier way of pasting in text and using line breaks rather than paragraph breaks?

This semester at University, I’m taking ‘Compiler Design & Techniques’ as a module. The second coursework involves drawing Finite State Machines diagrams that represent regular expressions. Rather than using a word processor to draw these diagrams with a rather untidy look about them, I went in search of a tool that’d help me produce high quality drawings. I’d heard that Latex was good for mathematical diagrams, but that seemed like overkill as I only wanted the diagrams, not a whole new document syntax to learn.

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My group project at University now consists of three smaller projects that provide an overall RSS service. I want to let the guys work on these, while still letting me keep my other coursework jut accessible to me. At the moment, I just have basic http authentication set-up which isn’t so great for pulling off what I want.

Please welcome on stage the Apache2 mod, authz_svn…

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At University, they’ve blocked ports for all IM applications, including IRC. This sucks, because IRC can actually be really helpful for asking for advice on things such as C++ or C. Also, our computing society has an IRC channel (#wmin-compsoc on Quakenet) and it was a real pain that we couldn’t communicate with members at the University.

I’d seen Douglas Bowman’s “how-to” on secure email using SSH tunnelling and thought that perhaps I could use this to get around the problem I was having. And, I’d be right in thinking that.

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