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OpenOffice.org 3.x tricks

1. Styles
You are using the styles dialog (F11 or Format -> Styles and Formatting) to keep all your paragraph/character/page styles straight, right?
2. Headers and footers with text specific to each document section
Say you’re doing the layout for a fiction anthology and you need to have the story name and page number on the recto and […]

qmail + vpopmail + ezmlm + mysql: ezmlm list-making notes

I’ve been setting up nginx, qmail, vpopmail, ezmlm-idx, etc., on my new VPS on slicehost (yay, slicehost!), and figured I’d post my notes in case they’re useful to anyone else, since finding even tiny bits and pieces helped along the way and kept me from tearing my hair out while trying to work out how […]

Installing symfony on Dreamhost using PEAR

I tried to get all of the commands put down in this how-to, so that people of all skill levels could follow the instructions. Be sure to let me know if I missed any or something needs clarified. :) But as usual, use at your own risk, yadda, yadda.