StuffIKnowAboutComputersAndTheWeb > Stuff I Know About Computers And The Web
There's a lot to know about computers and the Web. I do know my own small corner pretty well, here's a bit of what I know that seems really practical at the moment.
OS Stuff
- How to Customize your bash prompt
- Handy bash aliases
- Keeping your bash prompt from wrapping in unfortunate ways
- Setting up SSH with keyfiles
- Starting ssh_agent at login (you still need to ssh_add your key separately)
Web Development
Client-Side
- The secret trick to setting cookies in IE 6
- How to keep relatively-sized fonts the same size in IE and FF
- How to use CSS to make enclosing containers expand to surround their children elements
- Making scrolling divs without horzontal scrollbars that work across browsers
- How to get the noshade effect for <hr>s using css
Server-Side
- htaccess redirects
- Password protection with .htaccess
- Crontab for dummies like me
Office Applications
- Fill blanks with values in Excel
- Conditionally format numbers in Excel
- Make charts that show more than one kind of data in Excel
- How to print headers in Excel
- Turn your Word document into PowerPoint slides
- Turn off automatic reminders on tasks in Outlook
- Bind styles to hotkeys in Word
- Make tables of contents in Word
- Automatically switch styles in Word
- Set hotkeys in Word
- Advanced filtering in Outlook
Developer Applications
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