Turning off autosave on WordPress (since it hangs)

After upgrading to WordPress 4.7.2, and thought it would be smashing fun, I found my “Publish” button disabled due to a draft being saved forever. There have been many complaints about this all over the web. I didn’t manage to find a solution to this problem, just a workaround: Disable autosaving altogether. This is a [...]

Making a mirror of a WordPress blog on my own computer

This is a note to self on how to create a mirror copy of this blog on my own computer. My own peculiar methods are all over. Create a virtual host on my apache httpd server (port 99) Uncompress the site’s entire public_html directory into the virtual host site’s root directory (that’slazy, I got a [...]

Manual wireless setting on Fedora 12

What’s this? This is a note for myself, in case I need a quick replacement for my ADSL connection on the desktop computer (Fedora 12, and oldie). It may seem paradoxical that I’ll read this in order to access the internet (…), but this is probably where I would look first. With my cellphone, which [...]

Script for fixing a lot of git tags

I needed to update a lot of releases, each designated by a tag, with a single fix, which took the form of a commit. This commit was marked with the tag “this”. #!/bin/bash for i in $(git tag | grep 2.0) ; do git checkout $i git cherry-pick this git tag -d $i git tag [...]

Raspberry Pi 3 notes

These are messy, random notes that I took while setting up my little Raspberry Pi 3. Odds are that by the time you read this, I’ve replaced it with a mini-PC. So if you ask a question, my answer will probably be “I don’t remember”. Even though the Pi is cool, it didn’t supply what [...]

Vivado: Finding the “maximal frequency” after synthesis

Motivation Somewhere at the bottom of ISE’s xst synthesizer’s report, it says what the maximal frequency is, along with an outline the slowest path. This is a rather nice feature, in particular when attempting to optimize a specific module. There is no such figure given after a regular Vivado synthesis, possibly because the guys at [...]