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Last updated: 18 August 2024 (complete changelog since 2016
here.)
Planet Xexyl documents for inhabitants of Earth.
Document history
- 18 Aug 2024
- Add article about circumventing some paywalls (NOT
subscriptions) and forcing creation of accounts in some
websites.
- 14 Apr 2020
- Add solution (source) of the (previously) unexplainable data
file from Make. It was a fun one!
- 11 Apr 2020
- Add new document about GNU Make 'Easter egg' (unexplainable
data file)
- 01 Apr 2020
- Add link to a document on GNU date(1) and related that I
wrote on 11 October 2019
- 13 Oct 2019
- 12 Sep 2019
- Fixes in the included Makefile (with the document on correct
C function prototypes and Makefile dependencies). Now makes use
of make features rather than using loops (for default and clean
targets). Note added about silly file names (file names with
newlines, spaces or anything like that).
- 2017/10/18
- Updated (add disclaimer and warning to an entry) the one line command document.
- 2017/10/15
- Add document 'Disable "legacy status" of Firefox addons
(e.g. NoScript) so they work in Firefox < 57'
- 2017/10/05
- Add document (text file) 'The importance of correct C
function prototypes and Makefile dependencies'.
- 2017/07/01
- Add document 'Using `script' and `tail' to follow a shell
session in real-time' (rewrote portions of it from what I had
before elsewhere).
- 2016/09/30
- 2016/09/17
- Add document 'Rearranging the order of email accounts in Thunderbird (from top down)'.
- 2016/05/31
- Add document 'Purging systemd/journald and its Useless Crap
Once and For All'.
- Confirm VDSL support (in the Uverse Linux static IP
configuration document).
- Formatting and spelling fixes in Thunderbird attachment
reminder document.
- 2016/02/25
- Add document on how to flood-fill transparency in GIMP
- Clean-up several of the documents
- Remove 'mach' document because it was outdated even then (but included
it because I had made use of it temporarily).